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>Most recently, I did Atkins.  I felt absolutely awful, and didn't lose any 
>weight.

1.  Some people need to go on Atkins for a couple weeks and then go off for 
a couple weeks in order to lose weight.

If you had no weight loss from the beginning, something is wrong.

Either you're eating too many carbs (and shouldn't even eat the daily salad 
he suggests even on the induction phase), or

You're on medication (e.g. antideressants, estrogen) that Atkins says cannot 
easily be overcome on his diet.

2.  High cortisol makes people fat.  You can see the belly fat commercials 
on TV, it also tends to put a buffalo hump between your shoulder blades, and 
give you a "moon face." (Not quite sure if that means round and fat or 
something else.)

Have you had your cortisol levels tested?  It's partly a timing issue, so if 
it was high enough where a doctor added a 24 hour urine test to make sure 
you didn't produce large amounts of cortisol all day long, even if he 
decided you didn't have Cushing's the timing of the cortisol production in 
short term but large amounts can also cause weight problems.

I didn't mention Prednisone, and if you saw Jerry Lewis all bloated in his 
later years it was because he was on that awful stuff.  Some people do have 
low adrenals and need  5 mg of hydrocortisone 4 times per day.  That's an 
amount normal to your body.

No one should ever be on Prednisone, except in life threatening cases, and 
then only if the doc isn't willing to give hydrocortisone, which he should 
try at low doses, not huge ones like they tend to give with Pred.  Pred and 
HC are not the same thing.  HC is a bio-identical hormone.  Pred is one 
altered so they can patent it.

Skipper









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>good choices, but I do struggle to regularly exercise.  Even when stickin=
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>to that, however, I have not lost any weight.  I refuse to accept that 
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>might be obese for my entire life, but it's starting to look very grim.  =
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>recently switched from Armour throid to compounded T3 and I am 
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>increasing my dosage.  I am hoping that it might be possible to shed some=
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>weight when I have reached my optimal level of meds.  I know that I am=20=
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>probably a metabolic mess, but I am open to any and all suggestions 
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>might help me win this battle with my weight.  I want to live long enough=
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>to see my grandchildren some day!  It's hard to image that's possible as =
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>morbidly obese woman.  What more can I do?
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