First off thanks guys for showing the support it is much appreciated.
To Sidonia-
Thank you for that faith of purchase, I hope that it helps you in your journey. I think you will really enjoy the Metabolic Repair Book so you can learn a little more about how some things affect you.
I want to add some personal thought to your situation and being I am out of "product" to sell now to you I hope you will see that this all comes from a place of "nothing to gain" and noble intentions. I also hope it serves as some information for those in your position in the future.
It has been a long day and the thoughts can get jumbled so please allow me to hit at this bullet style.
1. Thyroid medication and problems don't have as much of a effect on fat loss as some might think.
If medicated you can actually have a faster rate of lose than those non-medicated because even the best of diets see decrease in thyroid function and slowly of overall caloric burn. So the FIRST thing to wrap your head around, what people in general need to wrap their head around is slow Thyroid problem doesn't equal overweight especially if medicated properly. Using the medication alone and expecting it to do something is not different than popping hoodia or cortislim without changing your diet.
2. Diet doesn't seem to be your focus and there lies the problem.
Of all the information you listed, what you are eating (exactly) wasn't one of them which shows me that in general, on average, you aren't correctly tallying your intake. Even if you caloric burn it slowed, you still have to be in a deficit to lose and you have to stay there. How are you measuring your intake? A short diet here or there doesn't matter if the over all has been a excess of calories. If you caloric burn is lower, say you burn 2000 instead of 2500, well if you eat 2500 calories a day that is a gain of a pound a week, just like that it is that simple.
Don't over complicate this process. Keep track and accountable and the rest falls into place. If you have no idea what you burn the best way to find out is to just decrease until weight does. If that point turns out to be viciously low (less than a 1000 calories) then that opens up for a different problem. You have to though be patient enough to find out. Usually the first week is pretty eye opening.
3. Don't aggressively train
You have a sensitive system that will not respond well to putting aggressive strain on joints that is already there. You will have plenty of muscle mass underneath simply from just carrying bodyweight. That doesn't mean don't ever strength train, it just means now is really the time for walking, watching the diet, resting, and taking care of yourself. Wait for the hard stuff until you really need it/want to sculpt that body up.
So what are the 3 main points here?
1-Your illness does NOT define you or your loss. It is very much in your control to fix this or at least guide and help it to your goal.
2-Diet, Diet, Diet. Eat more than you need and nothing will happen, eat less and stuff will more.
3-Especially when you have a sensitive system do only what you have to and then save the rest for later.
I hope that helps. PLEASE keep us updated.
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