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[quote=Anonymous]Yeah, another PP here who has sadly gone from a very healthy sex drive to none. :(  And what's worse, is that with losing 10 pounds, my husband is REALLY noticing me again and wanting to get frisky more! Ugh. What a double-edged sword...... But honestly, on these meds? All I want to do is clean my house/office/basement/garage and do all those projects I've not had the energy/drive to do in years. I LOVE the increased energy! (Just don't tell DH that as cute as he is, I'd rather be organizing my sock drawer than having sex!)

On another note.... I just have to say how happy I am that I found Dr. Anchors. And I owe that to this site.  I was 30 pounds overweight. (Just for perspective, at my goal weight, I am not skinny. I'm like a curvy size 4/6 --depending on vanity sizes.) The extra 30 pounds has crept up very slowly over the last 5 years.  I had very seriously "tried" to lose the weight for over a year and only managed to budge about 4 pounds. I felt like I was starving and unhappy all the time.  I despaired at ever losing it. Since my first appointment with Dr Anchors, I've lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks (and that's with about 8 of those days on vacations or trips, which makes it much harder to keep up with my new habits).  I'm shocked at what a difference losing 10 pounds has already made in the way clothes fit, the way I look in clothes, the way I feel. I have several back issues and the pain is lessening as I lose the weight. I find myself WANTING to be active again, as it gets more comfortable to do so. If I could hug Dr Anchors right now, I would.  I don't understand why every dr isn't offering this to overweight patients. We have such an obesity epidemic in this country. And so many side effects of that--less activity, more depression. I was following a lot of advice about calories/eating, etc. that were wrong (at least for my body) and I know that Dr Anchors' simple, but effective advice is actually doing most of the work here.  HOWEVER, the meds help make it [i]possible [/i]for me to making the kinds of food decisions that I needed to make in order to lose this weight. (I guess it remains to be seen if I will continue to need the medicine to continue to make good choices to sustain the goal weight.) But why wouldn't we want to help people in that way? Although I was technically overweight, obviously I wasn't even in the kind of bad place that many others are. Why aren't doctors doing more to help all these people? Why aren't doctors giving better advice and prescriptions to people to help them return to a healthy/comfortable weight??? I'm so mad. As I was gaining weight, I continually asked numerous doctors for good advice on what to do and all they said was stupid stuff that didn't help (eat "balanced" meals; exercise more; give up butter and cheese). Even as the pounds increased, and I started getting lectured that I was going the wrong way on the scale and that I really needed to lose some weight, they had nothing helpful to say. I even asked during my last appointment if there was a drug that could help. I was literally told "if there was a drug that was effective, everyone in the world would be on it."

I seriously feel like walking around leaving a business card for Dr Anchors in every dressing room in DC. All those people, unhappy,  unhealthy, depressed. Looking at themselves in the mirror as they try on new clothes that are the next size bigger because they no longer fit into the last set of "fat clothes" they bought for themselves. People who struggle to lose weight aren't lazy. It takes a gargantuan effort to change eating habits established over a period of years. To change a lifestyle. To create new habits. And doing all of that when you work, and raise kids, or struggle with health issues, etc.... well forget about it. Not to mention all the mis-information spread through doctors, blogs, articles, etc.

I feel like I have a new lease on life. Losing ten pounds in 3 weeks hasn't been easy. But the phenpro and Dr Anchors' advice has made it do-able. I continue to hope that if I can continue with this for another couple of months, I will be back to a place where I feel like me again. I am so, so, so grateful to all the phenpro posters for sharing their stories and allowing me to go on my own journey. If you've been reading this thread and wondering about it... just call. Make the appointment. A little dry mouth and a decreased libido is something you can deal with. Stop hating the way you feel about yourself. There's help out there if you need it.

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