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Aoife · 06-23-2009, 09:18 PM

hmm, I guess I'm not sure what you're asking.
I figure if you track what you eat and keep your activity (outside of exercise) up, and track your weight trend, you'll get an idea what your body does and adjust from there, same as with anyone else, for the most part. I mean, unless the medicine contains calories that you need to track… you'll just have to see how much it affects what "should" be a deficit and adjust if needed.

I guess there's a number of ways crap can mess with your system… I mean I certainly don't know much about mystery weight gain from meds without any activity/dietary changes, but it still seems to me that at least to start you'll be just seeing where everything falls and adjust. I guess macro balance might could help some, but I don't know nearly enough about this kind of thing to know how, if at all.

But so, you've been on this… and the med is not the new thing in your life, right? Hmm… wouldn't most weight gaining side effects be within the first bit of time using something?

I mean, if it has a prolonged effect of making you KEEP the weight as well… then you may find you're not gonna end up like Twiggy without going off it… but…

06-23-2009, 09:18 PM	#2 (permalink)
Aoife ninjamonkeyqueen Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: City of Dis Posts: 6,540	hmm, I guess I'm not sure what you're asking. I figure if you track what you eat and keep your activity (outside of exercise) up, and track your weight trend, you'll get an idea what your body does and adjust from there, same as with anyone else, for the most part. I mean, unless the medicine contains calories that you need to track… you'll just have to see how much it affects what "should" be a deficit and adjust if needed. I guess there's a number of ways crap can mess with your system… I mean I certainly don't know much about mystery weight gain from meds without any activity/dietary changes, but it still seems to me that at least to start you'll be just seeing where everything falls and adjust. I guess macro balance might could help some, but I don't know nearly enough about this kind of thing to know how, if at all. But so, you've been on this… and the med is not the new thing in your life, right? Hmm… wouldn't most weight gaining side effects be within the first bit of time using something? I mean, if it has a prolonged effect of making you KEEP the weight as well… then you may find you're not gonna end up like Twiggy without going off it… but… __________________ My Etsy Fe Chick Apparel tumble log Aoife in Wonderland Werkit.com - Providing the most stylish training logs you've ever seen, while retaining all the function you need. Oh yeah!