I need a diet! HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phoebe2]

OK, I am hypothyroid, pretty sure pcos as I have severe pms and ovary pain 24/7, I have fibro, chronic fatigue , interstitial cystitis, and a inflamatory bowel disease. I am 28, female, no kids, and miserable and on disability. I have consulted many doctors on weight nad I get the blank stare every time.

While I will admit i love choclate nad do eat when I am angry. I shoulnd't be this weight. Anything I eat I go into spasms and most always it eliminates itself to the bathroom within 10 minutes of eating it (ibs). I have tried every diet some for 6 weeks some for a few years (I AM a very determined girl and am NOT lazy). On every diet I lsoe 7 pounds the first week (this is my water weight and means nothing).. I have subsequentially lost NOTHING else.

-Atkins STRICT ZERO carbs for a few months 0 weight lost
-low carb gained weight
-slimfast/low cal 1200 cals I did lsot 3 pounds in a month and did this for a few years (I was at the time almost 300 pounds so that is competley ridiculous and with working out)
-900 cals.. i can maintain at this I THINK maybe though i gained 2 pounds this week on it.
-hard working out (which for me is an hour and with fibro i literally sometimes dont have the strength to lift my glass of water so this was before my muscles went to complete mush) I would gain 3 pounds a week NOT muscle at 300 pounds!


I am beyond frustrated, humilated, and sad. I really need some GOOD advice. I try buying brown things I try only meat things. I am just so depressed cuz it is NOT from my lack of trying.

Right now I am only on prevacid and quercetin. (we are hoping prevacid will make my guts stop spasming and keep my food inside longer than a few minutes.. of course there are weeks when i wont go to the bathroom at all sigh and that bloats me upw here it hurts to walk.

I am a complete mess. But I figure if you are gonna be sick.. you should at least look cute to gain the sympathy you need and give your husband a reason to stare at you laying in bed everyday. OK i know that sounds stupid.. but why can't I at least be a normal weigh. i dont want to be 99 just NORMAL.. right now I would even settle for under 200. I am already so sad not being able to go for walks or go tot he store why do I ahve to be fat too.. and no dont ask me to g to the gym cuz i cant even a wheelchair cant help cuz it just hurts and i am so sick from all this disease. it has to be through diet

IF ANYONE HAS ANY ISEAS FOR A DIET FOR ME THAT WILL ACTUALLY WORK>> I BEG OF YOU PLEASE MSG ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!







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my journal for the day:
i wouldnt been even steven but last night I gained 2 pounds .. ive been only eating prob 1000 cals a day all week so im a little pissed at my body. I can't even handle food anymore. I started taking prevacid but its not helping though my bladder feels kinda good on it so I think Ill get him to prescribe it as I am just on samples right now.
Just makes me so damned mad. I cant eat anything like a meal without being in intense brain numbing spasms followed by bathroom time. NOTHING stays in my body.. how the HECK is it staying fat??? I had a 10 piece chicken nugget thing and it was too much for my body and it immediately left in a most painful way (yes we had mcdonalds cuz sunday is my boy's day off dieting for him which he lost 4 pounds this week).

I have asked every doctor about the weight thing but they ignore me. Most I got was a nurse telling me eat an egg when you're hungry. I know people lsoe ont he Atkins but its just calorie restriction also. I don't have issues with pigging out (ok sometimes I do like some lady pissed me off and I had cheesecake but not much else that day so even then I was eating less than a normal dieter). My boy is on the atkins but I swear he only eats 200 calories a day. And with the way a meal immediately leaves my body I am probably getting zero nutrition and even fewer calories per day.

Its like a viscious circle. I get so sick I can't eat for a few weeks at ALL and force down a saltine or something. First week I lose 7 pounds ( I ALWAYS lose 7 pounds first week of any diet so I know I have 7 pounds of water with me always).. then week two nothing.. week three i can finally eat or I am so damned hungry i try to get in more like 800 cals a day and BAM I gain. I know eat more. that doesn't really work either. There is soemthing very very wrong with my metabolism that or I have a 100 pound tumor in my tummy (I saw that on maury where they thought this little girl was fat and she ended up having a 70 pound tumor in her gut).

