Starting Over

Wow, i am so sore and tired from last night's workout. An hour and 10 minutes of cardio, broken up in two sessions of 35 minutes, 40 minutes of full body weight training and 10 minutes of yoga/stretching. I burned almost 900 calories according to my HR monitor. Woot!! And my food for the day was only 1400 calories so I definitely have a deficit.

Sean flies all night so I plan to do an hour of TurboJam after Bella goes to bed then another 30-45 minutes of yoga or pilates to stretch out these sore muscles.

I have taken a liking to having breakfast for dinner. Last night I had an omelet with Egg Beaters (60 calories), mesquite turkey breast (40 calories), half a serving of shredded cheese (50 calories), mushrooms and bell peppers sauteed in Pam (30 calories) with a side of salsa (25 calories). A completely satisfying and filling dinner for only 205 calories and very little carbs. Wow, this is making me hungry. Lol!
 
Wow! You are kicking some ASS with the exercise woman! And eating so well, too, I don't know how you can eat so little when you exercise so much. I'd be a ravenous lunatic. :D

Your brinner (breakfast/dinner) sounds yummy. My gf got me into adding salsa to my scrambled eggs a few months ago. It's delicious and hardly adds any calories.
 
Well thanks for the recipe hunnie :). Please do keep them coming. I discovered salsa on eggs many years ago at IHOP of all places. Mexican type ingredients like beans, pico de gallo, guac (more high cal though) taste great with eggs. Dont your egg whites stick with Pam though?! I use 1/2 a teaspoon butter plus some Pam to cook mine (even using a nonstick pan). Eeeeeek.

Now your putting my measly hour long workouts to SHAME WOMAN!

How are you feeling these days on the thyroid meds? Now that I've read a bit more about all this, could you remind me again what the issue was with you (I think they missed something because they didn't test all 4 levels?). Did you ever check your temperature or your basal body temp? I wonder if it was low before you started the medication. How much have you lost since you started on the right medication? Its about damn time with all that hard work and little eating you do religiously :rolleyes:.

I'll email you guys about the trip. I didn't know what days you had in mind in May. I was going to go to my sister's in FL then but I could see if I could switch, I need to look into it depending on when. Are there some good places to stay or what's the deal? I know we're emailing about this but I dont check my email very often so I just thought of my questions now lol..
 
Wow! You are kicking some ASS with the exercise woman! And eating so well, too, I don't know how you can eat so little when you exercise so much. I'd be a ravenous lunatic.

Your brinner (breakfast/dinner) sounds yummy. My gf got me into adding salsa to my scrambled eggs a few months ago. It's delicious and hardly adds any calories.
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I am trying sooooo hard to get this weight to budge faster. I am so used to eating so little (a year and a half of it) that it no longer bothers me. Plus, I have always been a hyperactive person so energy is normal. Especially since I started the new thyroid med, the energy has quadrupled!

I love salsa on my eggs, I put it on my chicken too.

Well thanks for the recipe hunnie . Please do keep them coming. I discovered salsa on eggs many years ago at IHOP of all places. Mexican type ingredients like beans, pico de gallo, guac (more high cal though) taste great with eggs. Dont your egg whites stick with Pam though?! I use 1/2 a teaspoon butter plus some Pam to cook mine (even using a nonstick pan). Eeeeeek.
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I haven't had any problem with it sticking, but I use the Egg Beaters so they may be better than just plain egg whites.

How are you feeling these days on the thyroid meds? Now that I've read a bit more about all this, could you remind me again what the issue was with you (I think they missed something because they didn't test all 4 levels?). Did you ever check your temperature or your basal body temp? I wonder if it was low before you started the medication. How much have you lost since you started on the right medication? Its about damn time with all that hard work and little eating you do religiously .
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I am feeling really good with this new med. The synthroid actually made me feel worse, majorly lethargic, depressed, etc. These days I feel almost like the old me. I started the med 2/12 and have lost 9lbs which is about a pound a week. With what I'm doing with calories in vs calories out, I should be losing more. I go in on friday for bloodwork and they'll probably raise my dose a bit.

