And There You Are
Instead of saying, 'oh, you poor thing, you don't look like you feel well'—Doctors look at my body that needs to lose weight, and they say, 'I have a diet for you'.
If I looked the way I feel I would look sickly and thin, but I don't look like that.
After the doctor removed my thyroid thirty-five years ago I have been hypothyroid and stuck on big pharma's synthetic thyroid hormone replacement, Synthroid.
Here are some things I have learned over the years:
Don't believe them when they say 'losing weight isn't rocket science, it's calories in, calories out, and exercise'. There is much more to losing weight.
As a hypothroid sufferer, I was automatically put on Synthroid. Years later I find that half maybe more of the people put on Synthroid don't function well on it. They gain weight and have low thyroid function, and poor satisfaction with the medicine.
Many doctors don't listen when a patient complains. The patient is viewed as having a mental imbalance. Some are diagnosed with mental illness. You would think that's a giant leap but it isn't.
Just lately I read an article that stated that diets work for about one year, then people's bodies revert. I don't know why this would be, but in our case that was the case.
In my case, I struggled for eight months doing the diet and exercise, following it faithfully and lost twenty-eight pounds. Four of that was the fluid from our mission trip we had been on the month before we started.
It sounds maybe not great losing two pounds a month, but that was in spite of the tumor on my pituitary and no thyroid...and at least it was LOSING weight.
However, for no reason in the ninth month of the diet I began gaining everything I'd lost back. It was a year long program we had committed to. I continued on the diet for the last four months even though I gained it all back.
Even Old Fuzzy, who continued to stick to the diet, walking and exercising as before, it didn't work after the year was up.
