Hello, totally agree with this. I was diagnosed almost 5 years ago and I started to eat smaller servings 6 times a day this past week and I have already lost 2 pounds. I am working out on top of the eating though. My friend is a personal trainer and told me to think of it this way: when you are at work and you have a lot of things to do, you continuously work throughout the day to get things done. Your stomach works the same way. The more you feed it, the faster your metabolism will be because it knows that food will be coming within the next 2-3 hours and it has to metabolize what you just ate to make room. Eat your breakfast, lunch, and diner but also have 2-3 small healthy snacks in between. Another word of advice he gave me was to stop eating "bad fats" about 5 hours before your active part of the day is over so they have time to metabolize. For instance, if you get home at 6 and sit on the couch the rest of the day, don't eat any "bad fats" after 1pm. It's all about portions and what you are eating. When you do have the time to work out though, I highly recommend it. I use to be the same way in school, but I found that even the few times I was able to work out helped to at least get me motivated. It's going to be a hard battle, but we can all do it, we just have to kick ourselves in gear to accomplish it.
I also have hypothyroidism and learned that your diet depends on what causes your low thyroid function. Most people have hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroid disease that is called Hashimoto's thyroiditis. There is a problem with an immune system and not with the thyroid gland per se. Many foods that are recommended on most blogs are NOT suitable for people with autoimmune hypothyroidism. For example, iodine can make it worse, soy can further suppress your thyroid and foods that you are allergic to can trigger an autoimmune flair up and make you even more hypothyroid.
It would be very helpful to you to try to find out if you have Hashimoto's or your hypothyroidism is caused by something else. If you are looking for a reliable source of information about thyroid diet I found a free Hypothyroidism diet guide at
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that turned to be very helpful for me and I hope it can help you too to find what foods work best for you.
I also have Hypothyroidism, but because it went untreated for so many years I have developed "Hoshimoto's Disease" which means my Thyroid no longer works at all. I have been on Synthroid for 2 years. I have found that the diet that works for me is the diet that is recommended for "Graves Disease". If you google Graves Disease Diet you will find many articles. Basically, it is a diet of only fish, turkey, and chicken products as well as NO DAIRY AT ALL (all stores sell butter, cheese, milk, and cheese that are lactose free). Also you can eat all fruits but be careful of your intake. NO FAST FOOD AT ALL!!! (the stuff they put in Mcd's food, burger king, etc. is very bad for us with thyroid issues (salads are ok with italian dressing only)). NO FRIED FOODS WHATSOEVER!! Reason being is those of us with Hypothyroidism and, in my case, Hoshimoto's disease my body cannot break down the grease (aka cholesterol) in the foods. Veggies you can eat but try to buy organic but no broccoli, turnip greens, collards, kale, cabbage, or rudabega. There is something in those veggies that cause goiters. Baked foods or boiled only. No white flour, white sugar, white bread, or white pasta products at all. You can have splenda, wheat flour, whole wheat/whole grain breads, crackers,etc., brown rice, wheat pasta, etc. (you get the idea). Last but not least if your a seafood eater (like me), no seafood with dye in it such as shrimp, clams, crabs, lobster, oysters, or octopus and some fish has dye as well so you have to be careful, these can also cause goiters. It is really hard to do this diet and at first it was really hard for me and expensive, but I lost weight on this diet. Of course when I stopped the diet when I became unemployed I gained 2x the weight back now that I am working I am back on the diet because my last blood work came back extremely high in cholesterol, glucose, tsh levels, etc. My doctor said if I do not get back on track with my diet it will affect my heart and with 3 children, I want to live to see them have kids and their kids have kids. Hope this helps everyone.:-D
Before going gluten free you should check with your doctor..
I have been hypo thyroid for about 6 years. I refuse to take Thyroxine because it reduces bone density- osteoporosis kills more women than any thing else & I already have it.
See a good homeopath & get Thyroidinum - this gets the TS4 & TSH back into the margins. Your Doc can do blood tests to check levels every 3 months to make sure you are safe. This has worked well for me & my Doc now sees that Homeopathy really does work as proved by my blood tests.
if I eat healthy food (& generally a veggie diet,- avoid those killer animal fats !) and do moderate exercise , there is no weight gain.
Don't take prescribed medications unless you really need to- they tend to do more harm than good.
Drs diagnosed me too with hypo thyroid. A friend of mine in Hawaii introduced me to Real W8. And I lost some much needed inches around my stomach. Its an all natural supplement and It really works. I was on it this past summer. A bottle lasted me 2 months. Its been 7 months since Ive been off and I slowly gained 5 lbs over the past 2months. It just came from no where. I eat healthy for the most part.
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This is the 6 week body makeover diet. Be careful of plagiarism.
I have had Hypothyroid for about 3 years now and had some sever symptoms for it. I was so hormonally out of wack that i didn't not menstruate for about 2 years. I gained about 25 pounds and i have worked out all my life for 2 hours a day and i am a pretty active woman. I went from my normal weight of 125 to 150 maintaining the same lifestyle. recently i have been able to drop some weight and been able to keep myself at 132lbs. I eat small meals every 4 hours, ensure that all my meals are high in proteins. My dinner I stay away from any meat since my metabolism is so slow, it is hard to digest for me. There is no way of losing weight with out at least burning a sweat 30-40 mins a day. Stay away from foods that are considered goitrogenic: cabbage, broccoli, turnips, rutabaga, mustard greens, kale, spinach, Brussels sprouts, peaches, pears, strawberries, and radishes cauliflower, millet, and African cassava. Especially if uncooked. I like to have egg whites omelets for breakfast with whole wheat toast. smoothie 4 hours later usually blueberry, almond milk bananna and rasberry with a half a teaspoon of natural sugar. lunch - 4 hours later usually chicken, fish or beef depending with a side of salad or quinoa Dinner - kept light a soup or salad. hope it works for you.
a proper nutrition plan, with 3 small nutritious meals a day, 3 of which are fruits and vegetables. Please keep in mind portion sizes (that can easily be looked up, to be be in proportion to your body size). However, you are in school, so hitting the gym is alot easier now than it will be in the future. it also helps your concentration when you're studying. a warm up with 20-30 mins of cardio and light weight training will do wonders - trust me. I worked out all through my undergrad and grad school and even now in the working world. Don't let your thyroid get in the way, and don't let school be an excuse either.
has this worked for anyone? i've had both glands removed. one when i was 17 yrs old & the other when i was 42 yrs old. i never took meds for the one 1 that was left with but it basically over night & my endo diagnosed me as hyper w/ graves disease. got it "norrmal" had it removed and now i'm hypo & on synthroid .125 mg & I HATE IT, i feel like c**p, gains 15-20lbs... please let me know if this diet worked for anyone
I HAVE HYPOTHYRODISM...i have scrutinized every particular characteristic about my disease and i have ruled out that you do have to find your right dosage of medication in order to rectify the rest. In order to maintain stable, their are a number of foods that we shouldn't eat because of the interaction with our disease...one being our metabolic rate, we must eat very healthy every four hours in small increments to boost our metabolism and workout everyday to steady our stress level. this all has to balance us out daily. It may seem too much but in our situauion we have to go extra hard. we retain lots of water, so don't miss your medication and stay deticated to your diet and workout.
I read on another websites that brussell sprouts, peache,s pears, strawberries, gluten where not good choices for hypothyrodism.
I think what you are describing indicates that other hormones are out of balance...like estrogen being too high, or progesterone being too low. Ask your doctor, or GYN about getting those values checked to make sure they are in line.