Re: Metabolism

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What did your last labs show? Too many docs don't get that part right... it's not just getting the numbers 'in normal range' it's where they fall in that range.... AND it's VERY important to see what your Free T3 level is to see if you are converting properly. You're on a T4 only med, and a low dose, if you're not converting enough of the T4 to usable T3, you're still hypo and that is the weight issue.

Now... cutting calories.... you shouldn't over eat, but if you under eat, as a hypo, you're gonna gain weight too.... If we don't eat regularly, especially breakfast, it affects our conversion... if we aren't converting hormone, we're not gonna get metabolism kicked up and lost the weight....

If you can, post your last labs, with ranges, for us to see....

I just posted the link in another message about the mini meals page at the website... take a peak at that and see if you get inspired... www.thyrophoenix.com/mini_meals.htm

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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 06:43:45 EDT GwraigMel@... writes:

Hi all,

I was just wondering.......... is there a way to kick start your metabolism after being diagnosed with hypothyroid!?

As some of you know I was diagnosed in September last year with hypothyroid.

My problem is ............. I wanna lose weight! But my body won't get into gear, and coz they say my thyroid levels are fine I won't get any more thyroxine. I am only on 50mcg of Levothryoxine.

So......... after the easter weekend, where I am not going to miss out on my chocolate lol I am going to start reducing what I eat. and Hopefully get some more exercise!

So...... I was just wondering if there is anything that I can do to sort of kick my metabolism?

My yahoo pageMy Website

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Hey : You sound as if you don't beleive the "they" people. I think you need to trust your gut here. 50 mcgs is usually not enough for full replacement. I would switch to a holistic or integrative doc who takes your weight (edema) into account. Hypothyroidism...can make it impossible to lose that kind of weight. As an added to tip.. (you may just want to ask the new mr. holistic if you could just add some armour to your protocol and have him monitor both your t3free and t4free) This way you'll get both your frees up...which where you need to be once on replacement (Those ranges most docs go by are for people who are NOT on replacement) You need a doc that uses them differently for you now that you are on replacement. ~E:) GwraigMel@... wrote: Hi all, I was just wondering.......... is there a way to kick start your metabolism after being diagnosed with hypothyroid!? As

some of you know I was diagnosed in September last year with hypothyroid. My problem is ............. I wanna lose weight! But my body won't get into gear, and coz they say my thyroid levels are fine I won't get any more thyroxine. I am only on 50mcg of Levothryoxine. So......... after the easter weekend, where I am not going to miss out on my chocolate lol I am going to start reducing what I eat. and Hopefully get some more exercise! So...... I was just wondering if there is anything that I can do to sort of kick my metabolism? My yahoo pageMy Website ~EG Connecticut Total-T 2 years ago / 60 mg Synthetic/135mg Armour

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So......... after the easter weekend, where I am not going to miss

out on my

> chocolate lol I am going to start reducing what I eat. and

Hopefully get

> some more exercise!

>

> So...... I was just wondering if there is anything that I can do

to sort of

> kick my metabolism?

Actually as dumb as this sounds reducing what you eat will slow down

your metabolism, not increase it..

Your body needs energy in order to increase its metabolism, this

energy comes in the form of food..

I am underwieght, actually I am at a good wieght now but fight to

keep it on and it took me almost 4 years after my last pregnancy to

gain wieght..I do have family over wieght and lots of friends..the

two main differences between us besides the obvious wieght issue..I

eat more than them, they skip breakfast and sometimes even lunch..

My cousin was on and off diets like crazy, usually losing a little

only to give up and end up 10 lbs heavier than she was before she

started.. she still has a little to go but with out changing

anything in her diet( she eats healthy) I got her to change her

clock..now she eats breakfast and lunch, snacks during the day and

eats dinner..last snack is 7:30..it was hard at first cause she

never woke up hungry..had to start by forcing a fruit or half a

piece of bread in..now she wakes up hungry..and cause she eats all

day she is not hungry at night..she has lost 45 lbs in the last

year..so this is something to think about..

Also your thyroid will and does effect your metabloism and your

bodies ability to lose wieght.. wieght issues aside..do you feell

hypo even with your labs in normal ranges?? If you do then it is

time to look at those normal ranges, where you sit and what is

normal for you..if your doc thinks you want an increase as a diet

pill he will fight you..if your doc can see symptoms other than

wieght and can increase your T4 still keeping you in the normal

ranges just at the upper end of it he maybe more apt to play along.

Kats3boys

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Problem with the green tea though is that it contains fluoride.. bad for thyroid hormones..

The fidgeting... yep... I've read that time and time again... I 'get it' so well that I'm now a foot bopper. If I'm sitting down or have my feet up I wiggle does... tap fit... and do a press and release thing when my feet are up that is like pushing and release a brake peddle in the car.... I do it allll the time.. and a do a lot of arm wigglies and torso bops too... helps with the oxygenation of the limbs - circulation of the blood... and it helps with draining my lymph fluid too... I think that's how I've been able to keep my feet and ankles looking like feet and ankles and not like foot balls! hehehehe

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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:15:01 -0500 Tammy Wolfgram writes:

Hi ,

I know of a couple of things that are supposed to help. Green

tea is supposed to elevate metabolism slightly. You can drink

several cups of tea a day or get green tea capsules. Some

vitamins contain whatever it is in green tea that affects the

metabolism. Sorry I can't think of the chemicals.

