Re: help! Cant loose weight

[Guest guest]

you will never lose weight on T4 alone---won't happen.

Gracia

> How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated adequately?

> Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please help.

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[Guest guest]

Hi, I was working out 3 times a week, but I upped the intensity and also now

do it 5 days and I'm finally losing and I hadn't been able to for 2 years.

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Subject: help! Cant loose weight

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 23:01:43 -0000

How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated adequately?

Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please help.

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[Guest guest]

Gracia,

I'm on T4 alone and am losing weight. Some people have T3 levels in the

upper quadrant and don't need anymore and can still lose weight. It just

may take more work than a person without thyroid problems.

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From: " Gracia " <circe@...>

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Subject: Re: help! Cant loose weight

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:11:25 -0400

you will never lose weight on T4 alone---won't happen.

Gracia

> How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated adequately?

> Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please help.

>

>

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[Guest guest]

I went on a low-carb diet( Protein Power), and drank a gallon of

water a day, and worked out with a neighbor 1 -2 hours a day. We did

weights( pretty serious routine) for 3 days a week and some form of

aerobics(kickboxing or walking our 3.5 mile neighborhood in 1 hour)

almost every day. I didn't lose like she did which got me frustrated

as it wasn't coming off of the scales, but my clothes SLOWLY but

surely started to fall off. It CAN BE DONE. The trick I think is to

find your carb level AND to get the weights involved to build muscle.

Oh I'm also on t4 only.

P

> How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated adequately?

> Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please help.

[Guest guest]

Pierce wrote:

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> Gracia,

> I'm on T4 alone and am losing weight.

Me too, but I'm following Atkins. - Chuck Blatchley

> > you will never lose weight on T4 alone---won't happen.

> > Gracia

[Guest guest]

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> you will never lose weight on T4 alone---won't happen.

> Gracia

Well, as another perspective, I did lose weight. And continue to. But with

me, I think a slow metabolism was only part of the reason I put on weight in

the first place... because of other symptoms my exercise dropped to

virtually NIL and I was depressed and comfort eating a little, etc.

I feel good on T4 now (it took a couple years for my body and medication to

settle together into a reasonably stable pattern, fingers crossed). I only

lost a little weight for a while, just by being able to be awake normal

hours every day and eating a little better.

Then I realised that the amount I was exercising and eating was enough to

maintain a healthy weight, but it wasn't enough to lose the excess I'd

gained... it's the simple basic rules of slow dieting that have helped me

lose more than 25 pounds painlessly over the last year.

Good luck.

[Guest guest]

yup,.me too,..I am on Atkins and have lost 30lbs...slowly but I have

been holding steady!!!:)

[Guest guest]

I did...almost 20 pounds. Sheila

--- Gracia <circe@...> wrote:

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> you will never lose weight on T4 alone---won't

> happen.

> Gracia

>

> > How do you loose weight once your thyroid is

> medicated adequately?

> > Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything

> right. Please help.

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Well, Ive been exersizing 5 days per week and eating low fat and low

carb since december...no luck...im really thinking about liposuction

> Gracia,

> I'm on T4 alone and am losing weight. Some people have T3 levels

in the

> upper quadrant and don't need anymore and can still lose weight.

It just

> may take more work than a person without thyroid problems.

>

>

>

>

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> From: " Gracia " <circe@g...>

> Reply-hypothyroidism

> <hypothyroidism >

> Subject: Re: help! Cant loose weight

> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 20:11:25 -0400

>

>

> you will never lose weight on T4 alone---won't happen.

> Gracia

>

> > How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated

adequately?

> > Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please

help.

> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Hi and thank you. But...what do you mean by " carb level " ?

> > How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated

adequately?

> > Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please help.

[Guest guest]

Have you ever read any of the Atkins or really any of the low-carb

eating books? Everyone has their own level of carbs they can handle

before they either maintain or lose weight. Mine was evidently pretty

low but then once my metabolism kicked in I HAD to put more carbs in

my diet, or I couldn't get through my workouts nor my day. I

probably ended up around 60-70 ( sorry, once I got used to the diet I

didn't keep a journal and just kind of added in the good carbs)

You just have to find the right combination for you. If you haven't

read any of the low-carb books or websites, I would suggest that you

do. Also, you might try looking at The Zone diet. It deals with the

same thing but is a little more mathematical I think. I think the

trick is keeping a food diary.

P

> > > How do you loose weight once your thyroid is medicated

> adequately?

> > > Ive been trying for 9 months. Doing everything right. Please

help.

[Guest guest]

Well, Ive been exersizing 5 days per week and eating low fat and low

carb since december...no luck...im really thinking about liposuction

Well I have been sort of lurking and learning here and went to Dr. yesterday

for another test. I also have worked out 5 days a week, 12-1600 calories a

day and weights 5 times a week too. I have gained and let me tell ya it is

soooo frustrating to know that if it was a normal person they would be skin

and bones. I am not able to do what it took years ago -I ran 35 miles or

more a week, 1200 calories a day 10% fat and that was to maintain I did not

lose at all. This was before I found out about the hypothyroid I have. I

was told however by the Dr. to not worrry about the scale, watch my clothes

and the fact that I am healthy is more important. Thin does not mean you are

healthy. I have had two colds in 25 years and that is about it for me. I

never even went to a Dr. till last year and it had been over 20 years since

I had been to one.

If you keep up your routine if anything you will be healthy and that right

now is most important I think.

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