Birth control has a bad reputation for making people gain weight or making it harder to lose weight, but when I was on it I lost weight. Like a lot.
And before you ask, no I wasn’t doing anything better than I was before. In fact I was being even less healthy. I was eating pizza multiple times a week and drinking regularly, but I still lost almost 20 pounds! I was overweight to begin with so this wasn’t a problem (I’m 4’10″ and went from about 128 pounds to 110 pounds). The nurses at the health department thought I was anorexic. I started taking birth control because it’s supposed to help with “lady problems.” I used to have horrific periods. They were ridiculously heavy and long, and so painful that sometimes I would vomit, and they were somewhat irregular. But birth control made it SO much better. Plus the weight loss wasn’t bad either. Haha But once I stopped taking it, I gained all the weight back.
So has anyone else had experience with this? And if so do you know WHY your body responded that way.
