The feeling of health…the full-noon trill…the song of me rising from the bed and meeting the sun.
— Walt Whitman
Some times you just have to let the stress go, relax into yourself, be who you are and meet the sun with grace!
Is your Medicine Making you Fat? A headline of a article on O today...yeah you think????
"The best way to preserve your shape is to monitor yourself closely.
"Anytime you start a new therapy, weigh yourself every morning," says
George Blackburn, MD, PhD, associate director of the division of
nutrition at Harvard Medical School, where he teaches a course that
includes a section on drugs and weight gain. "Five pounds is your red
flag to check with a physician." Act sooner if you suddenly feel
excessively hungry or lethargic. You may have the option of changing
prescriptions. "Increasingly, drugs linked to weight problems are being
replaced with second-generation alternatives," Blackburn explains. Some
are so new that your family physician may not be aware of them, so
consider seeing a specialist. A doctor who's trained to treat your
specific problem, or at least an internist or an endocrinologist with
an interest in obesity issues, will be up on the latest treatments.
In some cases, switching drugs—or readjusting the dosage—isn't an
option. But according to Blackburn, eating 100 to 200 fewer calories
each day is enough to counteract the kind of weight gain you'd
experience on most drugs, especially if you increase your exercise.
Below, the drugs most likely to tip the scale and what you can do about
it."
Its a merry go round I am staying off of now...still waiting to hear back from my thyroid test to see if it is too high like I think it is...but loosing the weight after meds is a HARD and frustrating thing! This week I am starting to feel some relief! AND people are noticing that I am loosing some! That is a good feeling! Yeah!