I know hypothyroidism and PCOS people have the worst times losing weight and I do think I ahve both nad both say eat more protien and i even stopped being a vegetarian for 12 years to eat protien but it aint helping.

I am frustrated. I still have this big event coming up at the end of summer but no way in heck am I going at this weight and theres no game plan except complete starvation.. which i also cant do because of this stomach thing i have and i have to have a tiny bite every few minutes otherwise I get super unbelievably nauseas. I really havent a clue as to what game plan I should be working on and I know i should just let it go and get fat as long as I stay healthy but thats so depressing

over and out
-me

[CONILUV]

Hang in there!

There are many of us here on this website that understand your agony. Underactive thyroid is the biggest thwart to losing weight.

In high school I had the figure of Marilyn Monroe....curvy, but thin. I put on some weight when I was 16, went on a diet and I weighed 110. I have dieted off and on ALL of my life. Between 40 and 54 my weight ballooned. In the past 4 years I have completely lost my waist and look like an apple. I wish I had never given in to elastic, because it looking back, when the elastic came, the waist went. I finished my master's degree and began teaching at the age of 50....in the next year, my daddy died, my father-in-law died, several of my friends died, and my beautiful 29 year old daughter attempted suicide. This and the stress of first year teaching pushed me to the edge. I had to give up my teaching at the end of one and a half years as the stress gave me heart problems....I lost 15 lbs in 6 weeks....After I left teaching, I didn't weigh often and the weight crept back and then some. I went from a comfortable 12 to busting out of a 14. I am only 5'3".

Eating less, exercising more....nothing helped. I did lose 7 pounds the first week I did Atkins, in February, but have only lost 3 lbs in 2 months, after the first week....and anything out of the ordinary shoots that weight back up. I DREAD going to the doctor because I know he is going to harp on my obesity. I went home and cried the first time I was referred to as obese.

You said you are taking Prevacid. Are you NOT on medication for your underactive thyroid? There is TONS of information about thyroid medication and good discussions of which medicines work the best for weight loss. Don't give up. I think the right medication would really help. Different eating plans help different people. With me, although I am losing weight at a very slow rate, I FEEL so much better eating low carb. I don't have the cravings and have more energy on it. My saving grace is Bryer's new low carb ice cream. (they even have Rocky Road) Only 4 net carbs per 1/2 cup.

Do you have a good relationship with your doctor? Do you go to a specialist about your thyroid disease?

When I first found this web site, I read a post from Margie, in the thyroid disease section. She had written an article that was published in WOMAN'S World. I think if you cut and paste what you wrote here and you could email it to her at:

thyroid~justice.com

She could give you some good guidance and direction. Another good website is about.com and then type in thyroid disease. I hope this has helped some. There are many of us struggling with our weight and the diseases that go along with it. I hope you start feeling better soon and that your spirits are lifted.

Always remember, LITTLE STEPS TO BIG GOALS!



Keep a journal and don't give up. Keep me posted on how you are!

Connie in North Carolina

[leborland]

I hope this is helpful. My husband and I started Atkins together. He eats way more than I do and exercises less, but he was losing weight and I was getting nowhere. Maca root has really made the difference for me. I've now lost about 25 lbs. I add a teaspoon of Maca Root to my shake in the morning, eat a salad for lunch, and a low carb dinner. When I want something sweet, I eat an Atkins bar or a low carb desert. It's a really painless diet, and I'm losing slowly but surely. I also try to include a little coconut oil in my diet, but I can't ingest the recommended amounts. It's too much for me. Before low carb I had tried low fat, low calorie diets and never lost a pound. I was really frustrated with Atkins too because I only lost a few pounds during induction and then went into an immediate stall. Then I started reading about the hypothyroid factor and self diagnosed. It was easy, I had all the symptoms. I started experimenting with Maca root to see what happened (see the Maca Root thread) and I'm delighted with the results. Don't expect it to happen right away. You have to stay with it for a couple of months to get results. You may find that it helps with some of your other problems too. Maca root seems to work on the whole endocrine system. There are a lot of good websites in the thread to check out for more information. Good luck