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I looked back to the start of my Topomax and Wellbutrin.  In late July I started Topomax with no weight loss from the meds – after a few weeks, I only had a 2 pound weight loss to report.  I did, decide at that point to get more serious about the weight loss and joined a gym and started to exercise more but more importantly, I started to watch my eating.  Shortly after, I added Welbutrin.  It helped give me more energy and helped me with my cravings so I could focus more on restricting my diet.  I started counting calories and began to restrict my daily diet to 1500 calories per day although there were days where I would eat closer to 1100 calories.  As I  restricted my diet, the weight began to come off.  At another time I will try to get the exact schedule of weight loss for those who would like to see it.  I did read that on September 12th, I was down 7 pounds.  My weight fell about 1 pound a week in the beginning and then went through an increase and I lost at a faster rate for a while and then I hit a 2 week plateau with NO weight loss.  That was at around 20 pounds down.  That was hard.  I read about plateaus and what to do.  I chose to increase my calories (I was at about 1100 per day when the plateau hit which was probably too low) to about 1600-1800 calories for a week and then about 1500-1700 for another week and I tried to work out more (weight training) during that time.  It did the trick, finally after 2 weeks of either no loss or small gains (because I was eating more calories), I began to lose again!  Since the plateau I am down another 5 pounds now.  My total weight loss is 27-28 pounds and I have gone down 2-3 pant sizes.  I am finally getting smaller readings when measuring with a tape measure too.  I still have 20 more pounds to go to reach my normal weight range – it is hard to believe I have done all this hard work (almost 30 pounds!) and still need to go 20 more!  I don’t mind it so much now as long as I don’t hit another plateau but the plateau was very discouraging and 2 weeks seemed to take forever to get through.  I see a big difference in how my body looks although I still critically think, yes – I would like that last 20 gone too.  I worry about how to maintain once I get there but I will worry about that then.