The beginning of this is gonna be a little ranty, but dammit I deserve to rant.

I used to be pretty big on calories in and calories out. Mind you, I've been within 5 lbs of the same weight for over a decade. I was overweight but perfectly okay with where I was. Then I got put on an anti psychotic. No one warned me that weight gain was a potential side effect. After few months my clothes didn't fit and I stepped on a scale. 15 lbs in just under 3 months. While I wasn't calorie counting, at least not until the last week or so when I also gained another pound, nothing had changed. I have mental health issues that keep me on a pretty strict routine, I order the same food every month and eat the same things every week. There was brief stint before this where I tried to learn to cook but that was flop. Other than that it's the same stuff, for years. I panicked, go to the doctors office and they're like "oh that's the medication, if it's really a problem we can do this other really expensive drug where you gain less weight." Not that I wouldn't, gain weight. I would gain LESS weight. I took the damn less expensive drug and threw a hissy fit. That was my GP, I talked to my psych and even my therapist about this. Everyone knew but me. And I'm like, HOW?!?! Well I mentioned this on another sub and someone said it had to do with sugars. This person straight up became a diabetic on anti-psychotics. So my next appointment to talk about the new drugs I ask questions. Apparently my weight gain was on the LOW SIDE. A ton of people taking these pills become borderline diabetics within a few weeks. A few become actual diabetics. Rarely, they actually become unmanagable diabetics to the point they have to stop taking the drugs because it's risking their lives.

Anyway. New medication. Immediately I've started losing weight and I haven't done anything different. But this is going to be a perpetual problem as I have to take these drugs for the rest of my life and while the weight gain will be less it's still there. I know the obvious just cut calories. I can do that, but I'm very concerned that's not going to be enough. None of my medical team is taking this seriously and I can't get any good advice. I've thought about buying diabetic testing equipment, trying one of those diabetic cook books or... Anything. This is a nightmare. Do any of you have experience with this? More insight? This is like a waking nightmare.