Stagnant Weight Loss

I am hesitant to suggest changing calories yet, as your medicine is fairly new. Did the doctor indicate how long it takes to start working? I'm not really familiar with treatment with hypothyroidism.

I will suggest starting to take various body measurements, which can give you solid data as to whether you are getting smaller. The measurements I suggest are:

- neck
- shoulders (circumference around the body)
- across chest
- around bra band
- waist at smallest point between ribs and navel
- waist at navel
- hips at largest part around butt
- thigh
- calf
- ankle
- upper arm
- forearm
- wrist

One last thing--when you first start an exercise program, your body may retain water. This helps your muscles recover from exercise. It is common to see a stall at the scale during this time. If you are eating in a deficit, your body will still be using its fat stores, meaning that you can be losing fat but not seeing scale movement because of the increase in water weight. The way to handle this is to wait it out. It is not unusual for the stall to last a month. In my first month of lifting weights, I gained 3 lbs due to water weight. The second month, I lost 3 pounds. So it took until about 9 weeks after starting to lift for me to see a scale number less than what I saw when I first started lifting.

aiasxyz wrote: »

Hello!

I've been eating around 1500-1700 calories for the past 6 weeks, a reduction of about 600 calories in what I was used to eating. I was also diagnosed with hypothyroidism and was placed on medication about 5 weeks ago. The scale hasn't moved at all, despite noticing some areas like my abdomen and thighs feeling a bit slimmer/tighter.

Am I doing something wrong?

Have you gone back to your doctor to validate that your dosage is correct? My sister has hypothyroidism and I don't know a lot about it but I'm pretty sure she got her dosage adjusted a couple of times before finding the right level of medication.

I have hypothyroidism (my thyroid was removed, yay) and it can play havoc on weight loss. Since you were recently put on meds, your system is likely getting used to them, and it can be very fussy about correct dosage. I would reach out to your dr and let them know what is going on and see if they can test your T3 and T4 (both of them are important - usually they just test the T3).
It's also important you're taking your dosage at the same time, either 2hrs after eating, and then waiting 1 hr to eat/drink anything besides water. Shoot, your thyroid can flux from foods too, so cut out any soy products (lecithin is ok as it doesn't contain soy protein) as well. Do research as there are other foods as well, soy's just the most prevalent thing (it's everywhere).