Safe Diet aids for hypothyroidim?

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Ive been hypothyroid for 10 years now, over the time being I have gained 50

pound and cannot get it off, at one time my former doctor had put me on 112 mcg

of Levothyroxine and I actually dropped 30 pounds. However when my new doctor

suspected a thyroid nodule he decreased it it 88 mcg. I told him I was still

tired/sluggish so he put me on 100 mcg. That was a year and a half ago, still

nothing. I was wondering if anyone knows of a safe additional supplement that is

effective in helping to reduce weight?

[Guest guest]

On 2/20/2011 8:02 AM, CelesteK wrote:

> Ive been hypothyroid for 10 years now, over the time being I have gained

> 50 pound and cannot get it off, at one time my former doctor had put me

> on 112 mcg of Levothyroxine and I actually dropped 30 pounds. However

> when my new doctor suspected a thyroid nodule he decreased it it 88 mcg.

> I told him I was still tired/sluggish so he put me on 100 mcg. That was

> a year and a half ago, still nothing. I was wondering if anyone knows of

> a safe additional supplement that is effective in helping to reduce weight?

Sorry, when you find one, please let us all know. Until then, the best

we know to do is to fine tune your dosage and avoid high glycemic foods.

For T4 medications, this usually means the TSH needs to be below 2. For

dessicated thyroid or T3 type medications, it will need to be even lower.

Some people claim success for low carb/Atkins style diets. I have tried

that but found it stopped working after about 40 pounds and six months.

I tried this twice over several years. When it plateaued the second

time, I tried reducing calories. I was eating under 1100 calories per

day and still not losing for about a month. I was pretty miserable

during that time.

Chuck

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The body will generally plateau on just about any diet if you're on it long

enough. The trick is to keep your carbs low enough that your body loses, and

increase just enough to keep yourself from gaining or losing once you reach your

goal. If you stop losing back off a few carbs per day and you'll start losing

again. A gram counter is essential.

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> Ive been hypothyroid for 10 years now, over the time being I have gained

> 50 pound and cannot get it off, at one time my former doctor had put me

> on 112 mcg of Levothyroxine and I actually dropped 30 pounds. However

> when my new doctor suspected a thyroid nodule he decreased it it 88 mcg.

> I told him I was still tired/sluggish so he put me on 100 mcg. That was

> a year and a half ago, still nothing. I was wondering if anyone knows of

> a safe additional supplement that is effective in helping to reduce weight?

Sorry, when you find one, please let us all know. Until then, the best

we know to do is to fine tune your dosage and avoid high glycemic foods.

For T4 medications, this usually means the TSH needs to be below 2. For

dessicated thyroid or T3 type medications, it will need to be even lower.

Some people claim success for low carb/Atkins style diets. I have tried

that but found it stopped working after about 40 pounds and six months.

I tried this twice over several years. When it plateaued the second

time, I tried reducing calories. I was eating under 1100 calories per

day and still not losing for about a month. I was pretty miserable

during that time.

Chuck

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