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ok /fit/, i was working over 1 year, i finally got ride of all my overweight, cottage cheese and flabs, changed all my closet due to this and finally become a desirable chick with hot body and not just the "fattie with big tits" (started to wear fitted shirts and don't suck in my stomach was awesome). I lose 50 lbs of fat and gained 15 in muscle.

and out of the sudden, i started to gain weight again and get sick because of nothing. I stopped working because i didn't feel like doing anything but sleep because no matter how much i worked, i gained fat weight anyway... So i went to the medician and i got a diagnostic: my fucking thyroid is not working well and i'm developing hipothyroidism.
The medician sent me to take more blood tests (if those i already got weren't enough, 5 full tubes of blood people, and he wants MORE!) to get the diagnose confirmed and choose the right medication, but now i'm just like a balloon that doesn't stop to gain weight and don't have any motivation to work again (the doc said that this mentality is because of the same sickness)

what can i do? i stopped eating and i still gain weight!! Is there more people that haves the same dissease? will this "why should i work if i will regain weight again?" feeling dissapear when i finally get my medicines?

for the record, 120lbs, 5,4". Used to be 106 lbs...
>> Squimply
120 is fine, don't worry about it.
I'm sure it'll go away once you get the medication.
>> Anonymous
I will need to see pics of your tits before I can fully ascertain your situation.
>> Anonymous
>>337792
I hope this happens... I really feel like there's no hope in the world and that all the work, and every drop of sweat was in vain...
>> Anonymous
What does your thyroid have to do with weight gain?
>> Anonymous
oh man... i know im going to sound like a troll, but i feel you pain as one of my uncles got it, he became morbidly fat really fast and he fell into depression, my dad (a doctor) is now struggling to find plausible solutions to his case, because his life is now in danger.

I guess what im trying to say is, follow EVERY procedure your doctor tells you, the chances of getting rid of it are small, but the beauty of it is that you can control it and learn to live with it. From what i read, you have a HUGE advantage because youre at early stages, i guess all i could advice is keep your mind at peace, becuase these battles arent won with just meds and pills, theyre won with the will to fight, the same will you will start to lose if you lose faith.

Good luck and keep a strong mind.
>> Anonymous
5 vials of blood is average, pussy.
>> Anonymous
Work with your doctor to get your disease under control.

You need to eat, so don't starve yourself hoping that you'll stave off the weight gain. That will just tank your metabolism on top of having a screwed up thyroid.

In the meantime, try to motivate yourself to exercise. It certainly can't hurt. You might stop the weight gain, you might not, but you'll definitely benefit from keeping your muscles and heart in shape.
>> Anonymous
wtf is a medician?
>> well fuck your shit !SvVHiVQG4I
>>337777
>So i went to the medician and i got a diagnostic

I take it English isn't your native language?
>> Anonymous
>>338393
Thanks. In a way or another, that were the words i wanted to hear, so... thank you again. I think that this shit that's happening to me right now can be changed by following doc's instructions because it's just beginning... but on the inside i feel like it can't be helped and i'll be a goddamn balloon all my life (this dicotomy is killing me, i used to be a fatty and was very hard to get ride of all of that disgusting fat...). Take care of your uncle, i hope he will get well with the propper treatment

>>338386
because thyroid poduces certain hormones that are involucred in the methabolic process. You know, turning fat into energy or just accumulating it onto your body and feeling like you just want to sleep forever because you don't have enough energy to lift a finger :)

>>338456
Yes, sorry for my poor grammar, i'm working to improve it btw (i just have my school taught english and some self-learned words...) and i will join to an english institute next year.
>> Anonymous
>>337777
>gained 15 in muscle

I bet you did.
>> Anonymous
Not OP here

I had hypothyroidism myself. I was 5'2" 150 lbs. My doctor diagnosed me from my blood test revealed I had an underactive thyroid gland. I had all the symptoms: extreme fatigue, inability to lose weight, feeling cold no matter how hot it was outside. I was prescribed Levoxl which I took daily for over a year. It did very little to help me and the side effects weren't worth it so I stopped taking the pills.

I also stopped seeing my doctors because all they ever did was put me on a pills. And if those pills made me sick, they'd put me on another pill and another pill. Or better yet, they'd give me a generic version of the same pill, as if magically the side effects would somehow be different.

Doctors are nothing but drug dealers for the pharmaceutical companies, following the mantra "a pill for every ill" rather than even attempt proven prevention methods. A pill to fix you "broken" hormones, never mind your poor diet and sedentary lifestyle.

So I changed my lifestyle. My healthier diet gave me more energy so I started running every weekend.

Fast forward 6 years later. I go see the doctor again for a check up. They look into my medical records and see I have hypothyroidism and perform another blood test. The test came back NEGATIVE. They say, "well you must have never had hypothyroidism because you don't have it now and thyroid problems are genetic."

