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About a year and a half ago my Doctor put me on an Antidepressant (Paxil) for anxiety and depression. While the medication has helped lower my anxiety levels and improve my overall mood, it has also led to me gaining almost 50 pounds in a year and a half (see before and after picture below).

While I do try to watch what I eat, the medication has made me more hungry throughout the day. I try to exercise a few times a week, but I haven't been able to stop gaining weight. Have you ever experienced this, and if so, were you able to lose weight without stopping the medication?

I'm 21 and still living at my parent's, I have a job though, I do medical billing part time while training to be an entrepreneur and I work from home. My job doesn't pay much because the practice I'm working for is very new and doesn't have much money coming in, but I'm only going to work this job temporarily (about 1 year) before I start investing in stocks and real estate. For now while I'm living here I'm paying for the household essentials (toilet paper, dish soap, trash bags, etc.) which has been a big improvement because we would always run out of those things because we never had much money, and I'm saving my surplus money on my Robinhood account. I set a limit at 23, so at 23 I will either move out or go homeless.

But I recently lost 70 pounds and I'm getting ready to go cloth shopping for the first time in 5 years and I want to start dressing nicer. I'm tired of jeans and tshirts every day, I want to start wearing nice button down shirts and blazers, nothing expensive though just things I can find at wamart. But I feel like it's wrong and I don't deserve it because I'm still living at my parent's house.

by the way my parent's actually like me living here because I help out with the payments and house work. Also, even though I tend to beat myself up for living with my parents still, but I'm learning to be proud of the things I do have like having absolutely no debt (didn't go to college), I have no kids (my mother and my older siblings had kids by the time they were my age), and I have no addictions to anything (which actually runs in the family. Also, I'm not planning on dating until I move out either.