Weight gain and obesity as a side effect of such psychiatric drugs as antipsychotics or antidepressants is a crucial issue in health care. Excessive weight does not only bring discomfort to a patient’s everyday life, but also increases his or her chances of cardiovascular diseases, complications, and mortality. Another severe health outcome of obesity is its adverse effect on medication compliance. Many patients suffer from excessive weight and cannot achieve any result in reducing psychiatric symptoms, at the same time acquiring new health problems. Therefore, it is critical to find ways to prevent weight gain in psychiatric patients who use medication and minimize the burden of risk they encounter when adhering to the medication plan. In this paper, the article by Dayabandara et al. (2017) will be used to analyze available weight gain management and assistance nursing interventions. The implications of obesity and rapid gain of excessive bodyweight under the influence of antipsychotic drugs are broad and might have a long-term effect. Some of the medications are more likely to provoke obesity than others. According to Dayabandara et al. (2017), clozapine and olanzapine have a high propensity to cause weight gain, and chlorpromazine, quetiapine, risperidone, and paliperidone are of a moderate inclination. However, all of them expose patients to problems with weight. As for the timeline of the problem occurs, a rapid increase in body weight is usually observed within the first 2 or 3 weeks of psychiatric medication intake. However, the process continues throughout 1-4 years, which causes a spectrum of comorbidities for a patient (Dayabandara et al., 2017). Moreover, it has been identified that “patients who are obese are 13 times more likely to discontinue medication because of weight gain than non-obese patients” (Dayabandara et al., 2017, p. 2234). For that reason, specific nursing interventions need to be applied promptly to address the complicating issues arising with psychiatric medication use and help patients manage weight gain. To assist a client in weight management and reduce obesity as a result of psychiatric drug intake, I would implement several interventions. Firstly, a strict but nutritious diet would be prescribed to assist in controlling body weight gain and reducing ultimate complications for the health. Secondly, I would initiate weighing a patient regularly under the same circumstances to track the progress and correct the diet plan if required. Such an approach is an effective way of encouraging a patient when he or she achieves some results and provides extra motivation to adhere to a nutritious diet. Finally, physical exercising as a substantial part of weight gain control will be suggested and explained to a patient, so that he or she can sustain a healthy physique. All these interventions are only a part of the possible ways to manage the adverse side effects of psychiatric medications. As for the measures provided in the analyzed article, the first nursing intervention chosen for the analysis is of a non-pharmacologic type and is called adherence to a “behavioral lifestyle program” (Dayabandara et al., 2017, p. 2235). Within this strategy, a patient is encouraged to engage in healthy behav