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I FEEL Fat!

BipolarPrincess
BipolarPrincess
I'm 183 pounds and I am 5 ft 5. I lost my sex drive and I feel ugly. I am bipolar and I thought I lost my sex drive due to my meds so I stopped taking them. I have yet to bear the repercussion of not being on my meds. I am fine. So fine that my PDOC thinks I am still taking them. I have been off my meds for about a month. My husband thinks my sex drive is gone because I am not as active as I used to be. What do you all think. Do you think my husband is right? Being off my meds didn't make a difference in my sex drive it's still gone. I don't get any feeling at all when my husband makes sexual advances towards me and I feel horrible! HELP!
BipolarPrincess
BipolarPrincess
I think the fact that I stopped working out and doing all that walking I used to do before I met my hubby made me gain all of the weight nick. Thanks for the well wishes! I am going to give Turbo Jam Another try. If anyone wants to see what turbo jam looks like go to

www.beachbody.com
Marilyanna
Marilyanna
I too am overweight bec ofmeds. My sex drive webs and wanes.
I have a friend who used to teach aerobics, she has the letters )?) after ger name. I am having her fix me up a routine for fat lady that I can do for 45-60 inutes a day at home. And then I do walk. I hope to loose 30 lbs. I would like to try bycycling and hiking.
BipolarPrincess
BipolarPrincess
I feel for you. I am overweight because depression made me stop caring about my appearance ie walking and exercising and then my husband started doing everything for me and that felt nice. Then he regretted it and now I am back to light duty cleaning again and I just exercised my first exercise to my videos again today.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I lost 40 pounds when I went to rehab. When the doc gave me depakote I ate everything in site. I took the pills in and threw them at him. Since then I have gone through every med there is and none of them worked anyways so I ended up with ECT. I stopped eating and gained ten pounds. I hate my body. My bf is 50 years old and has the testosterone of a 15 year old....I have to force it sometimes, but once I let myself relax.....Well its worth it!!!!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Monday morning... everyone feel's fat !
deleted_user
deleted_user
That big bacon sandwich went down well but I sure feel fat now !
deleted_user
deleted_user
I was cursing myself today..that when I was travelling in Mexico, a couple of years ago..I didn't buy some of the "Fattie Porn" I saw displayed everywhere at news stands!! Was to embarassed etc
Wow, it was something else...*siiigh* Extremely obese (& apparently seductive, to some) women. Kinda refreshing.

(might get some from ebay..y'know, better than 'coffee table' books) ;)
deleted_user
deleted_user
Should I feel guilty about eating Lunch ?
deleted_user
deleted_user
Like most of you meds have made me put on weight. When i was manic i got too skinny and thought i had an eating disorder now im podgy and hate it! The exercise vids will help you enormously as long as you can keep it up! Good luck, im trying to lose also!
deleted_user
deleted_user
Still wish I had that 'fattie porn' ;) It Will Be Mine!! etc
joshuattee
joshuattee
Hi bipolarpr,

I gained over fifty pounds when I was on lythium, haldol and some other choice drugs. I too, lost my sex drive. The closest thing I've had to a sex drive is when I gave a hooker a ride downtown! I hope things get better for you. I lost thirty of the fifty plus pounds, but am still waiting for that sex drive to come back!

Joshuattee
deleted_user
deleted_user
Princess i am sure that u look fine u may be a little depressed but try not to be so hard on your appearance i am sure that u have a hubby that loves u to death P.S. Thanks back for the friend request xxx
deleted_user
deleted_user
lol lou2...I saw one of 'those' movies once and it was a guy dressed as a baker and he was making cookies....on her. Is that too much?? Sorry, 'blushes'...
deleted_user
deleted_user
Oh yeah..not "too much" for some! ie/ those 'squash' fetish movies..where a really, really chubby lover 'squashes' you!

Hey, don't knock it til you tried it! ;) x
deleted_user
deleted_user
I have the opposite problem, which can be just as bad...
My sex drive is off the charts...
Im always hounding him for sex...2-3 or even 4 times a day isnt enough for me...and after we have sex, I still want more, so I have to use my toys...
sometimes he says no after we have had sex once or twice that day and I get mad and self conscious thinking I'm not attractive enough...

Im always trying to get off...

BUT

when my sex drive does dip, I feel depressed...its RARE but it happens...
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