This drug cause similar problems with me. It makes you crave carbs. The best bet is to make a diet plan for a whole day with a maximum number of calories you need to maintain your current weight and don’t exceed that number. There are lots of calculators on the web that will tell you how many calories that is. Choose a lot of vegtables, whole grain, and fruit since they are low in calories and have lots of fiber which takes longer to digest which will slow down you hunger. It is possible to stuff you face with as much food as you can eat and do it in a healthy way. After a year of me doing this I lost 50lbs. and no longer crave the old junk I used to eat. Exercise like jogging or bike riding can burn big time calories, but I am too lazy to do that. You might not be though. Good Luck!
Push away from the table. Elavil is one of the old tricyclic antidepressants. They have nasty side effects. They also are very dangerous in overdosage. You are far better off with Prozac (fluoxetine). Prozac is well proven, and one of the safest antidepressants. No chemical is going to cure your depression all by itself. It is just a help. You need to take hold of the reigns of your life and strive to correct some things. Go to your library and check out the book, Listening to Prozac, by the psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Kramer. He is a psychoanalyst who seldom prescribed medication, but even he, was struck hard by the number of patients who benefited from prozac.
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This drug cause similar problems with me. It makes you crave carbs. The best bet is to make a diet plan for a whole day with a maximum number of calories you need to maintain your current weight and don’t exceed that number. There are lots of calculators on the web that will tell you how many calories that is. Choose a lot of vegtables, whole grain, and fruit since they are low in calories and have lots of fiber which takes longer to digest which will slow down you hunger. It is possible to stuff you face with as much food as you can eat and do it in a healthy way. After a year of me doing this I lost 50lbs. and no longer crave the old junk I used to eat. Exercise like jogging or bike riding can burn big time calories, but I am too lazy to do that. You might not be though. Good Luck!
Push away from the table. Elavil is one of the old tricyclic antidepressants. They have nasty side effects. They also are very dangerous in overdosage. You are far better off with Prozac (fluoxetine). Prozac is well proven, and one of the safest antidepressants. No chemical is going to cure your depression all by itself. It is just a help. You need to take hold of the reigns of your life and strive to correct some things. Go to your library and check out the book, Listening to Prozac, by the psychiatrist, Dr. Peter Kramer. He is a psychoanalyst who seldom prescribed medication, but even he, was struck hard by the number of patients who benefited from prozac.