Synthroid is only the T4 hormone which stimulates the thyroid to produce. In almost all people the T4 is converted to T3 (which regulates the metabolism) which is then absorbed on a cellular level. You can have tons of T3 in your blood but it HAS to be absorbed to be effective. My issue is quite rare and apparently mostly prevalent in other women with my blood type, O-. I am producing enough T3 but I am also producing RT3 (Reverse T3) which blocks the T3 from being absorbed. The docs were testing the T3 and T4 and it showed I had plenty to regulate my metabolism. I researched and found out about RT3 and asked my doc on base to check my blood for it and lo and behold, there it was. Prior to the bloodwork I was checking my basal body temp every day and recording it. Each day my temp was around 96.2 which is really low. So basically my body is fighting itself. The new med is all natural and consists of T3 and T4. What this is doing is increasing the T3 in my blood to the point where there's not enough RT3 to block it all, so the remainder that gets past the RT3 is absorbed which in turn fuels my metabolism.

In many cases, the body eventually stops producing the RT3 but it takes awhile for the adjustment. This is something that I will have to monitor for the rest of my life. Boohiss! Also, most cases are only detected through basal body temperature because the docs won't even check for RT3 unless you force them or show them evidence that something is wrong that the tests aren't showing. I am thankful my doc believed me and checked for it. He is so unfamiliar with it that he now is studying the condition so he can help future patients. He's only 30 so he's pretty new to medicine and admitted that he is intrigued by my condition.

I hope you figure out what the issue is very soon. The past year and a half almost broke me mentally and emotionally. Going from 130lb personal trainer in peak condition to a difficult pregnancy then a year and a half of practically starving myself and working my ass off only to have zero results. It's been rough. There have been days that I dreaded getting out of bed to face the morning. I got through it though and when I finally get this bodyfat off, I will have a smokin' ripped body!!! Lol!
 
Another kick ass workout last night!! I started with 40 minutes of intense cardio (high resistance and high speed) on the elliptical, then 45 minutes of full body weight training, then another 20 minutes of cardio on the ArcTrainer (incline at highest and resistance at 50%) followed by 15 minutes of pilates/abs and stretches. While weight training I would do 25 jumping jacks in between every set to keep my HR up so I ended up burning 900 calories for the entire workout. BooYeah!!

The scale showed 167 this morning and was 165 on monday morning. TOM is coming in a few days and I'm already retaining water big time!! I can feel it! I always drink 120-168 ounces of water a day but I think I only managed around 105 yesterday so I think that may be it. I've also been having a lot more sodium in my diet this week so it's making my body just soak it all up! I'm gonna down TONS of water today and cut out the sodium to try to get this weight off by tomorrow morning's weigh in.
 
Thanks for the explanation. Amazing how you have to push the doctors to test for things that they should have tested from the damn outset! Now we have to become medical researchers for Gs sake. My basal body temperature averages around 96.5 prior to ovulation. I take it every morning as I use a little tiny computer to monitor when I'm fertile based on my cycle pattern and my temperature (the thermometer is attached to the little device). When I read something about BBT, I couldn't believe mine is lower than normal (normal is 97 or above for first thing in the morning, right?).
 
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Thanks for the explanation. Amazing how you have to push the doctors to test for things that they should have tested from the damn outset! Now we have to become medical researchers for Gs sake. My basal body temperature averages around 96.5 prior to ovulation. I take it every morning as I use a little tiny computer to monitor when I'm fertile based on my cycle pattern and my temperature (the thermometer is attached to the little device). When I read something about BBT, I couldn't believe mine is lower than normal (normal is 97 or above for first thing in the morning, right?).
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Anything below 97 is low. There were some days mine were 95.8 but it mostly stayed around 96.2, even throughout the day.

