I'm in the USA for the weekend for a festival. At least no one knows me here so I don't feel as self conscious as I am in Montreal. Everywhere I look it seems like there are at people here!

Thanks...

I can't help but feel like a beached whale. When I got home today I had to unzip my pants and take off my bra, I was painfully uncomfortable. I have red marks on my belly and chest from the elastics.

My partner suffers from severe depression and chronic pain so as much as he loves me I don't feel like it's OK to lean on him.

My social worker came to my last doctor's appointment, she's helping me a lot lately but I feel guilty for taking so much of her time... She even picks me up and drives me back home afterwards.

At least my doctor saw me for more than 10 minutes and was a lot more empathic than last time. I was crying my eyes out and he didn't even offer me a kleenex.

I'm involuntarily getting fatter on Vyvanse which is similar to Ritalin.

Most people lose weight on these drugs, but I had to be the exception to the rule...

In my case the appetite suppression is such that I forget to eat during the day.

At night I get ravenous and I wake up multiple times to binge on fatty/sugary foods... I can't control myself at all.

I will check out your link.

It says > 25 is too high for a woman, this year it was 27 in March, 30 in July and 33 in October...

A high prolactin can also make you gain weight. I'm freaking out.

My doctor doesn't seem worried about my elevated prolactin even though if all my dresses and tops are getting really tight in the chest.

At 140 lbs my boobs are already as big as they were at my highest weight (180+ lbs)!

I felt so invalidated I couldn't stop crying at the last appointment. He prescribed another blood test for my vitamin D and calcium because both were a little low last time.

I had to insist +++ for him to add a prolactinemia and PTH (which also was elevated and could mean I have osteoporosis... but he won't check my bone density).

Not really, as I'm lazy and hate exercising, to me it feels like punishment for being fat. 😪

I wanted to start taking walks more often, but I live in Quebec and I hate walking in the cold and snow...

You can decrease your set point with a prolonged low calorie diet? 🤯 I thought it had the opposite effect!

I had been restricting my food intake significantly for the last few years and avoiding most carbohydrates: I never ate pasta or potatoes, very rarely allowed myself to have dessert/sweets (except some dark chocolate), bread, rice, granola...

This is how I had managed to maintain my weight at 100-120 lbs.

Since my dad died I think I've been eating my emotions more than I like to admit.

My psychiatrist was worried I'd lose
too much weight on the Vyvanse he prescribed to me for my ADHD but I actually GAINED weight because it reduces my appetite so much during the day I forget to eat... and wake up multiple times at night and binge on fatty (a chunk of cheese, peanuts/nuts including butters spooned straight from the jar) or sugary (candy, dulcey and white chocolate, sweet banana chips) foods.

Even during the day I've allowed myself to eat muffins and sweets more often (there's this coffee shop where they have pistachio chocolate croissants 🥐... those are SO good it's ridiculous).

It's like I have no self control anymore.

When I stepped on the scale and saw I was up to 139 lbs, I tried to bully myself into dieting but it backfired on me and I end up stress eating even more. 😩

Similar situation here, but due to anorexia. I've lost 30 lbs at 15, went up to 180+ lbs.

I eventually stopped weighting myself so I don't know just how fat I got, but I was around that weight when I had my relapse at 35 and lost 90 lbs.

I'm already up at least 50 lbs from my lowest weight, but most of that gain happened in the last months since my dad passed and I had a lot of stressful events happen one after the other.

I hope my set point hasn't increased, but the way I've been gaining lately I'm terrified I'll overshoot my highest weight (I'm not sure if that was my set point because I was still gaining about 4 lbs a year every year, but because I was trying to restrict calories and avoid junk foods I was constantly grazing and would binge on sweets).

Same here! After "just" a 20 lbs (might be more by now, as I've been avoiding the scale for the last few weeks), I find it's harder to get my Dr Martens boots tied up without sitting. I'm getting a bit out of balance and find it very unsettling.

My thighs were already large to being with, even at a much lower weight, because I've been obese for most of my adult life and my skin seems irremediably stretched.

My legs are already almost as large as the were when I was obese (I know because I've had to measure my calves to buy compression socks), so I hope the fat will stop accumulating there soon otherwise I'll be even more bottom heavy than at my highest weight and I don't know if I'll be able to find pants.

It was already really hard to find any in the past because my waist was much smaller than my legs.

When I went to a thrift store to find jeans that fit, I found I was actually getting sweaty just from trying on the pants! At least I'm not getting out of breath yet, but be a weird feeling...

OK, I hope I'm not one of these disliked people. I'll know to check next time.