Weight gain

[Zagor]

If a certain medication causes weight gain is it because they make you hungrier or is it something else? I want to try Mirtazapine for amphetamine withdrawal but depression as well. However that is #1 antidepressant that causes weight gain. I would follow a strict diet and exercise (if my physical problem is solved) in order not to gain weight but I have read that people did all this and still added lbs.

[sober4life]

Putting on weight in the beginning is probably inevitable no matter what you do.  You go from being on speed to not being on speed.  You will be a lot less active and put on weight in the beginning because being as active as before will be close to impossible.

[Zagor]

So even if I don't submit to the urge of eating I would still gain weight?

[sober4life]

If you stick to the same diet as before yes.  You won't be as active and your metabolism will certainly slow down.  Doing what you're doing is a very hard thing to do.  You can build a mountain and say you have to do this too the whole time.  It's how I've always quit all drugs too.  I watched the scale the whole time and the process was tons more miserable than it needed to be.  It's your choice really.  It will take more of a toll on you mentally that's for sure.  However you go say I'm quitting amphetamines which on it's own is something that a lot of people out there can't do.  It's a huge accomplishment on it's own.