Seasonal Weight Loss, 2

[digitS']

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I hadn't accomplished much by the end of June. Now, we are approaching the end of summer!!!

Down 7 pounds. How is everyone doing??

Steve

 

[897tgigvib]

Nothing helps a person lose weight like HYPERTHYROID!

I'd been approaching 200 pounds for a decade until last winter. Two years ago my doctors decided I definitely have thyroid storms. Thyroid 3, thyroid 4, and that enzyme number were all high, and that enzyme number was doing a spike at random times. The docs told me to stop worrying about my weight, that it will indeed drop. It took a year, and now I weigh like I did before 1985.

Shoot, someone could create the "HYPERTHYROID WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM", and make a bazillion bucks with it!

Docs don't seem to want to do anything about it yet. They treat women with it immediately, but with men they wait until something starts to go wrong from it. They don't seem to say why.

So now I add those weight gain and protein powders to my coffee just to keep my weight at 165, which just feels light to me, not as much oomph, ya know? I used to be great at helping someone push a car for example. Just lean into it. On the plus side, water skiing is much easier!

 

[catjac1975]

How do I catch that????

Nothing helps a person lose weight like HYPERTHYROID!

I'd been approaching 200 pounds for a decade until last winter. Two years ago my doctors decided I definitely have thyroid storms. Thyroid 3, thyroid 4, and that enzyme number were all high, and that enzyme number was doing a spike at random times. The docs told me to stop worrying about my weight, that it will indeed drop. It took a year, and now I weigh like I did before 1985.

Shoot, someone could create the "HYPERTHYROID WEIGHT LOSS PROGRAM", and make a bazillion bucks with it!

Docs don't seem to want to do anything about it yet. They treat women with it immediately, but with men they wait until something starts to go wrong from it. They don't seem to say why.

So now I add those weight gain and protein powders to my coffee just to keep my weight at 165, which just feels light to me, not as much oomph, ya know? I used to be great at helping someone push a car for example. Just lean into it. On the plus side, water skiing is much easier!

 

[thistlebloom]

I haven't stepped on the scale since early spring. My clothes are looser again, but this year it took all season to get there. I'm not trying to lose weight.
I should be more concerned about it I suppose, but I've dealt with it by just lowering my standards .

However! I do have a winter plan! As well as the elliptical for exercise, I'll be using a balance ball. I find that I look forward to indoor repetitive exercise when I listen to an audio book.
Of course that's in addition to all the snow shoveling, and snowshoeing we do! So hopefully I can keep "Goodyear" from being stenciled on my back this winter

 

[journey11]

I've still got about 10 lbs of baby weight to knock off (10 down, 10 to go). I've not been able to get outside as much as I'd like, but I've been trying to take my dog for a 30-45 min. walk each night.

 

[digitS']

Back for lunch!!

I am a little worried that I'm on track for a 10# weight loss this year. I did that two summers in a row once, losing 10# rather than my customary 15#. Keep in mind that when I did this, I still gained the 15# over the winter.

That is how I hit 200#, Marshall. Then, I gained 20# one winter - that was how I hit 205#. I'm a Yo-Yo on a string!! And, there's a kink in it!

Last winter, I did the MORE thing -- more fruit & veggies. I had 3 pieces of fruit every morning before I began my day of "light eating." You know, eating constantly while it is still daylight! Yeah, well. I may be eating more fruit & veggies now than then but that is how it should be. Whatever the case, it was probably why I didn't gain so much weight last winter (10#).

Well, enuf of this resting on my laurels. Time to get back to the garden & move some sprinklers. One thing that keeps me optimistic is that much of my weight loss occurs late in the season - right thru October. The only thing I think might be the reason for that is that the weather turns cold but I'm still outdoors a lot. There aren't the huge load of calories in fruits & veggies . . . or, I can't stuff myself with sufficient amounts of them to keep up with exercise during cool temperatures.

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Steve, I've combined your "light" diet with the seefood diet. I think only Marshall can get away with that one!

 

[897tgigvib]

Yea, there is that weight loss thing with hyperthyroid, but it does come at a cost, and for me, it does come with the extremely rare association of peripheral ulcerative keratitis on my eyes. It is all autoimmune related. My body thinks some of my own cells are foreigners, like the cells on the surface of my eyes, and some surface cells on my thyroid. For the thyroid gland, that means it thinks it needs to turn out the stuff, and that means my pituitary gland thinks it needs to kick out extra thyroid helper enzyme. The normal association is rheumatoid arthritis, but that's not happening. something about my calcium paths, lol!!!

But, the eye thing is controlled. The thyroid thing is not controlled.

Thyroid makes the cells metabolism work at the right rate. Different cells are more affected than others. Skin cells on hands and feet are affected, and, the sack the heart is in is affected, and the sockets interior cells where the eyes sit inside are affected. fat and muscle tissue is affected too, but slowly. I donb't mind my hands peeling sometimes. They aren't right now. Peeling skin on my palms is my indication a thyroid storm happened. Too much thyroid and enzyme helper, and the cells metabolism goes too fast.

What happens is that the cells go through their individfual lifecycles too fast with too much thyroid stuff.

If a related pharmaceutical could be discovered that works like thyroid stuff, but only targets fat cells, theoretically that'd be the ticket to weight loss. Thyroid storms do seem to target certain cells more than others.

My mother had it, and all my sisters have it, and my mother's younger sister has it. Each of us have it differently, and at different ages of onset. (I'm pretty sure it is because we are part neanderthal).

 

[journey11]

I'm surprised your doctor doesn't want to treat it, Marshall. My grandfather had trouble with hyperthyroid about a year ago and was completely miserable and in really bad shape with it. He was having extremely rapid heart beat in addition to the weight loss. Aside from not feeling well, he was also physically a nervous wreck. He was given radioactive iodine (given as a pill) to disable his thyroid and now takes a maintenence dose of levothyroxin. Basically they had to zap his thyroid so it would quit overreacting, then give him thyroid hormone pills to replace what the thyroid can now no longer make on its own.

 

[897tgigvib]

The things that happened to youre grandfather, the serious ones, are the things that they are supposedly waiting to happen to me before they do that radioactive iodine thing. So far my blood pressure and rate is like a 20 year old. They ordered a second full liver numbers blood test because the first set of tests they thought got mixed up with an 18 year old's. Nope, I have an 18 year oild's liver...now if i coiuld have an 18 year old body!!! Lol! or at least 18 year old teeth!

It's not just a doctor, but a whole tag team of doctors and specialists I get to see when I go to the big city, san francisco.

Wouldn't it be nice if they could just take me for a couple months and get a whole ovwerhaul? all at once.

I'd bet your grandfather also felt real hot in the summer. Thyroid heats you up.