Anyone else on anti-depressants or other weight-gaining drugs?

I am in serious need of a support group, and I assume I'm not the only one having this problem.  I have been counting calories, seeing a nutritionis t who says I eat ver y well, and exercising five days a week (30 minutes on the elliptical, then strength training) since November and I have not lost any weight at all (in fact I've gained one pound).  I refused to believe at first that this was because of the ONE medicine I'm on that supposedly causes weight gain (Risperdal--though my doctor recently told me it's "famous for weight gain"), but here it is, mid-April, five and a half months later, and since I have lost no pounds and&n bsp;no pants sizes, I guess I have to admit that it's the drugs (I have no idea what else it would be, neither does my nutritionist).  I keep working out and eating right because I hope that when I stop this drug completely (I have recently cut down the dosage) the weight will fly off me, but it's really hard to stay motivated when you see absolutely no results and you feel like there's nothing you can do about it.  Anyone else in this boat?

ALL SSRIs tend to make you gain weight. They tend to slow your metabolsim.  Just google "SSRI weight gain."  An excellent place to start is this site.  Some have more effect on one person than another, so sometimes changing drugs helps.  Sometimes the weight gain doesn't begin for 6 months.  Another site, I've since lost track of, suggests that the best thing you can do, is get rid of the weight early.  The longer the problem goes on, the more intractable it becomes.

So you know: I have Hashimoto's disease (auto-immune hypothyroid) and I'm on Paroxetine, the worst of the SSRIs, but the only one I appear to be able to tolerate.  Back to calorie-counting and the log for me.

Jasmin, you won't get withdrawal symptoms as long as you reduce the dosage very slowly.  Buy a pill cutter.  :-)

I'm on zoloft...does anyone know much about that in connection to weight gain?