Just remember, your TSH and T4 can come in completely normal but you can still have a problem. The low body temp is indicative of a T3 problem if the other levels are within normal range. The problem with docs is that MOST patients get better with just T4 treatment (synthroid) therefor they waste precious time treating with just that rather than doing the extra work to test everything in the first place.
 
My temperature is usually between 96.4 and 96.5 around 6:30am. How do you check basal temp during the day since the whole point is you just woke up and are completely at rest, without even having opened your mouth to speak lest that bring up your temperature and since the basal body thermometers are different than normal ones. On the net sometimes they mention daytime temp and sometimes BBT when relating this to thyroid issues. So how were you testing your temp during the day? I tried a normal thermometer during the day and it came back with normal 98. something readings. So then I thought maybe I dont have a problem. I'm SO CONFUSED! But I just printed out your comments to bring with me so I make sure he does every test from the OUTSET! I dont have time to waste given that the summer is here and I need at least 1 lb a week to come off. Right now its sure not coming off, despite my deficits.
 
I bought the medical thermometer, which is mercy. I read somewhere that sever issues with T3 and RT3 can make your bodytemp low throughout the day so I would rest for about thirty minutes then place the thermometer under my arm for ten minutes and record the number. I hardly ever got up to normal temps unless I was moving a lot. But then again, by the time we caught the problem, it was pretty bad. The doc said it was amazing I hadn't gained TONS of weight.

Don't use a digital thermometer, they aren't accurate enough. Get a mercury one and place it under your arm for ten minutes before you get out of bed and record that number. This will give the doc NOTHING to argue about regarding the accuracy of your numbers.
 
The thermometer that's attached to my fertility/birth control device is definitely totally accurate, it has to be in order to note and record the tiny fluctuation in BBT as between prior to ovulation, and after ovulation, when the temperature goes up just a few decimal points until :reddevil: shows up ("basal body temp thermometers" are considered the most accurate and are known to be far more accurate than normal thermometers). So my morning 96.5 temp is totally accurate. However, I cannot make my birth control device take the temp more than once per day (and only between 3 hours before and after 7am) so I will order the one you recommended and take some daytime readings as well since its normal to have a much lower morning BBT than the temperature throughout the day (though usually I believe lower than 97 is problematic). I would think its OK to take my temp if I've been relaxing at my desk for 20 minutes just typing, whatdya think? I just want to go to the appointment armed with as much info as possible. Hopefully I do not have a problem, but if I do, I want it discovered ASAP.

Good for you for keeping your weight totally stable while having such a low metabolism. It is to your credit, considering you worked out and ate little. Had you been like a normal person and been half assed in your work outs and ate a normal amount of calories (over 1900), you probably would've blown up. Its just so frustrating to work your ass off only to maintain. Glad things are looking up!

Honestly, I think you'd be a tremendous help to future patients of these careless doctors if you would write them all a letter noting how they refused to test you for things that were the cause of your problem. They should know how bullheaded and incompetent they are, and perhaps that will open their eyes up for the poor women who cross their paths.
 
I hate to be such a pain in the ass, but what about sept for our getaway? Flights are still cheaper, but it gives us all more time to look fabulous--especially me as I still have so damn much weight to lose. :banghead:
 
August or September is great for me. I can't in May with this custody case still in limbo. We just need to pick an exact date soon so we can book it early.

Claud, I did contact the past docs to inform them of their mistakes either in a letter or by phone. They won't listen though until it slaps them in the face. Some people like to THINK they are so damn knowledgeable in a certain area that they REFUSE to listen to anything that contradicts what they believe to be true. I've seen some on here refusing to listen to a person's problem and automatically assume the the diet and exercise isn't up to par. In some cases this is true, but NOT ALL OF THEM.
 
September sounds perfect for me! Not that we need to be all slim when we meet up since we're all a bunch of chubettes and that's just fine!

