Starting Over

Amy, there are a lot of people who plateau following your plan -- who do not have thyroid problems -- because they've gone into starvation mode. I know its not that simple in your case, but who knows, its worth exploring. Anyone who would work out at your level and eat your calorie levels for that long would be stalled IMHO.

Is the Univ. of Arkansas anywhere near you? I was looking up the RMR test in your area and this came up:

"Fitness Assessments
The Get Healthy fitness assessment will include measuring the following:

* body mass index
* waist / hip ratio
* body circumference
* resting heart rate and blood pressure
* percentage body fat
* V02max (your total capacity to consume oxygen)
* resting metabolic rate (how many calories your body burns at rest)
* flexibility.

With your assessment you will receive a detailed explanation of the purpose for testing each area, the procedure used for the test, and recommended values for comparison.

$35 / non-UAMS employees

Please call 526-2222 for an appointment"


I know your problem probably relates to your thyroid, but that might not be the only answer. Its worth finding out your RMR and it may be worth lowering the intensity of your diet and/or exercise for a little while *just to see what happens*. If you gain a pound or two, then you can stop. But you never know, you may need to work on increasing your metabolism in other ways even at the same time that you're trying to fix your thyroid.

Of course I'm no doctor...but it cant hurt to look at other areas at the same time that you continue trying to treat your thyroid (I would NOT wait a year; I'd find another doctor).
 
Blancita said:
Amy, there are a lot of people who plateau following your plan -- who do not have thyroid problems -- because they've gone into starvation mode. I know its not that simple in your case, but who knows, its worth exploring. Anyone who would work out at your level and eat your calorie levels for that long would be stalled IMHO.

Is the Univ. of Arkansas anywhere near you? I was looking up the RMR test in your area and this came up:

"Fitness Assessments
The Get Healthy fitness assessment will include measuring the following:

* body mass index
* waist / hip ratio
* body circumference
* resting heart rate and blood pressure
* percentage body fat
* V02max (your total capacity to consume oxygen)
* resting metabolic rate (how many calories your body burns at rest)
* flexibility.

With your assessment you will receive a detailed explanation of the purpose for testing each area, the procedure used for the test, and recommended values for comparison.

$35 / non-UAMS employees

Please call 526-2222 for an appointment"


I know your problem probably relates to your thyroid, but that might not be the only answer. Its worth finding out your RMR and it may be worth lowering the intensity of your diet and/or exercise for a little while *just to see what happens*. If you gain a pound or two, then you can stop. But you never know, you may need to work on increasing your metabolism in other ways even at the same time that you're trying to fix your thyroid.

Of course I'm no doctor...but it cant hurt to look at other areas at the same time that you continue trying to treat your thyroid (I would NOT wait a year; I'd find another doctor).
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Thanks so much B. UAMS is five minutes from my job and is actually our biggest client at the moment. I am working on the project for their new medical campus right now. I will be calling today for an appointment. I am also going to a seminar about hypothyroidism there in a few weeks. I asked my dietician about changing my calorie intake and she said it could work but the fact that I haven't lost hardly anything during the past 10 months definitely is due to my thyroid. She said I may still need to cycle the calories after they get the thyroid straightened out. Also, I may need to try low carb to get the weight off while my thyroid levels are messed up. Apparently you can lose weight with hypothyroidism, it's just very hard and usually is by a low carb diet. So today I am starting a low carb lifestyle. This means lots of tuna, chicken, veggies, and eggs. Which is fine but I have to be careful with my blood sugar levels. I am prediabetic. Not because of a poor diet but by family history. Fruit makes my blood sugar skyrocket for some reason and I get sick if it gets too low. It's completely controlled by diet and I never have problems with it.

Anyways, enough rambling. Thanks so much for looking up that info for me.

Amy
 
Sounds like a good plan Amy! Cant wait to hear about your appointment at the Univ. What a coincidence that its right near your house.

What sort of calorie intake will you do on the low carb diet? Me not being an expert I would really encourage trying to get at least an additional 500 calories per week for a few weeks to see if you can jump start your metabolism. I know mine slowed down and then stopped losing after I had been doing lower calorie for several months (I was doing around 1800 per day on average).

