Hilarious
 

I made my first posts this morning in the Depression forum. That's been an issue with me since uhm puberty. The weight has stacked on since I got married :love: 9 years ago. I was a size 8 then & am now a size 16, not great when you consider I'm 5'1". Anyway, I decided I better do something about it since I went into the regular doc's office & couldn't ignore that my BMI has crossed over from overweight to obese.

Today I went to a new psychiatrist. He thinks I have undiagnosed ADD. So, he is prescribing Ritalin. Then he says, "make sure you eat breakfast so you don't lose too much weight." :rofl:

Then he has me get on the scale & measures my waist at 38 inches. And he says the diet he's putting me on is no sugar & low carbs. :nono:

... I dont get it.

I know how lame it is to explain a joke, but do you want to loose too much weight?

huh, weird. You think he'd address the "losing to much weight" problem when you were closer to your goal, but I guess he has a point. Some of the add medications can change the way you think about things, so it might be easy for you to just "let yourself go" (but the opposite way- into too thinness)

That's a strange comment. Plus, eating breakfast actually *helps* people lose weight, by making it less likely that they'll skip meals and overeat earlier in the day. So he's giving good advice, but dude, totally wrong rationale...

I went to the shrink for my depression/bipolar/mental health issues. I have been on many different meds & they help but I think I have memory problems because of them. There are other side effects but that's what I'm worried about most. My previous doc left the practice so I go see this guy today. I never say anything about feeling fat. He starts prescribing Ritalin, then says the lose too much weight bit. As if!

If I can feel more focused at work & the side effect is that I drop the excess luggage, well that's great. I have never had a shrink measure my height, weight, waist & ask my blood pressure, which I only know because I just went to the Gyn yesterday. Losing excess poundage is a far better side effect than losing hair, dizziness or fatigue.