Weight Gain w/Normal Thyroid Tests

[wandy07]

Can anyone offer advice on how to lose weight beyond exercising for several hours a day, and being careful to eat low-fat, nutritious food?  My thyroid tests come back a lower normal.  I feel like I MUST exercise daily (treadmill, outdoor walking, eliptical machine, and several nights a week at Curves) to just not gain weight as fast.  I am still gaining weight, and I hate it!  My feet hurt, and my doctor says to stay off them, but I just simply do not dare!  I'd look like a blimp in days because I gain weight by the 5 and 10 pounds at a time.  My weight has steadily climbed to 190 pounds!  Does anyone have any ideas?   Hate the weight!  

[Ilyzium]

I can relate to you because this was happening to me as well. Out of the blue I started gaining a lot of weight in a few months, despite exercising vigorously, eating low fat & low calories. I was dismissed by regular MD's who said that my test results were normal, even though I had all of the symptoms of being hypothyroid. I know for a fact there are many "hypothyroid" people walking around, being dismissed by regular Doctors, because their "numbers" do not fall within the mainstream medical community. I finally went to a Naturopath who has been able to treat me tremendously and confirmed that I was in fact "borderline hypothyroid" and am now presently on Armour Thyroid. Naturopath's btw treat the symptoms and you are not just a lab result to them.

[DLA]

Can you tell me exactly what your numbers are so I will be more able to help you?  That way I will know what you mean by "low normal".  Drs have different ideas of what that "normal" is.  A lot of them will leave it so that you still have all the symptoms and weight gain, but they will consider them normal by THEIR standards.

Dac

[GravesLady]

YOU MIGHT TRY THE Nutrition doctor forum and ask Renée Radenberg, RD
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/show/143

OR

Weight loss forum  http://www.medhelp.org/forums/WeightLoss/start.html