Hypothyroidism and Weight Loss?

CSARdiver · December 2016

fittocycle wrote: »

Does anyone know if hypothyroidism will affect TDEE calculations? I wonder if it would change the final TDEE estimate? Thanks for any input!z

Laboratory results put REE/BMR at around 5% decrease. If your caloric intake is budgeted at 1500 and you are in an unmedicated hypothyroid state, then your CI would be ~1425.

TDEE is more reliant on activity and the only influence would be from the change to REE (still ~5%).

TR0berts · December 2016

SaraLynnFiske wrote: »

@Christine_72 Around here is Massachusetts, USA. I've never heard anyone talk about food scales. And if nobody is talking about food scales, or doing anything like that, in at least one conversation at one point, it's a pretty uncommon thing. They don't even really sell them around here. So I'm not sure what the hell everyone is shoving food scales up my butt for, but it's really getting on my last nerve. Tonight I entered in exactly what I ate, weighed it and everything (with a general-use gram scale my grandfather has), and would you look at that, still under my calorie goals for the day! But no, it's all because I need a food scale.

Hi! From down the road, in Connecticut, food scales are easy to come by. They're literally in every major supermarket and chain store that has kitchen equipment. Such as Stop and Shop - which is in Massachusetts.

In fact, I have two of them. Would you like one?

Also, I'd bet the reason you've never heard these talked about around town is simply because virtually nobody does talk about them when they're out and about.

thelatecomer · December 2016

If your hypothyroidism is adequately treated it shouldn't make any difference to your weight loss. Maybe worth checking your thyroid function tests if they haven't been done since you started trying to lose weight

CSARdiver · December 2016

SaraLynnFiske wrote: »

@GottaBurnEmAll I got down to "You may need to investigate further" The only things wrong with me, digestion and food related are : Hypothyroidism, Acid Reflux Disease, Caffeine intolerance, and a general intolerance of most water based foods like lettuce, watermelon, and celery...

Hypothyroidism is aggravated by being overweight. Hormones are free cycling and travel through the bloodstream, so increased body mass forces the body to work harder to maintain a hormonal balance. This is also why many need to have their thyroid hormones re-evaluated as they lose weight, especially in those who have undergone a full or partial thyroidectomy.

Other than that your intake is the primary driver in this. Double check your logs and take note of the 20% margin of error in calorie estimation to begin with. Focus on those foods that keep you satiated.

Success in managing hypothyroidism is about building routine. Don't do anything drastic, but start implementing small changes that you can see yourself doing for the next 20 years. Hit those small goals and then step it up a bit, making new goals and implementing new small changes. Before you know it you'll be posting your success story.

mrsloganlife · December 2016

Well I live in the US but brag all the time about my $12 food scale I got off of Amazon.com to everybody *sarcasm*

Nobody talks about food scales, doesn't mean that they don't have one.

Look @SaraLynnFiske as someone who was diagnosed a year ago with hypo, I thought "yay my medication will fix the weight struggles!"

Guess what? It didn't. You can still definitely lose weight while your medications are being worked out. I have hypo, PCOS and a blood disorder. Weight loss is slower than others, but it is weight loss.

With that being said...you have to use a food scale and log your weight. I was resistant too (but with a lot less attitude). I thought food scales were antique. And then earlier this year I bought a food scale. And I started weighing. And the next thing I knew 25 pounds were down.

It seems that you are extremely resistant to any advice that wasn't a pat on the back. That is where you will fail. The people on these forums, the ones that were successful, they were successful for a reason--LISTEN TO THEM!. If you are so resistant to hearing advice and fight back with serious attitude, you won't be successful.

You are doing what I did 2 years ago--I would find the lowest calorie of the food I was trying to log and then try and eyeball how much it was. I was consuming 500-1000 calories more than what my food log said. I was frustrated why the weight wasn't coming off. I rolled my eyes at people who said a food scale works. And that is why I didn't succeed. I was eating way more than I thought I was and a food scale helped me keep that in check.

Be open to the advice you will get. It won't be what you want to hear most of the time, but be receptive. Cut back on the attitude. You will succeed. Buy a food scale on Amazon.

Also, check out the recipe builder or log each food item separately. Ex you using Taco Bell for your homemade tacos. It's a pain in the you know what to log those ingredients in the homemade taco individually, but it helps. Or check out the recipe builder--I use that for all my homemade meals.

7ElizabethAnn7 · December 2016

Graves disease, 51 years old, post menopausal. Had thyroid radiated 14 years ago and have been on Levothyroxin ever since. Will be on it the rest of my life. I am very well versed with cooking and measurements. Everytime I cut a piece of cheese it is exactly 1 ounce. How do I know? I measure and weigh...EVERYTHING every single time. Lost 107 pounds in 365 days. The oh so terrible inconvenience of weighing is certainly worth it to me! True story...just sayin'.

LAWoman72 · December 2016

Probably only a minority, numbers-wise, of adults in the U.S. use food scales and consistently count, yes, and you know what...a minority are a normal weight (v. I believe now 75% overweight with greater than a third obese).

Which group do you want to be in?

Hypo here, Hashi's. When I was first DXd it took a year plus for my meds to he titrated correctly to my body's needs. There were literally days I could not lift myself out of bed for more than an hour before lying down - awake, because of my kids, but lying there and staring, trying to build my energy for another hour. I would lock myself in the safest room of the house with my children, lie still and stare at them while they were playing. During this time, if I ate a reasonable amount of calories my weight (I was overweight) dipped down. Reasonable as in, around 1400-1500. If I just grabbed whatever during a standing upright moment and didn't count the calories, or fudged to myself about how much I was really eating, I gained..and gained and gained...

I am now 49, 88 mcg Levo per day, perimenopausal, chronically low Vitamin D (with labs; I take a therapeutic dose) and have lost 50 lbs. this year. And yes, I had to stop estimating and get a food scale. I get it; it seems like "nobody else has to do this, it isn't fair." But what's unfair? MOST (by the numbers) adults DO have to be accurate in similar ways, or be fat. Look around you if you don't believe me. The idea that'd we calorie counters/weighers are so put upon and in a minority is an illusion. MOST people who just eat "whatever" are overweight ultimately. Even among that 25% non-overweight faction a percentage must be there because they *are* being careful, right? You are under a false assumption here. There are naturally rail thin people who eat whatever, but that percentage is SMALL plus guess what? They have their own problems. There is no "fair." Know what's unfair? You and I are sitting here without cancer while randomly throughout the world thousands of young moms or beloved grandpas or tiny children are receiving Chemo for Christmas. What's unfair? That you and I have to use the food scale? Stop comparing! You never know what the next person is going through.

I don't care if you're the only person in the state of Massachusetts who uses a food scale. Good, then you'll be the one slender person in the state of Massachusetts. Or not.

The choice is yours.

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