Originally Posted by Semillion:
“Excuses, excuses, excuses. If you are taking medication that affects your metabolism then you adjust your eating and your activity to counter it. That is not rocket science. As for your reasoning for why so many women are fat these days...please. Being so frenetic they have no excuse for being fat! if you are fat it is your fault - end of!”
Medication can change your metabolism, it can take months to adjust or to even realise you have gained weight or why, because you haven't change the way you eat, all that has changed is the pill you take. If you are taking an anti-depressant, you have bigger issues than your weight at that point, your body, your mind, your nervous system all have to adjust, you may become unstable, even suicidal and have no appetite at all, yet you still find you gain weight. It creeps on too and suddenly your clothes don't fit, which then messed further with your head. It is also very, very, hard to lose, even if it is only two stone and you diet, exercise and adjust. It is a well known medical side affect.
Being frantic does not mean more active, it can be a job which is mostly at a desk and driving to pick up the kids from school at the end of the day, getting them feed, bathed, homework done and into bed between 5.30 and 8.00 in the evening. It could be a teaching job with is long hour marking, after a day at school and putting your own children to bad.
You seem to lack the empathy and imagination to understand people, just like Katie. She seems to think that fat people just sit there and stuff themselves, they don't it can take a long time for the weight to creep on, not a few weeks.