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most of my life it was effortless for me to stay skinny - it actually took effort not to be underweight. then I started a medication. initially my BMI was 22 bu
by sterlind 4y ago
most of my life it was effortless for me to stay skinny - it actually took effort not to be underweight. then I started a medication. initially my BMI was 22 but it shot up to 28. I developed a terrible sweet tooth and binged on carbs, insatiably.
I quit the medication and promptly went back to 22. no willpower involved.
I'm sorry you have to struggle against your body. your body makes it a fight requiring massive willpower, mine doesn't - it's just down to genes or something.
- SpeedilyDamage 4y ago> I developed a terrible sweet tooth and binged on carbs, insatiably. This sentence is the problem; you didn’t “develop a sweet tooth” like you grow a tumor, you out sweet things in your mouth by choice. You had agency, you made that decision. Stop avoiding your role in your weight, stop pretending someone else was in control of your decisions. It was you, you did this to yourself.
- sterlind 4y agoI'm not sure if you read my post, but I lost the weight I gained and got back to a BMI of 22 just by going off of the med I was on. The med caused cravings and lack of satiety. Going off the med reversed the cravings. This demonstrates that cravings are biological and not caused by a lack of self-control, because I didn't need self-control before or after, and I didn't have the self-control to avoid gaining weight while taking the medicine. Craving sweets is a well-documented side effect of mirtazapine, I'm not sure why you're having trouble accepting that.
- SpeedilyDamage 4y agoCraving != acting on craving, is my point. That's what willpower can be used for.
- CadmiumYellow 4y agoJust out of curiosity, what was the medication?
- sterlind 4y agoMirtazapine.