I am against all mental medications so I'll skip that part. you need to stop eating so much food. the meds will make it tough to build muscle and convert your food to fat, but gaining weight is from eating too many calories. if you have the apple body type I would suggest weight training to build muscle. I would concentrate on your legs. most people I see with that body type eat horrible and dont have any muscle. keep some cardio days though. diet pills will not help you.
sorry to be the Ahole.
I have somewhat of a different view on it myself. Although I do agree with some of what you said, and I think it was good advice. But I've also been in a similar situation myself, and seen and made diets for many people who have been in the same situation as well, and the answer WAS NOT to not eat as much.
First of all I think it's fair to assume that anybody who finds themselves in this situation to begin with is leaning more towrds the endomorph side of the scale, rather than the ectomorph side. An ecto wouldn't ever have this problem to begin with.
With an endo, the metabolism is by nature slower than the average person. To the point where the answer is NOT to not eat as much. I've seen people cut back to the point where they only eat maybe 2 or 3 meals a day, and when they do eat it's hardly anything at all, like maybe a pop tart or toast or something extremely small. Well obviously there not eating very many cals, and should be losing weight, but it doesn't work like that. When you quit eating like that, you take your already naturally slow metabolism and almost totally shut it off.
Well, we all know what happens when your metabolism is going slow, you don't burn calories. The people, myself included, that have done this, have actually GAINED weight on that kind of diet. Not the answer.
The answer was to eat more, keep it clean of course, keep your carbs up, to keep your metabolism going, if you go real low carb, and up your fats, your metabolism will slow down.
My advice to you would be to set up a diet where your cals are a little bit below maintenance level. Then take that number and set up a macro ratio of something like 40/40/20 of protein/carbs/fat. Six to seven meals a day. It's important for you to keep doing that working out 5 times a week and doing that cardio though. Cardio and working out speeds up your metabolism incredibly.
So personally, I would keep the cardio and working out schedule, just change the diet to something along those lines and you will be amazed how eating more food and more frequently will actually make the fat disappear faster than trying to not eat as much.