Wed, May-19-04, 12:13
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Senior Member
Posts: 302
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 285/185/150
BF:
Progress: 74%
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Smoking artificially boosts your metabolism. When you quit your metabolism drops back to normal. I also found this out; many women have thyroid problems smoking masks and it's not until they quit smoking that this is discovered. That might explain weight gain too, until your body is more used to the slower metabolism of course, exercise could help counter some of that I think.
When I quit I was NOT gaining, I just wasn't losing... well that went on for a couple months and I started to lose heart and I started to eat high carb again. Then the weight started coming back on, along with the diagnosis of my thyroid being undermedicated. Double whammy there I guess. I'm back on induction and my thyroid meds have been tweaked (I retest again in a couple weeks, but each time it's gotten better!), so we'll see what happens from here
-I'd change my sig to reflect my correct status but I can't figure out HOW to! No option for that under edit profile :/
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