Underactive thyroid and weight gain

juliebowman4

Has anyone here been diagnosed with an under active thyroid?
I got a call from my Dr's office yesterday with a referral appointment to an endocrinologist as my blood work showed my thyroid just ain't pulling its weight.
Suddenly, all my symptoms made sense.
I'm just wondering, if once medicated and my metabolism kicks back in.....if some of the extra weight will just come off? The way it just 'appeared'?
Or is this wishful thinking ........?

siluridae

No, it is not just gonna go away. You have to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight, lazy thyroid or not.

brower47

Well, if one of your symptoms was complete lack of energy and your energy returns once your levels get adjusted, then it might feel like it just comes off as your activity level automatically increases. It will still be a result of the CI < CO equation.

Need2Exerc1se

If the weight "appeared" without a change in calorie consumption, then it might come off once they get your thyroid regulated, assuming there still is not a change in calories.

An underactive thyroid can change the CO part of the equation so it could change your BMR.

juliebowman4

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

If the weight "appeared" without a change in calorie consumption, then it might come off once they get your thyroid regulated, assuming there still is not a change in calories.

An underactive thyroid can change the CO part of the equation so it could change your BMR.

The weight (40lbs heavier than my 'normal' weight) slowly appeared over the last 18-22months.....
I attributed it to quitting smoking (23months ago)
even though my dietary habits didn't change.
I really thought I was experiencing menopause which was what prompted the Dr visit.....but most of my symptoms were more in line with a thyroid disorder

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Duchy82

Unfortunately once your medication is right you will still need to put the effort in to lose the weight as normal.

Pawsforme

In my experience the weight won't just magically melt away. But once your medication kicks in (it took about six weeks for that to happen for me) you may find that weight loss is relatively easy. I'm one of those people who gained w/o a change in calorie intake (as far as I know) or exercise, though. I do think that a good portion of the 10-12 pounds I gained was really fluid. It sure felt like it, and that may be why once the medication kicked in I lost several pounds relatively quickly.

I hear you on blaming the symptoms on menopause. I did that for months, and put off going to the doctor because I told myself all women have to go through it, and that I didn't want to be a whiner. After the blood work came back and showed an under-active thyroid I could have kicked myself for waiting so long!

Kalikel

Mine has. I don't have a thyroid and have lost almost 100 pounds. Every ounce of it came off after I began taking the pills. I'd tried to lose before and was always unsuccessful. As soon as the thyroid problem was fixed, the pounds started coming off.

I have to work at it, like everyone else. It's not magical in the sense that the pounds just fall off no matter how much I eat. It's not an advantage over people who don't take the pill, as some people close to me have suggested ("Wish I could get a magic weight loss pill. Must be nice!") It just gives me what healthy people already had. But after so many years of trying to lose and failing, trying and succeeding seems a little magical and wondrous, lol.

I don't lose as quickly as the math suggests a person will lose or as quickly as some other people on the board can lose, but I can lose! As long as I can, I will, so if takes a little longer, I just don't care. Success is success, slow or not!

The weight loss is great, but overall energy level and ability to poop like a normal person are wonderful, too. I do not swallow Colace all the time and don't have Dulcolax as a box to check off on the grocery list any longer, lol. Having energy...I just cannot say enough wonderful things about it.

After giving birth to the cutest baby ever, having my thyroid corrected was the best thing to happen to me in my life. I'm like a whole new person.

ettaterrell

Kalikel wrote: »

Mine has. I don't have a thyroid and have lost almost 100 pounds. Every ounce of it came off after I began taking the pills. I'd tried to lose before and was always unsuccessful. As soon as the thyroid problem was fixed, the pounds started coming off.

I have to work at it, like everyone else. It's not magical in the sense that the pounds just fall off no matter how much I eat. It's not an advantage over people who don't take the pill, as some people close to me have suggested ("Wish I could get a magic weight loss pill. Must be nice!") It just gives me what healthy people already had. But after so many years of trying to lose and failing, trying and succeeding seems a little magical and wondrous, lol.

I don't lose as quickly as the math suggests a person will lose or as quickly as some other people on the board can lose, but I can lose! As long as I can, I will, so if takes a little longer, I just don't care. Success is success, slow or not!

The weight loss is great, but overall energy level and ability to poop like a normal person are wonderful, too. I do not swallow Colace all the time and don't have Dulcolax as a box to check off on the grocery list any longer, lol. Having energy...I just cannot say enough wonderful things about it.

After giving birth to the cutest baby ever, having my thyroid corrected was the best thing to happen to me in my life. I'm like a whole new person.

Lol I can so relate to the bathroom issues!!!

Yi5hedr3

Forget meds. Feed that starving thyroid, with one Iodoral caplet daily.