Fibromyalgia & Underactive thyroid weight loss struggles !!!

When my medication is optimal and my thyroid is properly regulated, I still don't lose weight as I did before I developed health issues. It varies from person to person depending on your health situation. Just keep at it and focus on being healthy rather than obsessing over a number on the scale.

Eat a well-balanced, nutritious diet. Eat enough calories to fuel your life, your health and your workouts. Give it time. Others may be able to lose a pound a week. You may be able to lose only a pound every two months. If this is a permanent change, you'll get there eventually.

I would say if you're struggling to lose off your stomach only, that might never happen. You can't really chose where your body is going to lose weight.

I am hypo-T and my stubborn doctor doesn't take me down to what would be optimized (and finding a replacement for my former endo who moved has been a *ich with a capital C), and I am menopausal. I don't feel I have it harder than anyone else when it comes to weight loss. My weight loss is slow but that's because I am at a very small deficit, because I absolutely love to eat and eat some more.

I really don't have to eat differently to lose weight than before I started medication and literally cried each morning thinking how exhausting it was going to be to put my legs over the edge of the bed and stand up, was constipated all the time and my eyebrows were falling out. I was fatter then not because I was unmedicated but because when I COULD stand up, I was heading blearily for the fridge, weirdly thinking food was going to give me my missing energy, no matter how many times it...didn't. (I seem to be a slow learner in this regard.)

Start at the recommended deficit, see what happens. You may lose just fine, many of us hypo-Ts do, and if the fibro means you can't work out, well, many people lose without working out. Many. Weigh weigh weigh everything so you really know (as close as reasonably possible) how much you're eating, and how much you can eat. Don't worry about having to learn any special tricks or tips yet. You don't know at this point that you'll need any at all. Just start at a baseline, see what happens and IF you need to tweak from there, so be it...when you get there.

Don't automatically think it's going to he harder for you...everybody has challenges. It takes effort. Nobody has the perfect health and life situation. You've got this, so go at it with a positive attitude.

Hi all,
I just seen this thread, newbie here. I suffer with Fibro and under-active thyroid due to a Full TT because of Thyroid cancer. I did lose nearly 2 stone before having my thyroid out, but gradually over the last 2 years it's crept back on. I have just found out that even though my dose of 300 thyroxin is not keeping my levels where they should be, but they don't know why.
I've just started my eat well plan (not calling it a diet - I hate that word!)

Be grateful to anyone who has had some success, and would share their tips too. Also nice to talk to other members who suffer from the same complaints .