Bipolar Disorder Support Group

Bipolar disorder is not just a single disorder, but a category of mood disorders marked by periods of abnormally high energy and euphoria, often accompanied by bouts of clinical depression. This is the place to talk about your experience with bipolar disorder, learn from others' experiences, and find support.

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BipolarPrincess 10/17/2009

Excuse my language but I am royally pissed. I been working out on the wii fit for the past week for about a half hour a day except for one night when I worked out for ten minutes because I was too tired. But the next night I made up for it and worked out an extra twenty minutes making it 51 minutes and tonight I worked out for a whole hour and eleven minutes tonight and the wii said I gained .3 pounds. I am beginning to loose my mind. Hubby and friend told me I am gaining muscle not fat. I DON"t want to gain muscle. IT weighs more! Tell me again what the point in my exercising if I am going the opposite direction on the scales???

deleted_user 10/17/2009

you should try pilates. you shape your body but dont gain a lot of muscle weight. it leaves your body lean but sculpted too.

deleted_user 10/17/2009

hi bprincess
yah, you are gaining muscle, and your toning! that is a good thing..!!!! and muscle does weigh more than fat!!! anyway, what is this wii thing your working out on ? i need something to do at home, i am ready to lose some poundage, the 70lbs i put on in 8 months on the zyprexa about a year or 2 ago...i need it to come off, i have a hard time getting out of a damn car these days..i try to fool myself into thinking i am not fat...but i am heavier then i have ever been in my life....

you go girl, i'm right behind ya:) hugs, maggie

jimgreg 10/17/2009

thats happing to me also...but i want the mussles..ive been buffed all my adult life..the-thing about musles THEY BURN CA,LS GREAT..YOU KEEP GOING AND CUT THE INTAKE BY 65% OR MORE IN 1 MOTH YOU WILL DROP..but if you keep gaining and your being honest with yourself..then get thyroid checked.all or most bp meds lower the thyroid age will too.... good luck to ya

deleted_user 10/17/2009

WOW!... if your biggest/ greatest/ worst complaint in your entire life is that you gained a WHOOPING .3 pounds.............................. again, WOW!

vickybea 10/17/2009

is it your time of the month or leading up to it because you'll also gain some water retention for a while

deleted_user 10/17/2009

gaining muscles is normal.. it might weigh more but wont be as big so you'' start to slim down but tone up this is a GOOD thing. If you lose weight and dont gain muscles you look baaaaaad

deleted_user 10/17/2009

My weight fluctuated a little bit at first too when I began using the Wii. Now, I've started to notice that my legs are becoming more tone, and I've lost 7 lbs. I had to lay off of it this past week and a half due to a neck injury, but I'm about to start up again.

dancingd 10/17/2009

I understand your frustration..we want faster results,that's normal.

I've been doing a 20 min video workout,I did lose 6 Lbs and noticed my legs were getting more toned looking.

Then I went to my moms for 4 days,we ate healthly and lite.
When I got back home and stepped on the scale ,I'd gained 8 Lbs!

Totally bummed by that.
Is it Mothers home cooking?EEK

BipolarPrincess 10/17/2009

I actually have lots more complaints that I can complain about......But complaining about them in my opinion would just bring the whole board down. I am not very happy with life in general right now but it's all situational. My meds are working just fine again finally. I am sleeping just a tiny bit better.

surferchica 10/17/2009

a little gain...0.3 lb is no big deal, and probably not a lot of muscle yet. Maybe you just need to have a BM...

one week is not much time to tell...

are you dieting dear?
xxoo

BipolarPrincess 10/17/2009

I don't eat three times a day. So I dunno if you call that dieting. Tonight I ate a salad for dinner and hated it. There's just something about grease and fat that just tastes better. I know I have an addicting high calorie food diet. I just wish all the foods that were bad for you tasted bad so I wouldn't feel guilty for eating hamburgers. Maybe if I were vegan I would be loads skinnier or is that a big facade? But a lot of the vegans I see are really grossly thin. My college professor is a vegan but she looks too skinny to me.

deleted_user 10/17/2009

Lol we all like the greasy foods better they are comfort foods but sadly if you're nt changing your diet then exercising wont make a huge difference, you have to do both to win. And dieting doesnt have to be boring... although 3 meals a day is better than skipping meals

deleted_user 10/17/2009

Actually, you should try to eat three times a day, according to my nutrionist, with three light snacks in between those. If you only eat once a day, your body goes into starvation mode. Then, when you do eat, your body absorbs every fat, calorie and so on that it can from that meal. It was a difficult adjustment for me. But for snacks I have yogurt, carrot sticks, celery sticks with peanut butter, that kind of thing. Then, sensible meals three times a day.

Good luck. Hope you get to feeling better.

BipolarPrincess 10/17/2009

I was eating three times a day but gained 8 pounds so that had to stop. I was eating breakfast then eating in the dining hall out on campus then coming home and cooking dinner and eating again. The hubby wasn't liking it and started to get abusive and called me fat and lazy and now that I am eating less he stopped getting abusive.

deleted_user 10/17/2009

Is your husband a nutritionist ?

Either way.... eating three meals a day is far better than one big one. As long as you eat the right things....

The thing is you either do it right or dont do it at all really.

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