Hashimoto diet,help!

[Marybmazzuco]

Ok, well I'm a healthy 63 year old female and I've been diagnosed with Hashimotos disease. Thankfully, not the worse thing in the world. Now, to work with it. I've addressed the hormone issues and am working on a proper diet. Main obstacles: NO Gluten, NO SOY! Of course they are both in everything. I want to lose 30 lbs have started walking for that. My eating plan must be 1200 calorie minimum.

Any suggestions?

[Zest]

Hi Marybmazzuco ,

Welcome to the Healthy eating forum. This article, from Healthline, looks quite informative regarding potential dietary recommendations, so might be worth a look:

healthline.com/health/hashi...

I would like to wish you success with your plan to lose 30 pounds, and brilliant to hear you're enjoying walking as an exercise.

The NHS weight loss forum is also very supportive - specifically for the weight-loss side of things, so that might be a good forum to join alongside the Healthy eating forum.

Hope you have a great week.

Zest

[Penel]

Hi Mary

As someone who has had to eat gluten free for several years, my main recommendation would be to keep ready-made gluten free food to a minimum. It's often full of sugar and various additives which are best avoided.

There have been several very tasty gluten free recipes posted on this site, worth having a look for in the healthy recipe section.

Good luck with the diet. Perhaps have a look at Michael Mosley's latest book, or website, "The Clever Guts Diet", lots of good recipes to help improve your gut health.

[BadHare]

Have you joined the Thyroid UK forum? Lots of excellent information available, & there's links to different diet benefits on the US thyroid websites: VeryWell, Hypothyroid Mom, & Stop the Thyroid Madness. I'm interested in functional medicine & follow Chris Kresser with this regard. This article has links to a lot of other thyroid & autoimmune disease, & there's a free detailed e-book avaiable should you want to sign up for updates: chriskresser.com/why-changi...

Very few foods contain gluten & soy, so they're easy to avoid. If you make everything from scratch you can tell exactly what you're eating. Fermented soy is fine, I still eat this regularly. Zest has lots of links re healthy eating & weight loss. Hidden has posted some amazing GF recipes. I like the Food Monster website which has a lot of recipes that are labelled as GF or soy free if you're unsure about what's ok to eat.

If you're taking only levothyroxine, you might want to try a good probiotic like kefir so you can better convert it to T3. Good gut health is important to everyone, even more so for anyone with hormonal issues.

I dont have Hashimoto's though found I lost weight whilst increasing my calorie intake, once I started taking thyroid hormones. I'd eaten a lot of soy for 10 years, which made me more hypo than I'd been previously.

[andyswarbs]

Although it is not directly related, every time I go to my yoga that talk about various poses massaging the thyroid.