{"id":55958,"date":"2018-12-03T07:15:59","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T15:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=55958"},"modified":"2018-12-01T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T19:17:03","slug":"positive-thinking-positive-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=55958","title":{"rendered":"Positive Thinking, Positive Change"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wanted to give an update about a post I wrote about medications and weight<\/a><\/strong><\/span> over the summer. Read that post for the background but the cliff notes version: I gained 10 pounds on a medication this summer.<\/p>\n

I had a choice to make, try a different medication, or just keep going with prozac, which was working very well for my anxiety. I decided to give the buspar a chance per my doctor. I stopped the prozac and switched to the other one. Right off the bat, I was not a fan. It did absolutely nothing for my anxiety. I gave it over a month, waiting with white knuckles for it to finally kick in and start working…and nothing.<\/p>\n

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I was even having occasional panic attacks, which was not traditionally a component of my anxiety. So that was fun! I talked to my doctor and he increased the dosage. Within a few days of that, I started having really awful side effects. The biggest one was heart palpitations. Like constantly. It took me a few days to realize that the never ending heart palpitations might be because of the meds. I googled it and sure enough, “if you have this side effect, call your doctor immediately”. YAY! \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

So I stopped the buspar immediately and within a day or so the side effects were better and mostly gone. That’s the good news. The bad news? I was still in the same boat as I was before.<\/p>\n

I went back on a low dose of the prozac and I am trying to manage my anxiety with mindfulness and a relaxation app I downloaded. The one I usually use is Breathe2Relax<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>I also use the Oak<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>app. I like them and they work pretty well when I’m in the middle of an anxiety attack.<\/p>\n

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As for the weight I gained this summer…I am making good choices to lose it.<\/p>\n

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  1. No candy\/dessert (which has been very hard with all the Halloween candy that’s EVERYWHERE!) but I am doing well with that so far.<\/li>\n
  2. No alcohol Monday-Thursday and on Friday\/Saturday nights I can have 1 drink (instead of my usual 2).<\/li>\n
  3. Reminding myself it’s ok to be hungry sometimes.<\/li>\n
  4. Taking the stairs at work. I go up and down between several floors multiple times a day and I’ve started using the stairs instead. It’s the little things that add up.<\/li>\n
  5. I’m still working out my normal 5 days a week with 2 rest days.<\/li>\n
  6. I’m counting my calories still but I am trying to actually create a deficit instead of eating back all of the calories in the gym.<\/li>\n
  7. Weighing myself once a week. When I was in maintenance mode I was weighing once a month, or even less. If my clothes got tight, then I’d weigh myself, but I basically stuck at the same place.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The first week I lost almost 2 pounds<\/strong>. The second week I lost another pound. Over that weekend I wasn’t feeling 100% so I skipped drinking for the most part. I also didn’t have much of an appetite, so I think that helped jump start things.<\/p>\n

    As far as the mental aspect, I am doing well. My anxiety is “ok” and I’m feeling super focused on losing the weight. I am finding it easier to resist treats and things that are my downfall, so I think my mind is IN THE GAME on this.<\/p>\n

    Then Thanksgiving weekend hit–pie, wine, carbs…you know the drill. I didn’t weigh myself for 2 weeks and finally got back on the scale. This weekend I weighed myself after taking a few weeks off from the scale and was happy to see a few more pounds gone! I am now down a total of 7 pounds since October! WOOHOO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I will keep you posted on my progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I wanted to give an update about a post I wrote about medications and weight over the summer. Read that post for the background but the cliff notes version: I gained 10 pounds on a medication this summer. I had a choice to make, try a different medication, or just keep going with prozac, which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9835,9834,44,2721,514,84,104,2663,2685,152,154,171,317,318,319,193,194,2777,214,258,295,297,298,3372],"tags":[360,9839,8617,9938,8662,5460,893,9837,9939,8755,8757,8758],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55958"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56023,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55958\/revisions\/56023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}