Fri, May-13-11, 11:38
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Senior Member
Posts: 425
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Plan: Paleo/Atkins/low cal
Stats: 232/148/135
BF:a lot
Progress: 87%
Location: Bay Area, CA
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Just a heads up on Met
I am on Metformin now. Been doing it for 6 weeks. I feel your pain on the lack of weight loss unless you do 10g or less carbs per day. But being on Metformin hasn't been the boon I thought it would be. My doctor says if I had PCOS, the weight would come off as I walked to the frig. This drug was specifically designed to help them. IR people - different story.
Some people loose weight on Met, others don't. A lot of people loose weight just from the side effects. And the side effects are everything except bleeding from the eyes. Pretty hard to eat anything when the stomach is cramping, blow your brains out diarrhea, harsh headaches, gas, bad nausea, food aversions, lethargy (I've almost fallen asleep at my desk), increased appetite or killed appetite, sugar cravings, metallic/muddy taste in your mouth, on and on.
The side effects get better over time, but then they also pop up for no reason. I tolerated the drug very well at first. Now I'm taking a bunch of OTC stuff to off set the side effects. The worst part about it is I never know what kind of day I'm going to have. Nothing is worse than crapping your pants at the office....
I'm not telling you to not take the drug - you have to do something to get the weight off. Just to give you a heads up.
Last edited by bonechew : Fri, May-13-11 at 11:45.
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