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Anna19 New Member
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I have been using myfitnesspal to track calorie intake. It tells me that I need to eat 1360 calories a day. My problem is that I cannot do that. I am taking an antidepressant and it really curbs my appetite. I am eating about 1100 calories a day. I walk almost every day and also am doing some arm curls. I am losing about a pound every two or three weeks. I am at a loss as what to do. |
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Nir Senior Administrator 
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What are your stats (age, height, weight)? what is the name of the pill you are taking? |
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Anna19 New Member
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65 years old, 5'7" 196 pounds. |
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Nir Senior Administrator
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Our RMR calculator suggests your body requires 1760 calories to maintain its current weight, so you should be successful with what you are doing. Are you confident with the accuracy of the calorie counting? Have you tried using a search engine and typing the anti-depressant to see if weight-gain is a common side effect? |
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Anna19 New Member
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The medication is causing me not to be able to eat. Myfitnesspal.com says I need 1360 calories a day. I am not eating that. I am wondering if I am in starvation mode. How does one know? I am having no side effects from not eating all the calories. I am pretty confident my calories are being counted correctly. |
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Nir Senior Administrator
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I have mentioned that I used our own RMR calculator. If you investigate it further you see that we actually publish the formula that we use. It is a bit difficult to do that with an 'opaque' website if they are not transparent about how they do calculations. If your body requires 1760 to maintain its current weight and you are eating 1100, then you are creating a deficit of 660. You can also look at it as a fraction or a percentage 660/1760 = 37.5% which is quite a large deficit. Various experts believe that smaller deficits (15% 20% 25%) work better and for a longer time. Whenever we eat at a deficit (and this applies to everyone) our metabolic rate adjusts somewhat to the deficit condition. The effect is almost always temporary. The only things that can be done are not be in a deficit, or implement some sort of calorie-cycling scheme. Anyhow just because your drug is suppressing your appetite, it does not mean that it is also not known as a cause for weight gain. As you have been shy about saying what you are taking, I trust that you are at least taking responsible for learning about it yourself. Google is a good starting point. |
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Anna19 New Member
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Thank you for your information. I am taking 150 mg of generic Wellbutrin daily. I am trying too increase my metabolism by walking more but this is so discouraging. I am about to give up and just eat what I want. I never have sodas, do not add sugar to anything, watch my sodium intake, rarely eat red meat, eat only whole wheat bread or rye, 1% milk, do not eat junk food. I do not know what more I can do. You would think I would be losing at least a pound a week but it is more like a pound a month! |
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Nir Senior Administrator
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I used to eat junk food, and I had gone through the type of eating that you are describing, and well actually these days my eating is even more careful than that: And if you are able to, I recommend you get the book "Eat To Live" by Dr Joel Fuhrman and read it for yourself. (my quick internet search on Wellbutrin was inconclusive, with some anecdotal stories of people losing weight, 5 million hits for 'loss' vs 2 million for 'gain' so I guess it isn't the issue) |
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Anna19 New Member
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Thank you. I will get the book. |
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