Antidepressant Weight Gain and How to
Lose It
Below, you will be able to read selected text by a lecture
given by James Harper, the author of the bestselling book, Lose the Weight Gain
Caused by Antidepressants.
Lose the Weight Gain Caused by Antidepressants has
out sold The South Beach Diet book as well as most other popular diet books.
Why? The information found in the book works if you are taking an
antidepressant, are off an antidepressant or have never used an antidepressant
and need to lose weight.
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Start of lecture (partial)
"Let me begin by saying, losing the weight gain that has been
caused by antidepressants is not an easy task. I like to use the phrase, trial
and success, in finding what will work for each individual.
I do say each individual. As most of us will admit, we are
all different, that simple phrase seems to get lost when we are talking about
weight gain or weight loss. When you throw antidepressants into the equation,
you really have a uniqueness to each individual.
What did the antidepressant change? Is the antidepressant
making hormones overwork or is the antidepressant suppressing one or more
hormones? Is the antidepressant moving a person toward being a diabetic or has
the antidepressant altered the adrenal, cortisol the hormone ACTH or any number
of things?
What can you safely do if the person is still taking an
antidepressant and they need to lose weight?
Antidepressants cause an altering of a balance mechanism used
in our body and this starts the spiral down or maybe better said the increase of
weight almost overnight.
Antidepressant weight gain was overlooked by the medical
community until recent years and was aggressively denied until recently.
Finally, the side effect warning labels on antidepressants acknowledge weight
gain as a side effect.
Many people would lose weight when they started taking an
antidepressant but then, out of the blue, bam. Weight gain would not only start
but the weight gain would be 10 to 20 pounds a month. Diet and exercise would
not stop the unexplained weight gain. Doctors would tell their patients “you
must be hitting the candy rack at the store.
Your patient may now be gluten intolerant, lactose intolerant
or intolerant to everything and everyone. Understandable! Tough enough when you
suddenly gain those extra pounds but when others think you are hitting the
fridge after everyone is asleep and you are being accused of lying about your
food intake, it is disheartening.
So, when you have a patient tell you they are not hitting the
fridge late at night and they tell you they have not changed their diet, believe
them.
During the past ten years I received hundreds of thousands of
e-mails from people taking an antidepressant. Categorizing the data found in the
e-mails, researching existing clinical trials, tabulating the results and
working directly with people trying to lose the antidepressant weight gain has
led to specific conclusions and applicable data.
There are some things a person can do if they are still
taking an antidepressant or if they are already off the antidepressant. I want
to emphasize again, this is trial and success. This is not a one size fits all."
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