I just discovered this milk that cuts 2/3 of the carbs. Its by Hood and its called both Carb Countdown and Calorie Countdown (I think they just changed the name to the latter). It only has 3 grams of carbs, rather than 12, per cup. They also make a really tasty chocolate milk made with Splenda with only 3 grams carbs and 90 cals for 1 cup. It really fills you up when your hungry.
 
Blancita said:
Sounds like a good plan Amy! Cant wait to hear about your appointment at the Univ. What a coincidence that its right near your house.

What sort of calorie intake will you do on the low carb diet? Me not being an expert I would really encourage trying to get at least an additional 500 calories per week for a few weeks to see if you can jump start your metabolism. I know mine slowed down and then stopped losing after I had been doing lower calorie for several months (I was doing around 1800 per day on average).

I just discovered this milk that cuts 2/3 of the carbs. Its by Hood and its called both Carb Countdown and Calorie Countdown (I think they just changed the name to the latter). It only has 3 grams of carbs, rather than 12, per cup. They also make a really tasty chocolate milk made with Splenda with only 3 grams carbs and 90 cals for 1 cup. It really fills you up when your hungry.
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My calories are actually higher on low carb. I will usually get 1800-2000.This is because of the protein I choose to eat. The increase in calories will probably come from nuts and red meat. I am plannig on 300 calories per meal with 6 meals a day. This should put my calories around 1800 or more.

That milk sounds delicious. I may go get some tonight!
 
Okay so last week really sucked for me but I am now over it. Screw my damn thyroid. I'm gonna get this f'ing weight off damnit.
The low carb is going okay today. I forgot to get breakfast so I grabbed a handful of trail mix to fill me up until my mid morning snack. Unfortunately it amounted to 50 carbs. I have had two eggs (boiled), tuna, a salad with green olives and oil and vinegar dressing, a cup of soup, and two sesame seed crackers with laughing cow cheese. These are my carbs for the day so far. I will probably be having grilled chicken with baked zucchini and bell peppers for dinner tonight. I've already had 1200 calories today. I may have to eats some peanuts or something to get to 1800 calories today.

Tonight is my running night. I am only gonna get 3 miles in so I have the energy to do weight training afterwards. These rest days in between are helping so much with my stamina. Blancita was right (she usually is) about my body needing the rest. And the weather here has only been in the 80's so it shoudn't be too hot.
 
3 miles last night, 1850 calories and 90 carbs. Today I'd like to get only 40-50 carbs and keep the calories around 1700-1800. I didn't get the weight training in last night so I'll do that tonight.

Last night's run was exhausting due to the lack of carbs but the weather felt great. Nice and cool and there was a breeze coming off the lake. Plus, I improved my running time and made that big hill my biotch. My uphill running is getting faster. At first it was basically a fast walk with heavy pumping of the arms. Now I can actually run up the damn thing.

I need to start logging my meals here also so I'll start that at the end of the day.
 
Thanks for the props girl! I'm so glad to see you so pumped again. Glad also that you're adding some calories, I really feel you've been pushing your body very hard and its unhappy about it. Did you make an appointment for the fitness assessment? I am dying to hear the results!!!

I would not have been able to do any exercise at all on my first low carb day, so great job!
 
Blancita said:
Thanks for the props girl! I'm so glad to see you so pumped again. Glad also that you're adding some calories, I really feel you've been pushing your body very hard and its unhappy about it. Did you make an appointment for the fitness assessment? I am dying to hear the results!!!

I would not have been able to do any exercise at all on my first low carb day, so great job!
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I have an appointment for next week. This week is just too crazy for me to fit it into my schedule. I am anxious for the results too.
 
1947 calories yesterday with 48 carbs. I am starting to get used to the low carb diet. It keeps me full alot longer too.

I didn't get the weight training in last night like I had planned. Believe it or not, I completely forgot. When I got home from work I immediatley began cooking dinner (low carb taco salad). I then had to feed the baby, giver her a bath (1 hour) fedd her again and then put her to bed. By that time it was 9pm and H wanted to watch a movie.

