Thinking of starting - underactive thyroid and weight is stuck

[TickleKate]

Hi guys

Just wondering if anyone can advise me? Brief history, im 29 (30 in sept eek!) Have two kids (DS 3 and DD 11 months). Was diagnosed as hypothyroid in Feb 2012 and am on levothyroxine, I have been on all kinds of diets for much of my adult life, was doing fine on Weightwatchers and have lost almost 2 stones. But for the last 7 weeks i have been working my butt off doing WeightWatchers, and lost NOTHING! grrr. I stick to points, exercise 2 1/2 hours a week etc etc and im just stuck. Im so disheartened, have had thyroid levels checked and they are fine, was feeling rough tho so have recently increased to 50 mcg and all of the "rough" feelings have gone, bar the weight loss.


So im considering a change of tack, i really wanted to avoid a VLCD again (have done CD and W8) mainly due to energy needed for my job and home life but also want to show my kids that eating healthily is the way to stay healthy blah blah but im fed up and cant carry on being so miserable and getting no results.

But now im worried that if im not losing with WW whats to say even doing a VLCD would make it budge? I can do the S and S if im going to get the results but am terrified of doing it and losing nothing, or losing some paltry 2lbs in the first week which would just be glycogen stores anyway!

Was anyone else hypothyroid and struggling to lose then had some good losses with S and S?
Has anyone any words of wisdom?

am feeling sooo desperate and fed up, please help me!

thanks for listening to my rant
Katy x

 

[weasey]

I'm afraid I don't have experience of this so I can't reassure you directly. But my attitude would be why not give it a go? What have you got to lose? If I were you I'd get a taster pack and see how you go.

 

[TickleKate]

Thanks for replying Weasey, I would say the same thing to myself i think. Im just petrified of doing it for a week and barely losing anything, cos no matter what i find VLCD`s sooooo hard! and to not see much of a loss would devestate me! But without trying i`ll never know. Well done on your loss - you`ve done amazingly well

 

[weasey]

Ta! I can imagine that it would be upsetting if you didn't lose much. But what you're doing isn't working for you right now so you've nothing to lose (bad phrasing!) by giving something else a try. Good luck!

 

[TickleKate]

thanks again, that makes sense!
Am going to see if friday brings a loss on WW and if not, S and S, here i come!

 

[bit2lose37]

I've got hypothyroidism and vlcd seem to be the only successful diet for me.

I've not updated my signature for a bit but I started at 15.5 size 18-20. I'm now 11.13 size 12 with only 1.7 to go to goal of size 10

As you can see my weight losses are good

 

[sonia doll]

My friend has an underactive thyroid and was able to lose a lot on this diet. Good luck with whatever you decide xx