will i ever lose the weight?

[jillian299]

i was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism when i was 15. i got radiaction when i was 16 to kill the thyroid and was put on meds. i ignored the problem til i couldn't anymore i was sleeping all day everyday and gaining mass amounts of weight that i could not lose. i just recently went in april to get regulated on my meds. i take 150 mcg of levothyroxine once daily. will i ever lose all this weight?

[maryrose59]

All that I have read about this is that we Hypos need to be very careful about what we eat. Several books have been suggested to help : The Zone Diet by Barry Sears PHD and The Thyroid Diet by Mary J Shomon both are very helpful.  Unfortunately, just because we are on meds that weight doesn't fall off us the way we think it should.  We will always be metabolically challenged because of the fact that we have hypothyroidism.
Good Luck

[stella5349]

Mary brought up two great resources for your question

Take a look at this post

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/568436

I listed a fairly detailed article on weight issues.