No time to wallow. It’s time to work.

Nixxi321

I finally know the reason. After a lifetime of beating myself up for not being able to maintain a healthy weight I finally know why it felt like I was running up a down escalator. Two rounds of tests show hyperthyroidism. Not hypo. Not the kind that usually makes people big. Hyper like my grandma had. She was 90 soaking wet while I top the scales around 300. The doctor thinks it’s Hashimoto’s disease but my numbers are playing a bit of peekaboo. The only thing we know for sure is that it’s stressing out my heart. My resting heartbeat is around 120 but my blood pressure is on the low side. So the pills to slow my heart also make me dizzy. Words like cardiac arrest were used and I’m scared because I have so much to lose. New house, new job, new baby boy and a husband I adore. I need to live and I need to be healthy. Unfortunately, the best way to do that is to stop an already slow metabolism by slowing my thyroid. When I told my doctor that I was worried I’d gain even more weight and all he said was that we will deal with issues as they come. He isn’t as concerned about my weight as he is my heart but he doesn’t have to live in a body that already gets winded doing nothing, that aches after minimal exercise, and already busts out of a size 24. Still I need my heart so for now I’m stuck trying to diet my way through since exercise is out. Well, diet and prayer because it may just take divine intervention to not end up on my 600 lb life.

JeromeBarry1

You can succeed at losing weight. It's not easy, but it is simple.

BMcC9

Go to the "Getting Started" board. The very first pinned thread is "Adopt a Noob" (entry to paired threads for linking potential mentors and mentees). Read the opening post on how to contact a potential mentor, then take a look at the mentor profiles . When you find a good match of description of what one is offering vs what you are able to do, follow the guidelines to make contact.

So long as you are taking in fewer calories than than your body currently needs to maintain itself in a coma, the weight will drop (just expect it to take longer ... and think of it more as "learning a new, sustainable lifestyle" rather than "a diet" )

(BTW, I am NOT in the Mentor program, so don't look for me ... but I have made it a bit of a mission to point people who are just starting towards this resource)

Nixxi321

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

You can succeed at losing weight. It's not easy, but it is simple.

I’m definitely going to continue to try and at least I know what the problem was. I mean I’d diet and exercise with friends over the last 20 years and they would have dramatic results and it took everything I had to maintain.