looking for hypothyroid buddies

I was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid with goiter which is the swelling of the neck when I was 16 years old. It's a struggle everyday. I will be so tired that I do not want to get out of bed. A lot of people at work think that I just need more sleep, but don't understand that I have thyroid issues. Nor do I care to share it because I don't want it to be an excuse. I have a sign a coworker got me that says "Yawnville"!

Motivation has never been my problem its my weight that keeps stalling no matter how hard I workout and that's when I get frustrated and depress..I really hope to find resolution soon because all I want to do is be at a healthy weight..I'm not even looking to be super skinny just out of the obese range

^^^This!

I've been diagnosed since January, and am currently taking Synthroid. I've lost 14 pounds since then, but let me tell you it is a STRUGGLE. I do bootcamp 3 days a week and supplement those classes with the Insanity DVD workouts. I too just want to be at a healthy weight, so I feel your frustration. It's especially frustrating when you see (or hear) people around you dropping weight like it's nothing. But slow and steady I guess, right?

I'm eating 1800 because I'm breastfeeding at the moment but once I wean him off the boon (lol) I'll see what I need to take in once he's off

I started out 8 yrs ago with Graves Diease after I had severe preclaimpsia during my last pregnancy.
Then I had radioactive treatment which also made me hypothyroidism. So I am not currently taking
Levothyroxin but have to alternate each day from 75 mg and 50 mg since my body is very sensitive more than
the standard person would be to this medicine. I just want to loose 10 lbs but it just seems so hard to do.
There are alot of factors that impact your weight such as bringing your thyroid within the normal balance range,
your diet (finding nutritional balance eating 5 mini meals per day), reducing your stress level, other medicine interactions may cause some level of conflict and increasing your level of activity to 30mins to 1 hour every day. My doctor recommended
to at least walk 2 miles everyday. These are some of the things that I had to learn which truly worked.
Prior to my pregnancy issues, I weighed 121 lbs then during my pregnancy I gained weight up to 181 lbs. After I had my
child I weighed 108 lbs and now I am 133 lbs. There are so many things in our environment that will also cause problems with the thyroid such as flouride from toothpaste and chlorine from swimming pools. I just took time to research something everyday on how to improve the thyroid every day until I mastered this issue. There is alot of information online and this seems to such as very common thing now in our time unfortunately. Well, hope this helps in some way. Thanks all for sharing your stories.

Cool!!! I'll keep the same intake although I have to confess I'm struggling to even get there the most I eat is about 1200-1500

If I find that I'm not hungry enough to eat all my calories, I reach for the peanut butter. It's one of my favorite calorie-dense foods and you don't have to eat much of it to get to your daily calorie goal. Protein powder added to smoothies, or even with water, is another good source (and great for right after those Insanity workouts to refuel those muscles and helps on the recovery time too). If you have a GNC near you, I suggest the GNC Pro Performance® AMP Amplified Wheybolic Extreme 60. Or here's a link to get it online:

http://www.gnc.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3509954&cp=3593186.3593187.2108294

It's a little on the pricey side, but it's the best stuff that I've found out there.

Good luck starting the workouts tomorrow! They're nuts at first, but they're addicting. One of my favorite Shaun T quotes: "That *kitten* is BA-NANAS, Yo!" I think he says that at the end of the Pure Cardio DVD.