Amy thanks for your help on this T issue. Hopefully its not the case but I thought the temperature, along side the weight issue and the dry skin and semi-lethargy, I dunno. I will make sure this doctor tests all four levels and gives me an explanation for my low temperature. What time were you charting your temperature as it is known to go a lot higher throughout the day than first thing in the morning.
 
Let's go with September 11-14, is that good for you?

Cita, I had a severe case so my temps ran low pretty much constantly unless I was running or working out. The first week on the new meds, I couldn't stop sweating! It made such a HUGE difference in my body temp.
 
Those dates sound good to me. Where are we aiming to go/stay?? How's the weather in ES that time of year?

What's your morning temperature now? Did it go up from the original meds or only when you started feeling better? I'm noticing my temperature is at 96.4 everyday. I dont have an accurate thermometer to check it during the day, but that's definitely lower than normal for the morning and I read its a sign of a slow metabolism. So frustrating..

My new diary is here

http://weight-loss.fitness.com/weight-loss-diary/21232-b-s-still-trying-lol.html
 
I'll let you know about the accommodations, Kim is looking into that.

ES is beautiful that time of year and the weather warm.
 
That sounds cool! Each year I take a vacation in September somewhere a bit warmer than the Northeast to extend my summer. My sister lived in Bermuda 10 years after I moved away from there so I was visiting her in Bermie almost every September for years. That was great!

I'm just getting really confused about this thyroid stuff. I know my temp is low and I have a few of the symptoms, weight gain/memory problems sometimes/dry brittle nails and hair/dryer than normal complexion (it used to be oily before I had the baby and now its quite dry). But I just looked at my old TSH test results that I just received in the mail and they're in the normal range. Yours was normal and then other tests revealed a problem? So now why is your temp back down below normal if the meds are working? Do some people just have a low body temp that's normal for them?
 
What EXACTLY were your TSH levels? Mine showed "normal many times only to find that normal is .49 - 5.0 and mine was coming in at .50 which my doc said should have been addressed long before it started dropping even lower. My test before I started this new med showed my TSH at .21, the previous doc should have noticed the downward trend from all the previous testing. If they are on the low/normal side, then you may have a sluggish thyroid. I've read that the low BBT is a major indicator of a low metabolism. Here, read this article, it's very informative:



The treatment this doc recommends is tried and true and I am proof of it. What's sad is that the endo I got into an argument with insisted that this med was "inferior" to synthroid and refused to prescribe it to any patient. This med saved my mental and physical health.

The thing is that I KNEW something wasn't right with my body and how I was feeling so I refused to give up in seeking an answer. If you truly feel like something isn't right, follow your intuition. If this doc won't listen, find one that will. I was about to put a want ad in the paper for a doc that would listen to me and try to actually help me when I found my current doc on base. This is how desperate I was. Good luck and you're in my thoughts.
 
Hi girl, you're being so helpful with this thyroid stuff. I know it seems like I'm constantly looking for excuses for my weight.. Are you on the Armour then? Here's a good article about why the T3 needs to be taken in 2 doses rather than 1 per day.



Anyway, I bought the glass thermometer yesterday afternoon..luckily they dont fill 'em with mercury anymore. I have a wood floor in my LR but right by the fireplace there is blue glass tile. Naturally I happened to be standing right near the small tile area when I dropped the thing and it broke into a million pieces. Things dont tend to break like that on the wood part, but oh well. So I went to the corner and got another one, luckily there's this no name pharmacy right there which has really good quality medical supplies of all kinds and the cheapest pharmeceuditcals around so I got a thermometer made in Germany ($8). I figured its GOTTA be accurate lol. So I took my temperature at 8:30pm after relaxing for a bit and it was at 96.2. I shook it down and took my temperature again, this time under my arm for 10 minutes and it came back with the same reading. My hair is so dry I can go days without washing it and it still looks marginally decent in a pony tail (you dont see any grease, let's put it that way). I'll take my temp again 3 times for the next few days as recommended and see what happens. Surely a temperature running a full 2 degrees below normal cannot be good.
 
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