Let's do this for real!!!

Something similar happened to me. I had thyroid surgery in 2005 and so I only have half a thyroid. My thyroid labs kept coming back and saying that my levels were normal/correct even though I wasn't taking any thyroid hormone supplement. For two years I was 100% convinced they were wrong. I had successfully lost weight before and I could not figure out why I was not losing weight. This was after I had two kids, was trying to lose weight in my 30s not my 20s, etc. At one point, I was so convinced that my thyroid numbers were wrong that I traveled to the Mayo Clinic and saw an endocrinologist to be absolutely sure. After being told the same thing, I realized I just had to do something totally different to lose weight.

For me, that has been eating a very, very small number of calories. I have been losing weight but only when I eat ~1,100 calories a day. This is something else I was in denial about--two years ago, my doctor told me that I would have to go down to 1,000 calories per day to lose the weight which sounded nutso to me but it has basically been true. On days when I do really heavy exercise, I may eat ~1,700 calories but if I am losing and not maintaining, I definitely need to be at 1,000 to 1,100 per day.

I recently decided to do physician-assisted weight loss. My doctor has me on specific vitamin supplements and I also get weekly B-12 shots and take a prescription appetite suppressant. I lost 9 lbs on my own since the beginning of the year, but I was having a lot of problems being hungry (to the point that I would be so hungry by the end of the day that I would just break down and eat). Then I got an injury that has prevented me from doing any exercise for the past 4 weeks. Not being able to exercise was the straw that broke the camel's back and made me do physician's assisted. I don't want to gain back the weight I just lost.