In a message dated 12/10/2003 12:04:19 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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> Has anyone with Hashimotos lost weight without being on a heavy
> meat protein diet? Can I hear some success stories? >>>
Thyriod antibodies ("Hashimoto's) run in my family. I don't know if I qualify
as a success story as I have only lost 10-15 pounds in the last 10 years. I
did good on an Atkins diet, but the boredom and terminal constipation made me
quit. However, if I ate like this before I got the thyroid treated, I have no
doubt that I would weigh about 300 pounds (136.4 Kg) now. I'm about 215 pounds
and eating anything that I want.
When I got on Sustained Release T3, I did good and didn't have to keep
increasing it the way I did with T4, Armour, and Thyrolar. I think that a lot of
folks with Hashimotos also have Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome.
Adult onset diabetes also runs in my family. My hypothesis is that a lot of
people with Wilson's Thyroid Syndrome (WTS) tend to have Insulin Resistance.
This means that one needs a higher level of insulin to push the same amount of
glucose into fat cells and muscle cells. When we are young, we tend to get low
blood dugar in response to eating refined carbs, we tend to gain weight
easier, and tend to become diabetics when our pancreas can no longer keep up with
the need for the extra insulin. Women with insulin resistance tend to have heavy
babies and may have glucose in their urine during pregnancies (gestational
diabetes)
This all makes sense only if you realize that like WTS, Insulin Resistance is
a major survival advantage during a famine. If you have not eaten in 4 weeks,
your blood surgar will not be as low as other people's, and when food is
available you will pack on the weigh really fast. Both these things are great for
famines and fatal in a society where too much food is the problem.
When too much insulin (due to insulin resistance) forces your glucose into
fat cells, you have 3 problems: Your blood sugar is low, so you must eat again;
you have gained weight; and you are more insulin resistant because your fat
celll are even more full.
Anything that can keep the insulin levels lower will make weight loss easier.
So, avoiding things that change into glucose (mainly carbohydrates) or using
medication that makes the cells more sensitive to available insulin will make
weight loss easier.
I am interested in any one else's experience with carbohydrates and thyroid
disease, and their weight problems witrh thyroid.
Doc Don
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