Bridge to Tarabithia has got to be one of the most depressing movies ever. I read the book as a child but did not remember it being so damn sad. Worse than "Where the Red Fern Grows". After the movie was over I looked at my husband and said "I need a drink". Lol! Talk about ruining a happy day. don't waste the money on the movie but I do recommend reading the book.
 
Good job, I'm really glad you're getting more calories and less exercise for a time. I think it will help re-set things a bit for you and I really hope I'm right. You've eaten so little for so long and worked so hard you deserve a break, if you call all that you did with the baby a break (a pleasure yes, but a break "no"). Can't wait to see what happens on weigh in day.
 
Dont forget that its NET carbs that are pertinent not total carbs. You probably know this already as you're quite up on all things, but this means you deduct the total day's fiber from the total carbs. So I had 110 total carbs but around 16 grams of fiber which I was able to deduct out of the total carbs. I never really knew this before last week.
 
Blancita said:
Dont forget that its NET carbs that are pertinent not total carbs. You probably know this already as you're quite up on all things, but this means you deduct the total day's fiber from the total carbs. So I had 110 total carbs but around 16 grams of fiber which I was able to deduct out of the total carbs. I never really knew this before last week.
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Yeah, I had 57 total carbs with 9 grams of fiber. Wait, I guess I only got 46 carbs instead of 48. Woot! I have found that boiling eggs the night before and stashing them in my small cooler halps during the day for a carb free snack that fills me up. I am having 130-160g of protein daily on this new eating plan so that is good. I am also drinking TONS of water. I can't seem to get enough of it since lowering my carbs. I drank 160oz yesterday. That's 20 glasses! Needless to say, I peed for 2 minutes straight this morning. Lol!!

Thanks for checking up on me B!
 
This is funny. My husband has always been "Mr. Track Star" and has always kicked my ass at running. He hasn't ran much since the pregnancy and the baby but he's the kind that can be a couch potato for a year then get up and run five mile with no problem. About 6 months ago he and I went running by my house where I run all the time. He smoked my ass. Well I finally got him to go with me again this past saturday. Guess who was waiting for HIM at the house at the end of the run? ME!! It was my turn to smoke his ass!
 
AmyRB said:
Yeah, I had 57 total carbs with 9 grams of fiber. Wait, I guess I only got 46 carbs instead of 48. Woot! I have found that boiling eggs the night before and stashing them in my small cooler halps during the day for a carb free snack that fills me up. I am having 130-160g of protein daily on this new eating plan so that is good. I am also drinking TONS of water. I can't seem to get enough of it since lowering my carbs. I drank 160oz yesterday. That's 20 glasses! Needless to say, I peed for 2 minutes straight this morning. Lol!!

Thanks for checking up on me B!
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You peed for two minutes straight? OMG!! That's hilarious!!!:rotflmao:
 
Just shows how far you've come -- or how H isnt bouncing back as quickly as in his younger days ha ha.

I should be drinking more water myself. I tend to have several cups of green and white tea during the day in these huge 16 oz cups so I'm constantly getting interrupted to go to the restroom. Gets annoying actually, yesterday I had to run out of a conference call for the ladies room.
 
Blancita said:
Just shows how far you've come -- or how H isnt bouncing back as quickly as in his younger days ha ha.

I should be drinking more water myself. I tend to have several cups of green and white tea during the day in these huge 16 oz cups so I'm constantly getting interrupted to go to the restroom. Gets annoying actually, yesterday I had to run out of a conference call for the ladies room.
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I know how you feel. I was squirming in my chair yesterday while meeting with one of the partners and I had just peed 20 minutes earlier. At least I knowI'm not retaining fluid. Hopefully I'll see a change in weight next week from this low carb diet.
 
I have completely slacked off this past week with my running and exercise. Planning this benefit party is takin gup so much time that I haven't had the time to go run for the past 6 days. I will be going tonight definitely. I'm not sure if the low carb thing is working but I weigh this friday so I'll know then. I have been keeping the carbs around 40-90 but I am going to try and stay around 20-50 this week. I've had 10 so far today and I've already eaten lunch. My water intake has sucked ass the past 4 days so I plan to focus on that a lot more this week.
 
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