So one of two things must have happened. Either I never had hypothyroidism and my shit-for-brains doctors gave me pills for a disease I never even had making me sick in the process, or I did have hypothyroidism and was able to cure it, without pills, by eating a proper diet and living a healthier lifestyle. Either way, doctors are idiots. For the record, I am currently 5'2" 114 lbs and still dropping.

Sorry for the pretentious long preachy rant.
>> Anonymous
>>339592
OP here
wow, that's really freak... And i agree about doctors, there's a lot of them that really seems to don't have any ethic and just work to give us some pills and earn money with their deals with pharmaceutical enterprises. I know about that because i had an issue simmilar to yours with my inexistant "cronical" anemia. "You must take this pills every day of your life". I never take them and... it's a miracle! My supposedly "cronical" anemia is GONE. In my specific case, this thyroid issue is genetical. My granma has it, my grand aunts has it too. All of them needed surgery to remove it because they had nodules. Hopefully, i don't. Yet.

I wasn't a sedentary person, i used to do 30 mins cardio, 2 rounds of 30 squats, 100 crunches, and 2 rounds of 50 deadlifts per arm three times at week. I used to walk a lot because i have panic attacks too and i avoid the subway like the plague.
Now i barely can get out from my bed, 1- because i don't have energy enough and 2- because it's so freaking cool outside my bed (i live in south america and spring is about to start, but we still are in winter...)

Well, i will go to the doctopr in monday to get the new tests orders and take them, even when i hate needles and all...

ty /fit/, trolls aside, this thread helped me a lot (and thanks too for the grammar corrections, believe it or not, i don't get angry when i'm corrected, and i take them as "lessons" more than rants or trolling)
>> Anonymous
>>337777

You will propably get thinner faster than the first time. Your muscles respond faster to the exercise and start to grow and burn fat again. Just don't give up and you'll have a great body in no time. (with the medication)
>> Anonymous
>>337777

Thyroid problems run in my family. My mother has hypothyroidism. My sister has hypothyroidism. She was diagnosed about a year ago. She did put on some weight, and she felt tired constantly, but after taking the medication, her weight went down. She's still a little chubbier than before, but she has more energy. She's been trying to do some exercise, however, her heart rate and blood pressure soars through the roof if she overexerts herself. Also, there are bouts where her heart rate and blood pressure can spike for no reason at all. After some time, it's gotten better, and I hope you will be able to cope with it.
>> OriginalContentGuy@gmail.com
>>339592
Just because your doctors suck, does not mean all doctors suck.
>> Cancer Anonymous
That happened to me to and I had to remove my whole Thyroid, I take medication everyday now. You will b fine, i look sexy
>> Anonymous
>>340328

Not the same thing. Doctors are only supposed remove your thyroid gland if you have HYPERthyroidism, and only as a last resort. If you have HYPOthyroidism and you doctor removed your gland anyway, you need to sue his/her ass.

I did have a coworker who had hyperthyroidism. She was way too skinny and it made her weak because she wasn't absorbing enough nutrients from her food. Her doctors removed her gland completely and she swelled up like a balloon. Now she's 300+ lbs and she's only about 4'10" tall. She has to take pills for the rest of her life now. Hooray doctors!
>> Anonymous
>>340080
dude, don't listen to this guy
>>339592

you HAVE to have your hypothyroidism to be treated. It's not gonna go away, and you have to take your medications constantly!

If you have side effects, that only means that the DOSE was either to high (you heart starts beating faster, you feel tense, your eyes visualy become bigger - exophtalmia) or too low (you still feel like you are right now)

If you don't take the medicense, your weight will increase, you will feel cold all the time, you will be slow as hell - slow speach, movement, etc...

So trust me, you need those medications and you will have to take em for the rest of your life >.<

-medical student, 5th year reporting in >.<
>> Anonymous
>>340454
OP here. My mom haves hiperthyroidism, and is a freaking stick. she is 46 yrs old and STILL weights 100 lbs (5,3"), she eats like mad to not die. i.e. she skipped lunch, she lose 1 lb, inmediatly. She needs to be constanly eating and she had tryied a lot of methods to gain weight, i hated that fact since i was a child and mostly all of my food issues are based on that fact. But she haves it under control, no nodules at all yet and a pair of packs of fries daily makes her stay in her weight and not die. My grandmom had a tumor bigger than a can of coke on heirs (400 cc.) that grew up in a week, before that she also was a stick, now she weights like 300 lbs. My grand aunts haves hypothyroidism, and one in specific that i love so much is carring me to her doctor and trying to keep me "awake". It's one of the few persons on my family that really (bold, cursive, etc) understand what's happening to me and not ranting because i'm gaining weight, i don't have willpower, my lack of energy and my goddamn pale/almost dead skin (i used to be very white, but always my cheecks were pink)

>>340086
My rational side says that. The muscles have memory and yada yada... But is so sad to touch your gigantic (compared to before) belly and feel your before hard abs under that mantle of lard... it's very discouraging...
>> Anonymous
>>337777
>medician
facepalm.jpeg
Use:
>physician
OR
>doctor
>> Anonymous
>>338386
Somebody already kinda explained this, but your thyroid has an important task in producing hormones which control metabolism. Specificaly, it controls the 'speed' at which your body metabolizes stuff.

