Hey everyone, I'm new to this and wanted to say to all of you that I've been reading your stories and I just admire you all. I hope I can become as successful! I guess I should start from the beginning with my weight story huh? Well i was always chubby as a kid, but when I was about 11 it slowly crept up as we'd just moved, I was shy and didn't really like going out anymore. Once I turned 15 I was 140 pounds. I was disgusted with myself and started self-harming. I then stopped eating and became anorexic. My lowest weight being 98lbs. Eventually my friends intervened and my weight eventually became a healthy 133lbs. I stayed at that weight for a while but went on the contraceptive pill and it gradually started creeping up. It has just been going up and up since. Last year I was diagnosed with depression and have been on medication since then. Although I feel slightly better in myself in other areas, my weight gain has just sent me down again. I have size 6 (UK) trousers in my wardrobe and I don't know why I kept them. Maybe as a constant reminder of what I used to be. But now I know I need to change. I've been with my boyfriend for 3 years now and we will be getting married within a few years and unless I do something about it now, my weight will keep going up.

Phew that was a lot to get off my chest! Anyway...I go to the gym and I don't eat junk food. I have been doing this for the past 2 months and havent lost anything. Infact I gained 6 pounds and it's definitely not muscle. An average day I will eat a bowl of cereal in the morning, toast for lunch and for dinner it changes but they all involve vegetables of some sort. I don't know what I'm doing wrong so was hoping you could share with me your situations and how you manage to lose weight? I do realise that because I was anorexic my metabolism has slowed down as that always happens, and when you recover that is how you gain weight more easily. So do I need to speed up my metabolism perhaps? Any kind of advice would be nice! Thanks everyone and good luck to you all!

sorry just to add the medication is citalopram and as ive read on here some ppl seem to gain weight with it. im not sure how many pounds ive gained on it as iv been on it for about 5 months now. fluoxetine made my weight shoot right up. but with citalopram probably fluctuated between 4 and 9 pounds i guess

Hi and welcome to 3FC.

Good luck with your goals.

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Michelle

Joranha There are many different threads on this site to help you out, good luck with your plan.

Hello, Joranha, and welcome to the forums. So glad you joined.

thanks everyone! this forum is so friendly i know il get the support i need