I started out the middle of the summer at 177. I am only 5feet tall so...that's not good. I had thought I was having a heart attack one night and went to the hospital around the end of May I think, but nothing. I swithced doctors about a month later and when she sent for my records, she called to tell me that my thyroid hormone was low, but not only that but my thyroid STIMULATING hormone was 3 times higher than it should be which meant that it was in overdrive and still wasn't getting me to a normal thyroid level. She put me on synthroid and I lost 11 pounds in about 6 weeks. She'd also given me an appetite suppressant but said she would only do so for a couple of months , just to get me started to help lose the weight my thyroid had caused me to gain. The rest would be on my own. I know that's cheating to a lot of people, but I really ended up not taking them anyway because I didn't want to waste them. By waste I mean that I wasn't really trying to lose weight or exercise becasue I was in school and stree and any other excuse. Anyway, I started trying to lose weight in earnest about 6 weeks ago and I think I was about 167-169. Now I am at 152. I really want to do it this time. I won't go into details but let's just say, I have the kind of motivation now that makes me feel like I HAVE ot do this now. For a lot of reasons but anyway...
I got an elliptical and Ihave been exercising on it 6 days a week for 30 mins. I'm doing a WW points plan-the original. I lost 65 pounds that way in 2002 and kept it off for almost two years, then we had a series of crises and I had gained all but the last 15 or so of it back until toward the end of last year. I guess that was when my thryoid started acting up.
Well, that's my story. This past week has been crazy cause I hadn't exercised but twice. And I "broke down " on my points 2 days. I am glad to have found this site, hopefully when Iam feeling weak, now I can come here for motivation. and support! I am excited about the prospect of not cringing when I cross paths with a morror.
I have a 7 YO daughter who has tld me before that I was fat. The other day, she said"Mommy, I can BARELY see you're fat now." That was pretty good. Coming from an absolutely honest mouth.
Pills aren't the best way, of course, but if you are being supervised by your doctor, it's a different matter. That's not exactly "cheating" in my book, anyway.