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Somebody I know is trying to lose weight but can't do it while still on antipsychotics. They say the weight might come off a bit then just stall at a certain weight despite continued calorie restriction.
Is this typical for antipsychotics? Why, is it a side effect or what? (How is it even possible that calorie restriction wouldn't work?) What is your experience (while still on them)? Last edited by Jellyfish18; Oct 11, 2019 at 09:00 AM.. |
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Antipsychotics are a pain and usually cause weight gain. I'm trying to stay weight neutral after gaining a lot of weight on antipsychotics and that is hard enough.
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This is typical imo....but too much calorie restriction causes your body to enter starvation mode so weight loss is incredibly slow. The mechanism for APs is a change in the microbial flora to a weight gain flora and no probiotics won’t help, but prebiotic might. I do best on a mostly vegetarian diet.
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Which one are you on?
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I was on abilify and lost all the weight i gained on olzanapine. But I wish to sleep more then 4hours a night so I went back on olzanapine. I figured there is no happy medium but a lot of meds out there not just APs cause weight gain. If science was to make drugs more weight neutral maybe more people would sponsor this.
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