Overweight because of my medication.

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I've been having a weight problem for a long time and it started when I was prescribed risperidone as a teenager. I actually used to be skinny but the medication I take has a side effect of making people overweight and I really can't change medications or stop taking it because without it I have a hard time functioning. I've tried everything like diet and exercise but after I loose a couple of pounds I always seem to gain it back within the next few days.

What is the best way to loose weight when you're taking medication that causes you to be overweight? Can anybody help me with this problem?

I was on a medication before that caused me to gain weight, depakote.
The key to doing it is to make a healthy eating habits that you can sustain your entire life. The main reason diets fail is because once people get to their goal weight, they eventually go back to their regular ways of eating. Unfortunately, they pack on even more lbs. Hence the 'yo yo' dieters term. This can be not good for your health if done continiously.

The main thing is to eat as healthy as you can during the week, on the weekend, choose 2 days to have "cheat days" eating whatever you want. This does not mean you go crazy and eat everything in sight. You eat more, but not a massive amount.

If you want, I can help you create or choose healthier foods.

I lost 101 lbs myself, I've maintained it for a year so far.

I think one of the problems is that the healthiest thing for anybody to eat is lots of fruits and vegetables and I really can't eat a lot of vegetable due to a sensory thing I have with my Aspergers, so I'm basically stuck eating meats and grains most of the time which are very fattening.

You could try eating lean meats.Choose whole grains. Choose grains such as quinoa, steel cut oats that you boil to cook, couscous. Choose unsalted seeds such as sunflower seeds or walnuts, which also are high in omega 3's, and although they are high in fat, itts primary fat is not saturated or bad for you. Canned tuna is pretty cheap, good for you and full of the omega 3 fatty acids (which is good for you). Something important to remember is that not all fats are rcreated equal. In fact, some fats are good for you.

If you want, I wrote this, you can read it for more info if you want. I'm not sure how accurate it is, I wrote it ot the best of my knowledge:
There are at least 4 types of fat that I know. Saturated fats, trans fats (or hydrogenated oils), monounsaturated fats, and polyunsautrated fats. The fats from what I've learned seem to have a direct liink to HDL and LDL "cholesterol.". I put that in quotes because HDL and LDL (High density lipoproteins and low density lipoproteins) which is your good and bad "cholesteral" , aren't really cholester themselves. HDL and LDL are lipoproteins, fat and protein molecules that gradually lose fat as they travel through your bloodstream. They are carries of cholesterol, they are not cholesertal themselves.

. A lipoprotein is born as a chylomicron, made from your intestinal cells from protein and triglycerides (fats which your body stores in adipose tissue or the fat underneath your skin) .

After 12 hours or so of travelling through your blood, the chylomicron has almost lost all of its fats. VDL's Very low density lipoproteins is where it starts. Your liver produces these from choolestral and fatty acids. Eventually, these lose fats (triglycerides), and become LDL.s As they lose more protein, they finally end up as high density lipoprotein. It is important to note, probably because they first have more fat, they are more squishy and less dense. Because of this, they tend to pass through blood vvesels sometimes and despoit themselves as plaque in arrtery walls. This can cause a stroke (lack of oxygen to the brain ) or heart attack. Enough plate builds up and blood eventually can't pass, and oxygen is deprived to the blood.

That's why LDL "cholestraL" is "bad". Because they deposit plaque. They despit themselves INTO the body. The HDL cholesteral, or high density lipoproteins,, are too dense and less fat , so they are too dense to pass through blood vessels walls, and thus they take bad cholesteral OUT of the body. It's good to have a high HDL cholesteral ratio vs low LDL ratio. The ratio is more important I think because even if you have great HDL, your LDL might be way low. So it balances itself out, I think.

I guess I could try eatting just the foods with the "good" fats, also I think I need to just exercise more, but I hate going out in public so I need to force myself to do it at home. To be honest I'm kind of lazy which is partly why I'm overweight so I really need to work on getting more active, but laziness is kind of a hard habbit to break.

You might want to look into something like the Atkins plan or the South Beach Diet. Grains will have to go but especially with Atkins meat is very compatible. Also, if you are eating meats, cut out the fatty meats like beef and pork and try and stick with chicken and turkey, especially the white meat instead of the dark. Also you can look into imitation meats (i.e. vegetable products) like the ones from Morningstar Farms - their breakfast links and their pizza burgers are excellent and very diet friendly.