Hypothyroidism will cause a lack of said hormones and therefore a (very) slow metabolism, and therefore causes the body to consume less energy, resulting in more leftovers which will be deposited as fat. Apart from this it can cause stuff like depression, lesser tolerance to cold and stuff like that.

Hyperthyroidism will make you skinny.


(To add on this, it's not always the thyroid which is 'at fault', thyroid function is controled by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, if stimulating hormones from those organs are missing, a simular situation can occur even if the thyroid is perfectly fine.)
>> Anonymous
>>340489
dude if you take medicines + workout that fat WILL go away!

crutial point - dose, that is what the doctor is for...

-med
>> Anonymous
>>340510
yup that is called brain tumor

>>340500
not all people here are americans
>> Anonymous
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>>340089

Hypothyroidism runs in my family too. My grandma had it, my mom had it, I had it. The thing is, I suddenly DON'T have it anymore after I changed my diet. And my grandma and my mom who continued the same diet still have it. Funny how that works out.
They both also happen to read this shitty magazine.

So is it really genetic or is it because families eat the same foods? People eat the same foods that they learned to eat from their parents, so preventable diseases that can be cured or at least treated through proper diet appear to be the result of "bad genes."

"Bad genes." "Broken hormones." It promotes the falsely comforting sense that a persons cannot be blamed for their own obesity and it's beyond their control so why fight it. "It's not my fault I'm fat, It runs in my family." As if it has nothing to do with people and their families eating the exact same kinds of food.

Don't buy into the "broken hormone" bullshit. You can control your metabolism by eating the proper foods.
>> Anonymous
>>340631
Err, not if you've got hypothyroidism you can't. That shit is there pretty much specifically to control your metabolism speed. Hypothyroidism (if severe enough) will predispose you to 'getting fat'.

Now, wether you can prevent hypothyroidism by 'eating right' is beyond my knowledge, but I kinda doubt it. (Well unless you mean idodine deficiency, but can you seriously blame an unschooled person for not knowing this.)

Maybe you just meant to say that in general people whine to much about 'bad genetics', which I kinda agree with. But really, with hypothyroidism and some other (hormonal) disorders you almost can't help getting fat. Treatment should help that though, though I'm not aware if it can fully cover it.
>> Anonymous
>>340646
yup it can, right now the pharmasutical companies relese tyreoid hormod identical to the real one, so with the right dose you wont have any problems
>> Anonymous
>>340646

I DID have hypothyroidism. I changed my diet to a healthier one. I don't have hypothyroidism anymore. Take my word for it. It can be done.
>> Anonymous
>>340663
Well I doubt you actually CURED your hypothyroidism by eating 'healthier' foods.

As far as I know there is no actual cure for hypothyroidism. In dogs (I'm a vet student lol), hypothyroidism is treated by daily, lifelong hormone treatment. And I've never heard of any other treatment being available to humans.

So I'm guessing you had a mild case which could be 'evaded' by changing your eating patterns(, which means you still have hypothyroidism but are able to avoid the negative effects (making it kinda subclinical)). Not everyone can treat their hypohyroidism this way.
But as>>340658said it can be treated with hormones, though I believe it can still be a bitch to figure out the right dose.
>> Anonymous
>>340707
+1
i'm a medical student :)
>> Anonymous
>>340631

Ya gotta love Women's Day.

"Are your broken hormones making you fat?" right next to "Yummy! Extra-easy cream pies." Can't believe women actually buy this.
>> Anonymous
>>340707
hey, do you understand what food does? It goes in you, you absorb it, it builds shit. your cells, your bones, your enzymes, that's all made from food. If you eat crap food, you'll have crap medical conditions.

and i'm not reading the whole thread but just adding that iodine was introduced into all table salt help fight thyroid problems.
>> Anonymous
>>340719
I just love modern medicine.

NO WAY diet and exercise could have an effect on a body's hormones.

Don't worry, Its not your fault. You weren't taught any better.

InB4 hissy fit: Diet can't fix ALL hypothyroidism
>> Anonymous
>>337792
stfu faggot. 120 isn't what she wants. i fucking hate fags who tell every chick "you look fine, don't worry about it!" suck a goddamn dick.
>> Anonymous
if your metabolism is slow because of hypothyroidism, then fucking eat less. less calories = less energy to be stored as fat. that's it. there's no way your body can create fat without the calories needed to do so. genetics or diseases cannot be blamed for any ones obesity. faggots.