I am no expert
fitcounselor
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I am no expert; I have no medical training. I am just a girl who was diagnosed with Hashimotos when I was prego with my oldest child (almost 9 years ago). I had hoped that it was simply "pregnancy-related" but when it didn't revert back to "normal" I continued to take my replacement hormone. I ballooned up to 200 lbs and finally found ways to get healthy! So, I'm at my "goal" weight for the most part but I find that if my diet slips in the SLIGHTEST, I gain. I went super clean eating and I went into hyper...it is still a struggle to eat for my thyroid and my workouts, but it is a journey. I take it one day at a time!
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Wow, congrats on getting to and maintaining your goal weight. I can understand how hard it is to keep a balancing act. Before being diagnosed for my thyroid I still had to be careful, some things would flare up my chronic fatigue & fibro. Now I am trying to get back down to my goal weight after I ballooned up the last two years. Even then I had plateaued for a few years and could not get below 170lb, (25lbs above my actual goal weight) no matter what I did I could not loose... I think I had thyroid problems then but it was so slight it was hard to detect... even now my blood work comes back in the "normal" range which is why I had to find a specialist that would look at my overall symptoms and not just a number, it got really bad the last two years when I suffered a bad flare up of chronic fatigue & fibro that seem to last way past 6 months... before I could manage through my flare ups and still function... this time however it was like my body completely shut down on me, I knew it had to be something else going on. Yes all we can do is take it one day at a time.
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Yes! That's all we can do!! Good for you! We have to advocate for ourselves and one another, right!!??0
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100% Correct, if we don't do it... no one will! 0
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Hi my name is Crystal. I was diagnosed with Hypothyroidism almost 6 yrs ago after my first child. I was on levo until my prego with my daughter. Dr put me on synthroid. After prego I tried going back to levo but after a week i knew I needed synthroid. So i have been overweight for the last 10 yrs. Last october I finally got insurance through work and found out they had a weight manangement program. So with this I had to get my blood work done. I weighed in at 224 the most i have ever weighed. My results came back and my tsh was up so he upped my synthroid. I could tell a difference right a way that I felt better. In January is when I started the program. I get to work with a trainer, a dietitian and counselors. The first month I worked my but off. We measure and weigh one time a month. I stepped on the scale after a month and lost nothing. She measured me and I lost 5 in off my waist alone. 2 in around my chest and more in other places. So I made progress except for the scale. So I though it was just a flux. Since then I have been working just the same and have lost a total of 16 inches from my body but still no weight. I didn't understand why I wasn't losing weight. I went back to dr to check thyroid again but this time I asked him to check more than just my tsh. Which he did. It came back that my tsh was in range but my antibodies were through the roof. He sent me to an endo. Which was a waste of my time. I learned more in my own research than what he told me. I explained to him my inabliity to lose weight. He told my bod was just in the beginning stages and will eventually the weight will just drop off. Also he said it is normal for antibodies to be high with hypo. I didn't believe that. I then brought up what I had learned from my own research. What about hoshimotos disease? he said yeah that is what you have. I was like, I do. yup you do. He told me to take an antidepressent and one more pill on sundays and come back in three months. Lets just say I was not happy and frustrated. Haven't been back to my dr yet to talk more with him but I have a feeling this is a battle that I will have to do on my own.
I have been using mfp and really like this site. It is nice to find fellow people that are going through the same as me.0
