Keto Diet Plan

[Onlymeandyou]

Hi dear fellow members, I really appreciate the advice on this forum and follow with interest, my health problems include having no thyroid ( due to cancer) fibromyalgia and being post menopause having had a full hysterectomy. Following the guidance here I have been gluten free for some time, but as I am approximately 2 stone overweight I have decided to try the Keto diet, I have done a week and lost 6lbs (a little disappointed as had hoped for more) does anyone see any problems with thyroid medication and this diet plan at all? Many thanks

[radd]

Onlymeandyou,

6lbs in a week is great!

It's not the thyroid medication you have to mindful of with keto but your adrenal state. If you are low in adrenal reserves you will the lack the metabolic flexibility to withstand keto and might suffer some hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

You need to have good working and adequate levels of thyroid hormones, fairly good blood glucose control and good insulin response. Keto should lower insulin levels and improve sensitivity but if you have any insulin resistance it will impair the switch from burning carbs to fats, make you feel awful and you won't lose weight.

We have another member who recently told of her 18 months in deep ketosis with obviously great blood glucose markers but unknown insulin resistance, and she made herself very ill.

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[HotelHurricaine in reply to radd]

I'm on Levothyroxine and followed a Low Carb High Fat diet combined with gluten free and lost almost 4 stone in 6 months. I would say that this way of eating improves insulin resistance and makes you able to be more metabolically flexible.

That said, Keto is a more extreme way of eating than LCHF as I understand it. I basically didn't eat any flour, rice, pasta, root veg, fruit (except berries) and legumes (no lentils, chickpeas etc) and I felt amazing. I have since slipped rather and am trying to get back on it!

@Onlymeandyou 6lbs in one week is amazing and should not be sneezed at! Keep going.

[HotelHurricaine in reply to HotelHurricaine]

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[HotelHurricaine in reply to HotelHurricaine]

PS I've just done the Zoe test and the foods I'm being told to eat are low carb high fat - my Hb1c is normal but I don't deal with sugar well.

[radd in reply to HotelHurricaine]

 HH,

Yes, I agree and eat roughly the same as you now with low carbs, high fat, all gluten free, and that with good thyroid hormones I've managed to maintain my weight.

[Jaydee1507 Administrator]

The thing with dieting is it changes your blood results. It pushes up FT4, reduces conversion to T3 and lowers TSH. Dieting is what brought me back to this group.

Are you on the right dose of thyroid hormone? Have you recently checked ferritin, folate, B12 & D3?

What are you supplementing with?

[Onlymeandyou]

many thanks for all your comments and information, I take all supplements recommended on this forum, I am currently under an endocrinologist who has recently prescribed T3 following the Dl02 test confirming I had the recessive gene, but this is being introduced slowly, my next blood test is due in April, before T3 I just could not lose weight, so I am delighted something is actually happening at last 😊