No weight gained over Thanksgiving. Not bad for eating so much. I ate to the point of STUFFED for three days straight, but I watched what I ate. Anything that might aggravate my gallstones (fried, fatty foods), I ate but not to excess. It was so yummy.
Ok. Today starts DAY 1 of my fitness goal. I am looking at an extra 14 pounds I want gone. Healthy eating and exercise starts today!
Read more...I've gained ten pounds. I am not happy about the way that looks at all. It all went to the trunk - no more curves:( It's also causing me a lot of back pain when I try to sleep on my stomach. I haven't had back pain like that since...before I lost the weight to begin with. Must be pulling my spine out of alignment?
Before I keep gaining weight and causing more damage to my back and spine, I need to get on a diet before I need laser spine to fix a damaged back!
I also have a vacation in May. That's my goal - to look AWESOME at a healthy weight by May.
A couple weeks ago I posted I was three days away from starting my diet. I haven't started it yet. I've been procrastinating:(
Part of it is my doctor reduced my T3 meds to see how I'd feel (even though I felt GREAT where I was) and it's brought back symptoms - including a couple pounds. Kind of discouraging. I'm calling my doc next week and telling him I'm going back to my old dose because getting thyroid disease symptoms back - no way, not going to accept that!
Part of it is school started (for my kids) and instead of having a lot of time to myself, I find myself running MORE with my kids out of the house and busier than ever with going back to work (work-at-home but still working).
The rest of it - let's face it, I love chocolate and certain foods that would not be acceptable on this healthier eating plan so I've been putting it off.
In three days, I will start my diet. I really hate to call it a diet because it really isn't. It's just a healthy way of eating that enables you to drop the pounds. I decided to start it when my kids go back to school because with them home all day now, it'd be harder to follow the first 17 days of it while preparing three meals a day for them. With them gone during the day, I'll be more apt not to graze on their food.
Read more...In a little more than a week, I am going to finish up with the weight loss. This is my last step to my final goal!! After getting the correct thyroid medication, I lost about 20 pounds. Unfortunately, the rest of the weight was being stubborn. I followed The 17 Day Diet: A Doctor's Plan Designed for Rapid Results
So, when school starts, I will start my final step in my weight loss goal. My kids will go to school and mom will go to work - literally, I am back to working from home and working on my health/weight! I turn 40 in October and I REFUSE to turn 40 out of shape. It won't happen. It can't happen. I'll be crying enough on my 40th birthday as it is:)
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OK, onto the weight loss I am experiencing right now:
I am on day 14 of my 17-day diet and have lost almost ten pounds. I would've lost more except I cheated a few times - kids wanted pizza, hubby ordered carrot cake - you know how it goes:( I am 2.9 pounds away from my first goal. Yeah!! After being overweight for almost ten years, I am feeling GREAT! Did I starve myself? Nope. Did I take pills that made living near the bathroom 24/7 a requirement? Nope. Did I fast? Nope. Liquid diet? Nope. Did I have to measure my food into small portions? Heck no! Did I eat all I wanted of the foods I was told to eat in phase 1 of the 17-day diet? Yes! (FYI - There are four phases to this eating plan, each phase is 17 days. I will probably go right from phase 1 to 4 because I've done so well with the weight loss.)
It has been coming off so easily too! My sister, who started this eating plan first with her partner, was having such good success with it, that I had to try it. My mother and my aunt are also doing it. We're all reaching our weight loss goals easily and we are eating healthy.
Diet isn't even the right word! It's a healthy eating plan. I am uber excited to have found a way to lose weight after being overweight for so long and without pills with warnings affixed to the bottle! Struggling with thyroid disease, I know how hard it is to lose weight and I know how depressing it can be to watch your body change and feel so out of control of it - that no matter what you do, you aren't losing weight.
This is what I used:
I have lost 7.8 pounds in eight days without diet pills or starving myself. Seriously. I don't have time to write all about it right now but I wanted to put a reminder here for myself to post about it. After years of struggling with my weight and thyroid, it's nice to start to see less padding!
I'll post about it soon!
Well, despite the holidays, when I feared I would gain weight instead of lose it (and I've not been eating as healthy as I should be - more chocolate and cheese than I need, not to mention a few drinks), I have lost another 1.2 pounds. The separate T3 is making such a big difference for me! I am very happy with the results so far. I feel better. I am not losing excessive amounts of hair. My skin is still crap but I have always had bad skin in the winter before thyroid disease so I don't think I can use skin condition as a thyroid function gage.
I've breached that weight plateau I was on the last few weeks and am now moving forward with my weight loss. I hope it continues!
Well, my weight loss has hit a plateau this week. That is a bit disappointing but with Christmas this next weekend, I don't have a whole lot of time to worry about it. I have a little more shopping to do and I'm done (still looking for a printer and tanzanite jewelry).
I'm just worried a bit that I'll gain over this next week - not because of overeating because my diet is limited due to my gallbladder - but because my hormones/metabolism has slowed down enough to stop the weight loss. I'm hoping it hasn't slowed down so much that the weight starts to come back again.
I was thinking today about my total weight loss this past year (with the ups and downs I have had), I lost 20 pounds in total (lost 19, 9 came back, and then I lost 10). That's not too bad I guess. Maybe if I lose it slow, it won't come back (since they say losing weight too fast isn't good). I can hope right? I can also hope that none of it comes back over Christmas.
