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 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."

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.

... 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.