
Good for you, and thank You, Lord!
Finally, after MANY years (excluding a couple of months there when I first tried the third thyroid med I was put on--but then the weight came back), I have finally dropped about 7 lbs.! This is a true miracle, because as I've said before, for years I have worked out 'til I was blue in the face, tried pretty much every diet out there (including good old sensible eating), and only gained weight, thanks mostly to my thyroid. But I was never able to take much thyroid meds because of my tachycardia, which my doc wanted me to get under control with magnesium. But my, uh, digestive system hated magnesium, and let's just say I never absorbed any! Finally about a year or so ago I found a form that I could tolerate--the citrate form, which incidently is one of the most absorbable forms. So I've been taking four 1000 mg. caps of cal/mag a day, and after a long time I've been able to go from 1/2 a thyroid pill to 3/4. It really stunk that I was only able to to take 1/2 of one, since the original scrip was for a whole one--and that was the weakest dosage they make! So it probably wasn't doing me much good.
Plus I've been alternating between taking cinnamon and cinnamon extract before meals for blood sugar control (I'm not diabetic but suspect perhaps Metabolic Syndrome), and my doc found that my estrogen dosage was too high, which will make you gain or at least not lose; so she lowered that--and I've dropped a whole size! PRAISE GOD!!!
I'm not on a "diet" per se; I just try to follow a basic "Mediterranean" way of eating....meaning whole grains, fruits and veggies (admittedly, not enough of these!), lean meat, nuts, olive oil, a little red wine, etc. I don't eat a lot of fish which is o.k. because of the mercury and the fact that I do take a lot of good-quality fish oil with no mercury. I also use organic, virgin coconut oil, which has gotten a bad rap but is actually quite healthy if you get the good stuff.
This does not mean I don't eat "bad" things like cookies, french fries, or a nice fatty ribeye or fried chicken (yep, skin and all!)--I do--just not very often and when I do, small portions. In fact, small portions of anything even remotely fattening, which is not hard because I usually eat like a bird anyway (although you'd never know it to look at me!

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