NEVER ENDING BATTLE - OUR WEIGHT!!!!!

[stella5349]

I don't even have to go into a long drawn out story about this.

WE THYROIDANS WANT TO LOOSE WEIGHT .................RIGHT?

I found a very basic and simple plan that can definately help us combat this nasty problem.

Dr Barry Sears has two wonderful books out - one that I have is "A Week in the ZONE".

Hypo's have two major problems. Controlling insulin in blood sugar and burning carbs. We no longer have the metabolic rate within our bodies to naturally burn these two evils.

Hense we get fat and can develop diabetes. Here is a quick glance of a newsletter I get.

When you eat a carbohydrate, your pancreas secretes insulin to drive down blood sugar back to a normal level. If you eat too many carbohydrates, your pancreas releases so much insulin that it can drive down blood sugar to a level too low to allow your brain to function effectively. This condition of low blood sugar and high insulin can be considered a step away from diabetes.

According to the Zone theory, when you're creating this excess insulin, it also prevents your body from using its stored fat for energy. Hence, your insulin response to excess carbos causes you to gain weight, or you cannot lose weight.


If you are looking for a step by step plan to assist your goals - google seach Dr Barry Sears and read the research he offers for hypothyroid patients.

Since I am trying myself to conquer my 20 pounds of weight gain. I find it very helpful to have the book I am reading to keep referring back to.

If anyone is interested and wants more info - PM me and I will try to answer your questions.

[graveswoman]

Does the zone work for atypical hyper graves patients as well?

atypical meaning gain weight at onset and no loss since just gaining every week?

GW

[anca77]

The generic you are talking about is the Levothyroxin?

[krss60]

   You have been walking 4 miles a day.  Putting on muscle.  Muscle weighs more than fat. So as you lose fat, you may be building muscle.  It should start going down soon.
     Good luck
Karen

[irene393]

This is a great site - - I love the discussions - I have had a weight probelm for my entire lifetime - Currently, I am morbidly obese at 290 - which is down from 327.  Recently I started to exercise and joined a team of "losers" and dropped 37 pounds in 4 months - now I have hit a wall and am losing body fat and the weight is creeping up about 6 pounds in two months - Any suggestions or insight why - -I have been taking the synthroid and such - and watch the carbs, sugars and such  -- I walk 4 miles a day - to and from work -- This whole weirdness is frustrating me -- I will take a look at the Zone - thanks once again.

[AngelaB713]

I totally agree that a good low carb diet is essential is losing weight and feeling better, especially when you suffer from hypo-thyroidism.  But when you are doing these things and exercising (which I had been doing 4 times a week) and the weight doesn't budge or, in my case, goes up, then we know there is a problem that needs to be addressed.  Bottom line, we should never accept the doctor's "pat on the head" when we know our bodies and know there is something wrong.  I was 191 at the doctor's office and now I am 186.  Simply by going back on name brand Synthroid and adding Cytomel has made a huge impact on the quality of my life.  Even my husband, who is working out of town, could tell I felt better just by the tone of my voice over the phone.  I just can't put into words how much better I feel.

[DMFischer]

For years they tested my T3-T4 ect and they were always within normal limits.  So no one ever followed it up.  They just told me I was FAT and I needed to eat less.  They didn't listen to me when I told them I was not pigging out.  I believed them and figured that it was all me.  At 12 my mom took me to a doctor that put me on amphetamines.  Yea, insane right?? But that was back in 1965.  I actually ended up going in and having the surgery to lose weight.  OMG.  That was nearly the end of me.  The combined after effects put me through 6 major surgeries to save my life.  I lost 216!!! pounds in ONE YEAR and suffered from malnutrition, anorexic /bulimia. No one actually looked at the thyroid, as in ultrasound, anything.  
Now they say I have at lease 7 noids/goiters in there.  One may be cancer.  
I do not eat huge meals.  But my weight returned slowly over the years and here I am trying to figure out how to have some sort of happy life after 55 yrs of hell.  Diet..I will try anything if it will have a chance of working and does not involve cutting me open.