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Emotional Eating (Expert Forum)
Wanting to lose weight
Answered by
Roger Gould, M.D. - Mental Health, Wellness
Questions in the Emotional Eating forum are answered by Dr. Roger Gould. Topics covered include anger and eating, anxiety and eating, binge eating, depression and eating, eating to "fit in", emotional eating, fill the void eating, guilt and eating, loneliness and eating, social eating, and stress and eating.
Wanting to lose weight
by MaliaGrl09, Feb 03, 2008 07:02PM
I'm on Celexa 20mg and Geodon 120mg to manage my bipolar illness. However, my weight is 131 at 5'1" and I can't seem to shed off the pounds. I exercise at least 5 times a week with a jog of 30-45 minutes. I don't feel like I'm eating too much, but maybe I am. My normal weight would be around 115. How do I approach my doctor about my weight concerns when he's worked so hard to stabilize me of my bipolar illness?
Doctor's Answer
by Roger Gould, M.D., Feb 04, 2008 03:37PM
, Feb 04, 2008 03:37PMTo: Malia
Those medications usually stimulate weight gain by stimulating your appetite so you eat more. You should look very closely at your intake of food. Exercising is great, but the few hundred calories you consume each day of exercise can easily be offset by a careless cookie, or one second portion. the key to weight control in on the intake side because you can offset all your physical exercise so quickly and so easily. Also, because you are bipolar, you may be using food as an auxillary and supplementary medication to handle feelings you are not sure you can handle...Learn more about emotional eating....I would do all of that before asking your doctor for anything new.
