I am hopelessly in need of some of your help :)

Hey! If I could make a suggestion, it looks to me like you are eating too few calories.

As much as MFP might imply different, calories arent the enemy entirely. There are days where I eat 2400 calories, but it is all clean natural food and my body responds really well to that!

My second and possibly more important suggestion is to stay away from anything out of the freezer, a box or package. They are all stuffed with fillers. Add more veggies as they fill you up and have nothing bad in them! If you are going to have a burger make them and then you are in control of the fillers if you even feel as though you need them!

Good luck! Keep up the good work!

I have very similar statistics as you. I'm 5'9" and 183 (was recently 192) and was recently diagnosed as both hypothyroid (Hashi's) and having insulin resistance. It was a very long path to find the right thyroid diagnosis -- I saw several docs, including two endos that said things were "fine" for years. I too am on natural dessicated thyroid -- though Nature-throid rather than Armor. This is what I found worked for me to make me lose weight/fat like a "normal" person:

(1) Do you know if you have any other issues other than hypo? When I finally found my thyroid specialist, he looked at a whole host of things beyond just thyroid -- glucose, insulin, adrenal issues, liver issues, vitamin deficiencies. My adrenals and liver were good, but he did find that I have insulin resistance, which he says he commonly finds with hypothyroid patients who have been untreated or undertreated. He also found some vitamin deficiencies -- D and magnesium in particular (I was find with idodine and the others). So, if you haven't had those checked, it may not be a bad idea as there could be something else other than the thyroid, like insulin resistance, making the weight loss difficult.

(2) I started eating a Primal diet -- this was prior to the diagnosis and the only thing that helped with my bouts of extreme fatigue I was experiencing. My doc thinks it's likely because something was triggering the hypo of Hashi's as Hashi's is auto-immune related and once I started not having that in my diet, the fatigue was less pronounced and as often. He suspects it was gluten as I did work dairy back into my diet (other common suspects are casein and lactose in dairy and lectins). Since it was discovered that I had insulin resistance, I watch my carbs. I keep them at 50-80 per day (total, not net). I also diligently weigh everything, so I'm really confident in my caloric intake. If you're not doing this yet, I'd highly recommend it. The combination of Primal with low-ish carbs has really worked for me and I feel awesome! If you want more info on Primal, check out marksdailyapple.com -- lots of good, free info there.

(3) Protein -- I take in 130 g of protein each day (which is 0.7 g per lb body weight). I've read that this and lifting heavy helps you maintain or minimize the loss of muscle when in a caloric deficit -- so you'll lose a higher percentage of fat. Taking this in with the Primal diet, this means I eat 1650-1750 cals each day, burn 2400-2700 on average with my exercise (see below), and carbs end up being about 10-15%, protein is 30-35% and fat is 50-60%.

(4) Meds -- as I said earlier, I started taking Nature-throid for the thyroid issues and I also take metformin for the insulin resistance. My doc says that after I take off the weight, I may not need the metformin anymore as I may have reveresed the insulin resistance -- it's not a guarantee, but it's a possibility. We'll see when I get there and have the glucose and insulin levels checked again.

(4) Exercise. I lift heavy -- 3x5 work out (i.e. Starting Strength) twice a week, as well as do weekly sprint sessions. I also walk/hike a lot -- 15-25 miles per week. As I said, I burn between 2400-2700 on average and I track this with a bodymedia armband -- I like to see all the numbers and have found its numbers to be in line with other calculations I've found online an other apps on my phone (I use smooth running to track miles/distance/calories on walks and hikes and their calorie burn is in line with what the armband says).

(5) Results. I was doing all of this before the diagnosis and meds and although I was feeling better over all, I still had some hypo symptoms and couldn't lose weight. I was eating/exercising at a daily 700 calorie deficit and took off 2.2 lbs over 3 months! Once I got dosed up for the thyroid and metformin, I lost 7+ lbs in the first month (previously, this would have taken me over 6 months before) -- I was finally losing like a "normal" person according to my deficits.

So, that's what has worked for me. Feel free to PM me if you want to discuss more details. Best of luck to you!

Be sure and have a COMPLETE Thyroid panel done and NOT just TSH. You'll want a Free T4 and T3 done in addition to TSH. Just because your TSH in within "normal" range doesn't mean your T4, FT4 & T3 are within acceptable limits. "The T3 test is not useful in DIAGNOSING hypo­thyroidism because levels are not reduced until the hypothyroidism is SEVERE". Just make sure it's ALL in sync.

I totally agree with this as this was my exact experience as well! Though i'd also throw in antibodies if it's auto-immune related (like Hashi's).

Exactly! You need the COMPLETE thyroid picture...not just one facet of it.
(dx w/Hashimoto's in 1995)

Be sure and have a COMPLETE Thyroid panel done and NOT just TSH. You'll want a Free T4 and T3 done in addition to TSH. Just because your TSH in within "normal" range doesn't mean your T4, FT4 & T3 are within acceptable limits. "The T3 test is not useful in DIAGNOSING hypo­thyroidism because levels are not reduced until the hypothyroidism is SEVERE". Just make sure it's ALL in sync.

I totally agree with this as this was my exact experience as well!

Thank you. Ever since I have been on synthroid the doc would say "you are normal". And she WOULDN"T run the Free T4 and T3 even after I asked. She said it wasn't necessary. That is why I am so glad I found someone to prescribe Armour. I have been on it for a month - can't really see much difference - so I hope after my bloodwork next week they will tell me the results and then maybe increase the dosage.

That was what happened with me too -- sooo frustrating! My doc looks at the whole picture -- blood tests as well as clinical symptoms. After all, he says, what's the point if you're "in range" and feeling poorly? Then, obviously, that's not the range for YOU (provided other things have been looked at). So, he not only looks for what is "in range" but what is optimal, an it's made all the difference for me.

I use Map My Fitness to log my exercise and food diary so I'm not really good at reading the MFP diaries just yet, but to me it seems like you are just not eating enough food (some days you have 600 calorie deficits)...erratic on the protein (many times not enough)...and I'm not seeing a commitment to serious exercise. I'm almost 53, been hypo-thyroid for 20 years (take 112 mcg Levothyroxin every day) and never could lose weight--mostly because I didn't try hard enough and blamed it on my thyroid. I sat on my butt almost the entire day for work--and I worked nights too, on my butt.

Roll back to late September when I finally woke up and quit blaming everything but me. I kicked myself in the butt and got a Planet Fitness membership, nixed diet soda and committed myself to a new way of living. No pills; no gimmicks. It's been almost 6 months and I've dropped 25 pounds (2 months of that I couldn't work out due to bronchitis and caring for my ill father in law).

If you need to lose 22 pounds in less than 60 days, don't worry about May 17. Worry about one day at a time and how you're going to meet that days' challenges for intake and exercise. You have already shown that you have good self control in your food diary. Now just get the support you need here and go for it full throttle.

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