Today?1
I am in a position to do 'weigh in' days at last!
This will be a long post, sorry.
I haven't been on here for a couple of weeks, been busy, busy, busy with my veggie garden and falling into bed at night.
Some of you may remember me, great difficulty losing weight, tried everything and it's mother, but nothing stopped relentless creeping weight gain. I tried everything for many years, from Slimming world to Fast 800, Vegan to zero carb, straight forward Calorie Counting. Nothing worked.
I have been low thyroid for many years, during that time I have been able to lose weight sporadically, never really knew why I was managing to lose weight at those times and no idea why it stopped sporadically too. Why I suddenly gained on the same exact diet either.
2011/2012 I lost over 3 stone, I had been over 15st when I began to lose. I just began calorie counting and I started lisihg for some reason. My limit was 1,200 cals daily. I still have my diaries from that time as well as a graph which I used to have on the wall, it is about 5 feet long, I used A4 paper sideways and joined a new page on as I filled the previous page up. I used to record daily weights and calories on it. We are more used to them now on the Corona Virus Updates, but they are excellent for weight recording, believe me, you can clearly see the direction in which your weight is moving.
Unfortunately, in 2013 at size 12, I started gaining again. I was absolutely devasatated that my calorie counting no longer seemed to work. The only thing that happened was that I gained and gained, creeping along in a slow curve which inclined upwards relentlessly. I ditched my graph at these points.
I have been low thyroid for over 25 years. At 67 years, very much post menopausal. I take thyroid replacement thyroxine. I am tested for levels at least once a year.
The doses have increased often and reduced once, I now take 150 mcg daily. I thought that being diagnosed as low and going onto thyroxine seemed great at the time, but I just gained weight continuously never returned to the real person I used to be.
So I see the GP. Dr, I can't lose any weight again and it is simply going on upwards doc.
Sandra, your thyroid levels are perfectly normal. Calories in have to be less than calories out! Stop eating and watching tv all day and you can't fail, can't possibly fail to lose weight!
GGGGrrrrrr I have heard those words repeatedly in my dreams. Nothing has ever devastated me as much as being so large, believe me. And having no control over it, absolutely zero control over it was even worse. Add being told that you are idle, a couch potato and deserve all you have got back is appalling, believe you me, whennit isn't true.
I came home to North Wales from being in Stoke caring for my Mum on March 3rd this year. I had been up a pound down a pound for months. I had been 12st 5 lbs, in around July/August 2019. I had suddenly started gaining ever so slightly day by day after that date.
I could not change that, saw a GP, had my blood tested, perfectly normal. You just stuff yourself too much while being a couch potato Mrs Hilton!
So I am carrying on, as normal, and on 28th April, I noticed that my weight pattern had changed, I was not adding 1lb/losing 1lb daily. My weight seemed to be very stable, 13st 7lbs still but stable!
I began to take an interest, here are my daily weights since that day:-
28/4/20 13st 7lbs 0oz
29/4/20 13. 7. 4oz
30/4/20 not weighed, lost my nerve!
1/5/20 13.6.4oz
2/5/20 13.6.0oz
3/5/20 13.5.4oz
4/5/20 13.5.0oz
5/5/20 1st official weighin NHS??...............
13st 4lbs & 8oz!!!!
YES!! At last.
What made the difference? I went to look at my thtroxine tablets. Yes right dosage, but the makers name on the box was different, it was ACCORD!
I often had different makes of thyroxine, I had never thought to look at my thyroxine previously when I had been losing weight. I had never noticed the name Accord before.
I had often had one called Teva. A lot of people have problems with Teva, but I had never noticed any difference when taking them or any of the other makes that I have ever taken since diagnosis.
I never thought to question the changes in brand. I never thought, when I WAS actually losing weight, to check what brand of thyroxine I was taking. It never entered my head, I honestly thought that all along, I just thought that at last I WAS DOING SOMETHING RIGHT! I blamed everything but the brand of thyroxine.
Even when I started to gain again, every time I just assumed I was in the wrong. I was stuck in that mind set of calories in, calories out and the accusations of being bone idle and sitting on my backside all day everyday, throwing cream cakes down my throat!! I knew I wasn't but no one believed one word of what I said.
I went to Slimming World a few times, never lost an ounce, only ever gained and was told a few times that I must have been doing it all wrong, wrote out my diary wrong, didn't do any exercise at all, because if I had really eaten what I had put into my diary I would have definately lost weight, no doubt about that! You don't argue at times like that, you slink away and hide believe me.
I have done low carb, had an absolutely deep, deep purple almost black urine dip stick test, which means that your body is burning fat, absolutely no question, your body has turned to it's own fat to use as fuel. But I didn't lose an ounce on it. NEVER, EVER . What sort of a freak could I be, for God's sake?
I never asked a Dr about it, I hadn't had the nerve. Everyone thought I was mad.
Thyroid hormones affect every cell in your body, it controlls metabolism, yes. But everything else too, from depression to nail growth, hair growth, hair loss, eyebrows, greying hair, tooth decay, etc etc, I have no eyebrows at all! I could go on ad infinitum, but I will spare you that.
I know that this weight loss is not all fat. It is water mostly. A thing called Mucin, which low thyroid patients tend to have and it collects in body cells, under the skin, internally, etc. Basically it is water. You will think I unbelievably stupid, but I can feel the difference. I have been on these different little white pills now for almost 3 weeks and I can move easier, I don't have that bloated stomach in the way so much. I can interlock my fingers easily, with roomvto spare. I can fasten my belt on the next to the last hole, I have a way to go, about inches more, but I am going to get there.
However, I am bitter. I have lived like this for over 25 years and I am bitter. I am not the only one who has had this problem and it has nearly destroyed me and I am unbelievably bitter. I should not have had to go through this torment and GP's need to be trained better so that they don't just blame the thyroid patient. Many people arexself medicating, pay privately for their blood tests, the ones that the NHS will not allow a low thyroid patient to have done! Yes, I am very bitter, you bet I am.
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