Feeling a little grumpier

Dezi · 09-03-2005, 05:27 AM

I have been on phen for a week and half. I do feel like I have more energy and I don't feel hungrier. But I feel like i have more mood swings. I feel like I'm losing my patience with my 2 yr. old faster. I don't know if thats the phen. or that i am so worried that this too wont work like all the other things that I have tried that I'm moodier. I think it's working I lost a few pounds. I just don't want to be so obsessed about this weight thing and I feel like I am. I am constantly thinking about eating to much or even to little now that I am never hungary. Even when I eat all the right things I feel guilty. This doesn't make any sense. I just want to quite being so self consious about myself. I'm about 20-25 lbs from where I what to be which is not as much as I used to be. I hear those bigger women that have so much confidence and love who they are and I wish I could be like that. I mean I like who I am as a person inside just not my body. Mabey i should be writing Dr. Phil... :smile: I just need to not let stuff irritate me so much. Whats everybody been eating like. I never want to eat.

**Eva** · 09-04-2005, 03:54 AM

Phen makes me bitchy. It also makes me anal retentive at home . . . everything has to be perfect!

Don't be too hard on the little one . . . they only stay little for so long. Mine just started kindergarten - it's heartbreaking!
:(

Get some really sweat-inducing cardio in . . . it sounds like you have some steam to blow off & it'll help with the weightloss!

{{{hugs}}}

Dezi · 09-05-2005, 01:50 AM

Atleast I know I'm not the only one. I do find that I am less irritated if I do get a good work out in than when I don't. I just have to try a little harder at not letting things get to me because I don't want to take it out on my son. Because that wouldn't make any kind of weight lose worth it.

I think i will cry when Gavin goes to school. :-(

**maymay** · 09-05-2005, 05:43 AM

Yeah I get the mood swings too. I've yelled at my mom and I get irritated more with people. And if someone yells at me or I do something at work that I'm not supposed to do, my whole day is ruined and I just wanted to cry, and I don't feel better until I do cry. That's one of the things I can't stand about phen and I can't wait til I'm finished. On the plus side I've lost 34 pounds though. If you get to overloaded with your little one can someone watch him for a couple of hours why you destress?

Dezi · 09-06-2005, 02:36 PM

How long did it take you to lose that weight? I have been on it 2 weeks now and I've lost 5 pounds. It is helping my work out longer though so that is good. ive heard that you should stay on it for about 3 weeks to a month and then go off it for about a week so not to grow a tolorence to it. what do you guys do?

**maymay** · 09-07-2005, 04:35 AM

I started taking it June 9th. Mine was prescribed by a dr for only 3 months. The next time they will prescribe it for me is in about 6 - 12 months. I don't remember what the paper said. They only prescribe it for 3 months at a time because they don't know the long term effects of the drug.

Dezi · 09-08-2005, 05:48 AM

What else did you do to help you lose that much weight if you don't mind me asking? How did you eat and excerise? Have you reached your weight goals yet?

**maymay** · 09-08-2005, 07:05 AM

For breakfast I have special k with strawberries with light soy milk and yoplait yogurt. Those new 100 calories snacks like the wheat thins, ritz mix, fruit snacks, I will have as a snack. For lunch I would have a lean cuisine and a salad with some fruit. I've been making sandwhiches too. Or if I just have a salad I add the already cooked and cut chicken to it. Lately for dinner I have been eating half a chicken breast and half a sweet potato. I just watch the calories. To get the phen I had to take a class and one of the things that I learned and really follow is the 3 gram rule. For 100 calories there should be 3 grams of fat. That has been really helpful. For exercise some nights I will go for a walk, but I mostly go to the gym and do a step class or ab attack(30 min of abs). I have a body bar at home so I do some weights at home. I have cut back on some of my workouts because I went back to school. As for reaching my goal weight I am far from it. I'm 5'1 so my average weight is around 105 - 115 I think. And right now I'm around 214. I would like to be around 120 - 130. I have quite a ways to go. I definately feel more inspired and determined this time around to lose the weight. Usually I would give up after a couple of months, but this time I feel more confident and motivated.