Switching from Optavia and nervous!

Please please please do not eat fewer than 1200 calories a day. MFP sets that up as the lowest calorie level for a woman, and it is basically geared toward a person who is sedentary. You will indeed lose weight eating more. I recommend in addition to weighing yourself, that you take your measurements at bust, waist, and hip. You will be able to notice progress that way, too.

Please look at what you are eating because insufficient food will also aggravate Hashimoto's. Depending on the way your body is interpreting your Hashimoto's, there are some 300 possible symptoms and we each have our own group which is partly why it is so hard to diagnose, exercise can put additional pressures on the other impactful endocrine glands, pituitary then the adrenal. Its far more complicated than the General Western medicine system will concede. Please try reading around your personal symptoms.

Avoiding processed, pre-packaged food, ones which can have added sugar when we would not add sugar were we working the recipe ourselves, can help. Some find relief of some symptoms by avoiding dairy, it can be the lactose but most likely a reaction to the more common casein - dairy protein (bovine). Goat milk products may be helpful, its more like human milk and has type 2 casein which is considered more easy to digest. (I felt better within 48 hours)

Grains containing gluten can be another item to consider eliminating after you try bovine milk. Eliminating this can take some time to feel results some 6 months others 12months, though some do better after at least 6 weeks.

Cruciferous vegetables, ones which when they go to seed have four petal flowers can in some also be a trigger. You mentioned soy this too is a well know trigger.

As I mentioned above, we all present Hahsh in our own personal way. One of my suggestions may help you, all could but even none it is that hit and miss.

The one thing I do know, the longer you under eat the more other issues you are at risk of creating. I'm speaking as a Gt grandmother and want all who can, avoid the breadth of additional, unnecessary reactions I have. There is no one way to be healthy, the only way is to discover what is right for yourself and you alone, from there we can fall under umbrellas but achieving health is what it should be about.


Very best wishes

algrif37 wrote: »

I’m sedentary with my job but try to work out at least 3 days a week and hope to work up to 5 days a week. I don’t eat back my exercise calories -save them up for a meal out or special splurge. I’ve just done starvation diets for so long it seems I put in weight if I even eat just 1300-1400 calories. It’s very discouraging but I’m trying to repair everything and just be normal!! I have been measuring myself but need to do a follow up on that as well. Thanks for the encouragement!

How tall are you? Unless you are really, really short, it is unlikely that you are gaining on 1300-1400 calories. What's more likely is that you are making common errors that we might be able to spot if you change your Diary Sharing settings to Public: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/account/diary_settings

Also, restrict/binge cycles will also make you not lose weight. Better to eat more and lose slowly and sustainably.