Wed, Jan-07-04, 16:18
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Senior Member
Posts: 632
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Plan: DANDR
Stats: 191/153/145
BF:
Progress: 83%
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I should have been a little more specific, too. My thyroid was removed 7 years ago and it took quite some time for my system to recover from being a mess for long time. My thyroid went back and forth from under to over producing...in otherwords, I was suffering from "Hashimoto" as well as "Graves". Not only was I suffering from thyroid disease, I was also peri-menoposual. I gained weight during all this, but gained the majority after the thyroid was removed. It took a long time to get the correct dosage of medication pinpointed, and then time to get to the point where I realized I needed to buckle down and lose the weight. All that being said...the weight didn't fly off, but I followed Atkins "cleanly" and took to heart his advice to eat until I wasn't hungry, but not to stuff myself. Compared to some people who post on this forum, I have lost slowly. But I have lost at a steady pound a week and have never stalled. I don't count calories, but do keep in mind the fact that I can't eat all day, or eat piles at meals, and expect to lose. Following Dr. A's recommended foods and fats, I had more trouble with making myself eat than with eating too much. And I also took to heart his admonishment that "exercise is non-negotiable". I don't have the energy I had before my thyroid trouble so exercising is much harder for me, personally, than the eating restrictions. You need to read his book, follow his plan, and if you are honestly doing all this and still not losing weight, try a different plan. I lost more, faster on the Zone, but it is not a plan I can live with for the rest of my life.
Doreen is right...my endo told me if asked about thyroid function, with the correct dosage of hormone replacement, I am considered "normal thyroid", even without one.
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