My flameful confession.

happ17

When I was younger (17), my mom took me to a doctor to help with my weight. He gave me diet pills (adipex). I lost a lot of weight, and dropped from a size 12/14 to a size 4. I took them for a month and then kept the weight off myself for quite a while. It also gave me a mild case of tachycardia (sporadic rapid heartbeat).

Here?s the horrible part: If I found a doctor willing to prescribe them to me, I?d totally do it again right now.

I was a size 6 when I got married, but that took many hours in the gym every day and very careful, detailed attention to what I eat. It?s just so frustrating because I can?t find time to work out, and it?s sooo hard to eat well when, between everything I have to do at work and at home, I can barely find time to pee, let alone plan my meals.

stacynikki

Yikes...I would too!  I love working out but refuse to give up any of the three hours a night I spend with DS. 

Samantha Thomas

I'd never take diet pills b/c I'm a worry wort about anything like that, but I totally understand what you are saying and feel the same way.  I'm really hard on myself about my weight and the way I look...I always have been

Andrewsgal

If I could find a diet pill that would not hurt DS while I am nursing I would take it in a heartbeat, I would also probably cut my calories down to below 1000 a day if I was not nursing.

camrude

Part of me wishes I had the nerve to take diet pills again - because they seemed to really speed up my weightloss in college.

I did not care about the side affects because they seemed to be working...that's until I passed out on the treadmill and they took my blood pressure and it was dangerously high. I got an asschewing from my dr. about taking them when I fessed up.

karen6784

I am hovering @ 138lbs.  I was 184 at the end of my pregnancy.  Back in the day, when I was 138 I did Atkins and went to 119.  I am 5'5.  I feel fat.  DH doesn't help w/ some of his comments. 

I would take a pill in a heartbeat, if there were no side effects.

fireflymama

If I didn't think diet pills would kill me (I have high blood pressure and fear I'd just explode on diet pills), I'd be popping them all. the time. ?How's that for flameful?!?

Angela814

Andrewsgal:

If I could find a diet pill that would not hurt DS while I am nursing I would take it in a heartbeat, I would also probably cut my calories down to below 1000 a day if I was not nursing.

Now that would be crazy.  I would be starving all day long and just feel horrible.  I already start to feel faint if I get too busy and eat lunch later than usual.  I think I need 2000 calories/day just to function.

I always thought that diet pills were just a scam.  The instructions with them always said to "reduce calorie intake and exercise."  I assumed that was why they worked  - because people were already doing what they were supposed to to lose weight.  Do they really help you lose faster?

august0605bride

I have been getting up at 5 to go to the gym, and it is wonderful. ?I used to go during the day and take the kids, but I recently needed to "find more hours in the day," so I get up in the dark and go myself. ?I am telling you, it has been miraculous for me ?And I take a hot, long shower all by myself. ?MH now does the morning routine before he goes to work.

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happ17

Yes, there are some that work. They?ve basically been outlawed now. These were the same pills that caused major heart issues with people. I mean, I was tachycardic for years afterward.

But it was awesome. I rarely felt hungry, I could eat anything, but got full 2 bites into it. I had tons of energy. I was efficient, focused, I could take on the world. That?s what happens when you?re on speed.

They only prescribe it now to the morbidly obese. I could go online and get them, but I don?t trust those things.

As for the working out, I literally cannot find the time. Well, I can, but then I don?t see DS. I leave the house at 6:45, which is when the nanny shows up. I can?t ask her to come sooner. DH leaves at 5:45. We get home around 6:45 at the earliest. DS goes to bed at 7:30-8. We have dinner, feed the dogs, clean up, get ready for tomorrow, it?s 10:30-11. Wake up and do it all over again. DH works on Saturdays, too.

stcroixbride

any chance of exercise during the workday?  I know, it isn't easy

I got better about my diet by packing lunch and a snack for myself.  I would go to a deli in the morning and get a few hard boiled eggs and some fruit, and keep cereal and a few other snacks at my desk

As for exercise, I typically do it after DD goes to bed at night.  Well, except for the year I was a gym member and would go to a step class once or twice a week after work - I knew I had to FORCE myself to exercise and have it on my schedule or I wouldn't do it.

I know it is hard, but if you are this down on yourself, you need to find ways to be better with diet and exercise in ways that work for YOU.

millerbabe

Get a doctor to prescribe you Adderall or Vyvanse (both are for ADHD/ADD).... it does the same thing.