Onto Christmas shopping...my stepdaughter is asking for a laptop. While I'd love to look at custom laptops for her, we're going to leave that "little" gift for her mother to give her. She supports two kids with our financial assistance. We support six. Yup, she can have that gift!
I'm heading out tomorrow to make another dent in our shopping. Hopefully, it doesn't snow tonight like they're calling for. I have too much to do and can't afford another snow day home!
I've finally dropped below 150 pounds as of this morning! Talk about psyched! My goal is to reach 133 pounds, but it is really going to depend on how thin it makes my legs look. I don't want sticks for legs and at 5'7", I might get sticks for legs if I lose too much. I want to keep some curves. With eating a bit healthier and an increase in my T3, it's going great! I haven't needed to break out the Lipofuze!
I'm feeling pretty good thyroid-wise as well. My hair loss has slowed down. My skin is getting worse though but I think that has a lot to do with the heat being on for winter.
I haven't had a gallbladder attack in a few weeks either. Every time I've had one, I've had potatoes that day. I really think that's my trigger.
I made it through the holidays without a gallbladder attack. While everybody enjoyed huge portions of what they loved, I had to stick to only a few bites of anything high in fat (like company potatoes - SOOOOO good). I didn't leave the table feeling stuffed like a turkey like everybody else but that's the breaks for me I guess.
Another positive - I didn't need to worry about weight gain over Thanksgiving, scrambling for diet pills that work so I could squeeze into something pretty for Christmas or New Year's Eve and overeat again. I can't overeat anything except the good stuff, and seriously, who wants to overeat carrots and celery? Not me!
My thyroid doc increased my T3 dose and I'm eating better (most of the time). The one time I didn't eat like I was supposed to, I had another gallbladder attack (happened last night). Potatoes that have met grease (hash browns, french fries) seems to be my gallbladder attack trigger. Between the T3 increase and changing my eating habits (reducing fat intake), I've lost 6 pounds in the last few weeks. I am really excited about that! Another 20 pounds and I'll feel better about how I look and feel.
With the holidays approaching, I'm a little worried but as long as I stick to not ingesting huge amounts of bad fats, I should be fine. My gallbladder is making a pretty good fat/weight policeman at the moment.
My weight has been slowly increasing over the past six months. A tenth here, half a pound there, pound here. Well, out of the 18 pounds I lost, nine of them are back!
My husband says I should manage my thyroid disease myself because that was when I felt better and lost weight - without a doctor. If I don't start losing weight, I am going to weigh as much as my husband very soon and I definitely do not want that. I could review the best diet pills for women but I don't need an appetite suppressant. My appetite isn't the problem. It's my metabolism that just doesn't work anymore.
I'm not sure what to do about managing it - with a doctor or without a doctor?
I feel like I'm stagnant. Stagnating in the wrong spot - at my weight, at my health. I don't feel like I'm improving anymore! I am SO frustrated with my thyroid! Why is it so hard to manage? Is this little organ that difficult to understand? Seriously?
I have to admit that my weight gets me the most. I just don't like feeling large. Yeah, I was one of those skinny witches all my life who used to be able to eat whatever she wanted and never gain an ounce and darnit, I want to at least be a normal weight. I don't even have to be one of those skinny witches again! I'll take just healthy!
I never thought it'd take this long to manage my thyroid. I've had thyroid disease for nine years now and it's still not managed right. So depressing. I don't think that weight loss pills that work fast will make any difference for me as long as my thyroid is not managed correctly.
I am so disgusted everytime I look in the mirror.
Things are just not going well with my thyroid right now. I am beginning to think that while this doctor knows where my levels should be, he doesn't really know how to get me there. I am gaining weight again! After losing a chunk of it, it is frustrating beyond belief to see it come back.
I don't even want to plan a Branson vacation or to any other destination because I hate the way that I look. I want to feel good about myself again. This really stinks. I am so tired of nobody knowing how to manage thyroid disease. Seriously, it doesn't seem like it should be that difficult. I know what I need...why don't the doctors?
My next thyroid doctor appointment is August 6, 2010. I wish it were sooner. A few pounds of weight have come back and it is really bothering me. Late periods are also a concern - my menstrual cycles are going whacky again.
I haven't actively dieted because I feel it is my thyroid, though I'm thinking perhaps a weight loss drink for one meal might not be a bad idea until the doctor gets my thyroid disease under control. I really hate that this weight is coming back!
I've lost 20 pounds so far and have 11.3 to go until I reach my initial main goal. I may decide to go an additional ten pounds after that but I'm not sure yet. At 5'7" I don't want to be twiggy.
Read more...I am mad right now. I have been waiting for a phone call back from him since Wednesday (it's now Monday)! I left two messages telling how awful I feel with my morning temperatures (which he wanted after I called him about my first crash a couple weeks ago). I crashed big-time about two weeks ago and then I seemed to start to stabilize late last week and then the last couple days - CRASH! I'm falling asleep in the middle of the day, exhausted at bedtime, my temperature is below normal everyday and not stable at all, my hair is falling out again and I have a really HUGE case of CRS.
...and the weight loss I was doing so well with? GRRR!!!! I've gained four pounds for no reason!
I am hoping this has been a fluke and he isn't flaking out on me.
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