Thyroids

ByronStorie
ByronStorie Posts: 1 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I have been recently diagnosed with low thyroids and have been put on hormone treatment. Just wondering if there are any particular foods that can help and any other advice. I'm 41years old male and putting weight on very rapidly. Moderately active and Moderately healthy eating

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  • creativecook18
    creativecook18 Posts: 4 Member
    I have the same for years. Check TSH regularly. My levels are out of whack so I am watching soy intake and not taking a fiber supplement in the a.m. It’s been what I should avoid. Eating healthy is my guide. Good luck and watch for symptoms so you are taking the lowest amount of medication. I’ve had anxiousness and feeling of heart racing so had to lower mine, common to med.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,941 Member
    Not really. Hyperthyroid is in a lot of cases an autoimmune condition, meaning your body sees your thyroid as an enemy and destroys it. I think stopping your body's immune response is not the way to go here.

    People who are hypothyroid often gain weight easily. This is due to a number of reasons: being tired and moving less. Being more hungry. Being not happy with how they feel and compensate by eating more or moving less. Fidgeting less, which amounts to a surprising number of calories. Some people see a water weight gain, which is not bodyfat. Yes, base metabolic rate might go down a tiny bit, but if you don't compensate for that (should it happen) then you gain a small amount of weight and then it stops. The other reasons above are much more important to keep in mind.

    So what can you do: Make sure your meds are spot on! There's no reason to feel rubbish with this condition. Doctors often just look at TSH, but fT3 and fT4 are equally important and should ideally be in the upper range. If you don't feel well go back to your doctor and request a higher dosage. After all, this is not medication you can get addicted to, this is replacing that what your body doesn't produce in sufficient amounts anymore. If you're overweight then eat less. Moving more is always good.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    There's a really great thread here about hypothyroidism and weight loss. It was written by a guy who's a scientist in the field of hypothyroidism, is hypothyroid himself, and who lost weight by calorie counting. Solid, authoritative information, in contrast to the world of nonsense about the subject that's so common on the web.

    Direct link:

    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10767046/hypothyroidism-and-weight-management

    I'm severely hypothyroid, have been for over 20 years, am properly medicated. (It takes some time for most people to get to a proper level of medication, because it's dangerous to take too much, so they work us up slowly in dosage, re-testing levels, until the right level is reached. Response to the meds is individual, not formulaic.)

    At age 59-60, properly medicated, I had no difficulty losing weight . . . as long as I ate the right number of calories. "The right number of calories" might be as predicted by MFP, might be fewer calories, might be more calories: That's true for everyone, and is more about how average the person is, than about how accurate MFP is.

    Follow MFP's recommendation (with a moderate weight loss rate, maybe 0.5%-1% of current weight weekly, bias toward the lower end of that). Do that for 4-6 weeks. If your weight loss per week averages out close to the loss rate goal, you're all set. If losing too slowly (or too fast) compared to that sensible rate goal, eat a little less (use the 500 calories per day = 1 pound per week rough estimate, plus some arithmetic, to adjust.)

    Rinse and repeat, until you dial in your personalized calorie needs estimate based on experience. Then just keep going (adjusting as you get lighter) until you reach goal weight.

    That should work.

    Best wishes!

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