Another thing is to make sure you eat early in the day. That

wakes up your metabolism, so to speak. Also aerobic exercise

elevates metabolism for several hours after you have finished

exercising, so that's good to know.

Make sure you don't drop your calorie level too low, or your

body will go into starvation mode, reserving calories by

lowering metabolism. I have read that the minimum calorie

levels for women is 1200. I usually aim between 1500 and

1800 myself, but a lot depends on your weight and activity

level.

I read an article once that said that people who fidgety had

an easier time losing weight than those who could sit still

for long periods of time. Their conclusion was that even

small but frequent movements contributed to an increase

in metabolism. So drive everyone nuts and start fidgeting!

I'd like to say if you did those few things, the weight would

just fall off, but I struggle to lose weight and have ever since

I was dxed with Hashi's.

Best of luck with your weight loss. I'm working on the same

issue, so maybe we can cheer each other on.

Tammy

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lol.... foot balls.... lol...

*mental image of throwing around feet for a touch down*

hahahhahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/

thanks, i needed that!

-med

Re: Metabolism

Problem with the green tea though is that it contains fluoride.. bad for thyroid hormones..

The fidgeting... yep... I've read that time and time again... I 'get it' so well that I'm now a foot bopper. If I'm sitting down or have my feet up I wiggle does... tap fit... and do a press and release thing when my feet are up that is like pushing and release a brake peddle in the car.... I do it allll the time.. and a do a lot of arm wigglies and torso bops too... helps with the oxygenation of the limbs - circulation of the blood... and it helps with draining my lymph fluid too... I think that's how I've been able to keep my feet and ankles looking like feet and ankles and not like foot balls! hehehehe

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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:15:01 -0500 Tammy Wolfgram writes:

Hi ,

I know of a couple of things that are supposed to help. Green

tea is supposed to elevate metabolism slightly. You can drink

several cups of tea a day or get green tea capsules. Some

vitamins contain whatever it is in green tea that affects the

metabolism. Sorry I can't think of the chemicals.

Another thing is to make sure you eat early in the day. That

wakes up your metabolism, so to speak. Also aerobic exercise

elevates metabolism for several hours after you have finished

exercising, so that's good to know.

Make sure you don't drop your calorie level too low, or your

body will go into starvation mode, reserving calories by

lowering metabolism. I have read that the minimum calorie

levels for women is 1200. I usually aim between 1500 and

1800 myself, but a lot depends on your weight and activity

level.

I read an article once that said that people who fidgety had

an easier time losing weight than those who could sit still

for long periods of time. Their conclusion was that even

small but frequent movements contributed to an increase

in metabolism. So drive everyone nuts and start fidgeting!

I'd like to say if you did those few things, the weight would

just fall off, but I struggle to lose weight and have ever since

I was dxed with Hashi's.

Best of luck with your weight loss. I'm working on the same

issue, so maybe we can cheer each other on.

Tammy

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Well.. I would have like to have thrown them around... they were so swollen, the skin stretched so tight that they couldnt' bend to walk... and my toes... swollen and smashed together so that you couldn't even see light between them... now they are back to normal... my feet and ankles bend... and I can even get a finger between my toes to scratch when it itches! hehehehehe

... or for mud to squish up between them....

hehehehe

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On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:10:40 -0400 "medstudent2be" writes:

lol.... foot balls.... lol...

*mental image of throwing around feet for a touch down*

hahahhahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa/

thanks, i needed that!

-med

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>

> Have you noticed, Kat, in yourself, or others... that when the

body is

> sluggish, low metabolism, those are the folks that tend to be

skipping

> breakfast in the morning cuz they aren't hungry? They aren't

hungry in

> the morning cuz their metabolism isn't fired up and hollering for

> fuel....

>

> I could go on and on with this.....

Not with me..I just hit 130 lbs, my normal wieght was stuck at 115

for quite a while so I have had to increase my calories huge time..

I am 5'6 " . Me if I do not eat within 2 hours of getting out of bed I

am ready to black out..I bug my doc when he sends me for a fasting

glucose test that what did I do to piss him off..it is complete

torture on me and I will pack food and be eating before I even get

out of the lab..

I am not sure about the whole reason people skip breakfast..whether

it is the slow metabolism or they really are not hungry because they

are so use to skipping breakfast, too busy for it when the

metabolism is high that the body becomes accustomed not to eating in

the morning..

I do know though that out of the people I know from work, family and

friends..those trying to lose wieght or those overwieght he should

be losing wieght that 80% of them do not do breakfast..

Now whether they skip breakfast because the metabolism is slow or

the metabolism slows because they skip breakfast I do not know..more

of what came first..the chicken or the egg..

Kats3boys

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I didn't know that fluoride was bad for thyroid hormones.

I don't know if the water where I currently live is treated

with fluoride, but they were doing that a lot for people's

teeth. Do you know if they still do that? Also, do you

know if the capsules contain the fluoride? I'm assuming

the vitamins don't, since they just add the " active ingredients "

from the green tea.

Gee, now I even have to worry about drinking water!

Tammy

> Problem with the green tea though is that it contains fluoride..

> bad for thyroid hormones..

>