Having a lot of migraines made me lose 25 pounds...the weight loss was nice, but I don't really recommend the method.

Of course, the migraines are back, but now that I've had them for so long, I've gotten used to eating even when I'm feeling nauseated, so I don't think it'll help. I"m contemplating new prophylactics, after three migraines in the past week--I hear you lose weight on topamax, even as you lose your mind?

Am in O'Hare, flight to start boarding v. soon. Fingers crossed, but it looks good. WHEW!

Having a lot of migraines made me lose 25 pounds...the weight loss was nice, but I don't really recommend the method.

Um, yeah, I'll take a pass on that one.

I think the reason I stopped taking Topamax was because of the weight loss issues, so you may be right, meara.

msbelle,

that was my gut reaction also, but it seemed an easier solution than increasing exercise. I always want the easier fix.

It's actually NOT an easier fix. Increasing exercise doesn't generally burn enough calories to make you lose weight. The increasing exercise is to maintain metabolic shift. 1200 calories isn't a lot. The medically supervised diet I've been on has been between 600-900 calories pretty consistently and I'm neither hungry nor happy. And this round I've been cheating like mad.

In news that doesn't make me want to keep eating cheese all night, I got my first-ever (I think) random contact from a recruiter today! Via LinkedIn! I imagine I won't be interested in the job, since what I'm looking for is something different than my list of jobs would indicate, but still. Good times.

The medically supervised diet I've been on has been between 600-900 calories pretty consistently and I'm neither hungry nor happy.

According to the site, that's about what I ate yesterday. And the day before. (I'm a little dubious about the numbers.) And I'm not doing it on purpose, just what I want. I don't eat breakfast beyond a couple glasses of V8 Fusion and coffee because actual food makes me queasy that early. I have half a ham and cheese sandwich and a banana over the course of the work day. Dinner was a chicken thigh and some cabbage with a teeny bit of dressing of some sort or a frozen veg lasagna and maybe a piece of toast. Lots of water and some diet ginger ale (because the fully loaded stuff is too sweet.)

I've realized my meals are so very boring. I was reading someone's blog where they blogged about the bento lunchboxes they made every day. And I was all that's so much work! but they had so much more variety than me. I just can't be arsed. I like good food. I just don't care enough to make a serious effort.

I love the bento posts. They inspire me (and freak me out as I am lazy). Though, I realize I cook, really cook, for Noah. And meanwhile, I eat salad for almost every lunch and dinner. It's sad.

I want to buy a bento box

They make me seriously want a personal cook the way posts about regular meals don't. I really don't vary much. If I make something, I eat it for a week and then back to chicken and salad. If I had kids, the poor things would probably have to survive on cereal, pb&j, fruit and ...chicken and salad.

Bento boxes are a lot of work. And I "cheated" by making large-ish batches of something and portioning it out into multiple boxes. One section of rice and some sort of meat, one section of fruit (with a wrapped-up cookie), two sections of veggies. I fell out of the bento box habit when I discovered that the cafeteria close to my office has a stand for good Mexican food.