Re: metabolism and weight loss

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you've increased your fitness level.. could it be that you dropped some fat and gained some muscle? Muscle is denser than fat.. so it would show as inches lost, even if the scale is not showing a loss in weight....

I considered that. But I can't believe I've gained 7 lbs of muscle.... I wasn't in totally bad shape before that.

Plus, I've kept track of inches and haven't lost any, but my clothes seem to be still fitting the same which is wierd.

so even if you don't reduce the numbers on the scale, if the clothes are fitting looser and you are able to do more physically... you've done GOOD!

I know.... I'm glad I've worked so hard, and can do more physically than before. There's just so much pressure to lose the weight. I've been thinking this past 2 years, that all these problems I've been having including maybe PCOS and others, that my weight is all to blame and I'd be so much better

off if I could just unload some!

It's a lot harder to work on the metabolism to get weight to stabilize or come off... We have to remember that... first concentrate on getting the thyroid levels were you are feeling better and your body is working better.. then you can concentrate more on weight loss.

That's a good idea. I know my body fights me. If someone without my issues were exercising like I do, and eating like I do, they'd be losing weight easily!

Too many, unfortunately, mess up their progress in getting their metabolic rates back up to par by cutting meals and over exercising. Since our bodies can't regulate themselves automatically like they used to, it's up to us to learn on to do the regulating our selves..

I would be interested to learn more about that. I've tried everything from Oprah's 10 step program, to low glycemic, to vegetarian

to just plain cutting back everything. Currently I watch fat, watch calories, watch refined carbs.... and honestly don't

eat all that much. Especially considering that at my weight, I should NEED a lot of calories just to maintain. I eat way less, and should be also burning some, so it should be a no brainer. I know it may not be as simple for me as others without metabolism issues. The only thing that's ever worked for me (even though it isn't now), is to exercise hard and eat less. When I was postpartum, and hyper (supposedly)

it was the first time in many many years that by exercising moderately (40 min) and eating sensibly I was dropping a lb or 2 a week. Then they reduced my meds..... and it came to a grinding halt for the past year.

Ponder on that, when you have some time, and see if something comes to mind that would help your reach your goal....

I think I just need to understand more about how metabolic issues affect me with my thyroid issues. I need to fix my adrenals and thyroid better. And, I would guess listening to my body and not pushing through exercise when I'm fatigued would help! I just feel SO guilty to ever miss a day....

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.. no fears... once your meds are optimized and your metabolism picks up.. it's not going to be hard at all to manage a healthy weight.... I think we here know a LOT more about nutrition that most folks, that's the hardest part.... now apply that knowledge to a metabolism that is functioning properly and you'll do just fine...

How do I know that? Well... for all the years since RAI and going hypo I had a miserable time trying to keep the gain down... I finally went on a low carb diet and that dropped a ton of weight.. but it's not healthy AND expensive so I stopped... and gained it right back...

From that I learned how to keep protein to carb ratios in line and stopped gaining.. even maintained weight for a couple of years. Based on how my clothes fit.... Once I got my meds up there and my metabolism started coming up and I threw in mini-meals... I started dropping weight... Still eating the same foods (my budget doesn't allow much flexibility there) but taking the same volume of food that I was wolfing down in one or two meals a day and splitting it up into 5 to 7 meals a day.... I started that in October last year... and by the end of January I couldn't keep my pants up.. I kid you not.. even with suspenders they were soo baggy that I actually hooked them on the corner of the table standing up one night and popped the clips on the suspenders... I just managed to catch them before mooning my dad!!!

That kept up all the way until spring, when my replacement close were getting loose enough to go to the next smaller size.. that's when I hurt myself out in the yard and stopped exercising.... I didn't gain much back... but my clothes weren't so loose anymore...

I'm still too big to fit on the scale that we've got here in the house.. so I go by how my clothes fit... See... at my best, as a body builder with only 21% body fat I held 277 for over 3 years... I'm just a big gal with really heavy bone.... by the time I went in for my first doc appointment I'd already dropped down to 230... by the time I was diagnosed I was down to 215, and that was with a caloric intake of between 25 and 30 THOUSAND calories a day!!!

How the metabolism works has a profound effect on our weight management... Once your metabolism is where it should be.. with common sense application of what you already know about nutrition... you'll get to your healthy weight again... Mind you, I said HEALTHY weight... not all of us are meant to be Twiggy.... With my bone structure, if I'm under 175.. I look like skin stretched over bone... and I'm sick all the time... I felt best at about 220.... and when I added muscle to that.. my weight was 277... and I felt good at that.... Yet the charts show I'm supposed to weight only 155 to 160.... Heck.. that's would be me... dead....

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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 08:35:57 -0700 "J Sisemore" writes:

Since I'm just now on 1/2 g of Armour, I know I have a ways to go to get my metabolism in good enough shape to stop gaining weight and start losing. But, will taking the right dose for me guarantee that exercising and a sensible diet will allow weight loss? Will I see that what I've been doing all along (which should work) will finally start working? Or, being hypothyroid, will it always be a struggle in spite of adequate medication and good labs? I do NOT want to gain back the weight I had already lost. But I'm so tired that I can only exercise so-so right now. And, I know I am probably tempted to turn to too much food/comfort food now, because I've been so frustrated and discouraged about my health for so long. But.... I'm trying to control that.

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I took my basals this morning..... 96.8 A good .4 lower than when I was on the levoxyl so I KNOW I need more Armour. Hopefully I'll get it this week!

That's a good point about less needed once you lose weight. I hadn't considered that! I would be thrilled with a pound a week. Beats a pound every few months!

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I took my basals this morning..... 96.8 A good .4 lower than when I was on the levoxyl so I KNOW I need more Armour. Hopefully I'll get it this week!

That's a good point about less needed once you lose weight. I hadn't considered that! I would be thrilled with a pound a week. Beats a pound every few months!