Trying yet again...
During the long drive home from Memphis after a gig, Mark and I talked long and long about a great many things. After hearing my tales of repeatedly failing after having some sort of significant weight loss (invariably due to depression jumping up and biting me on the ass), he advised me to get a prescription for an antidepressant before I try anything else with regards to my weight and health.
So I did. I'm on Wellbutrin now, and it's alarming how it's mellowed me out. I'm not numb, not at all; I'm just... not out of control, with regards to anger and depression.
Since that is working, I decided to give my Kilgore Hardcore Atkins another whirl, having lost about 130 lbs. in six months many years ago. In one week I've lost twenty pounds, dropping from 548 (in work attire and boots, all of which adds ten pounds) to 528 in boots.
Between not being depressed all the time (and therefore not comfort eating) and what seems to be a possible slight suppression of my appetite, I've gotten even better results this week than ever I did before.
Let us all hope that, with the aid of the Wellbutrin, the coming winter does not find be again besieged by seasonal affective disorder, and MAYBE I can keep up my momentum, stay alive for my wife and family, and be a lean, mean, rock and roll ass-kicking machine out on the road.
So I did. I'm on Wellbutrin now, and it's alarming how it's mellowed me out. I'm not numb, not at all; I'm just... not out of control, with regards to anger and depression.
Since that is working, I decided to give my Kilgore Hardcore Atkins another whirl, having lost about 130 lbs. in six months many years ago. In one week I've lost twenty pounds, dropping from 548 (in work attire and boots, all of which adds ten pounds) to 528 in boots.
Between not being depressed all the time (and therefore not comfort eating) and what seems to be a possible slight suppression of my appetite, I've gotten even better results this week than ever I did before.
Let us all hope that, with the aid of the Wellbutrin, the coming winter does not find be again besieged by seasonal affective disorder, and MAYBE I can keep up my momentum, stay alive for my wife and family, and be a lean, mean, rock and roll ass-kicking machine out on the road.