Hi Everyone, firstly well done for all your efforts, successes and such lovely supportive advice for each other!
I am 59 and put on 1.5 stone before diagnosis of hypothyroid 6-7 years ago, on 75-100mg Levo……I found the whole Thyroid condition very complex and many of my symptoms have often been blamed or confused with the Menopause too! I don’t have lots of weight to lose at this stage but I’m only 5’2 tall with lots of belly fat around the middle and I watched my mum suffer lots with Type 2 at my age so am just trying to ward off the ‘hereditary diabetes’ if possible. I can feel my health slowly deteriorating, mainly muscle aches, weakness, joint problems, poor sleep, headaches etc.
Thanks to everyone for the many helpful tips p, especially regarding gluten.
Like someone else on this forum said – it’s really SOOoo hard to view ‘FAT’ as being OK!!! after keeping it out of our diets for 30 yrs, this one really worries me, how do we know it won’t be clogging up our arteries? But in these firts few days, I’ve been amazed to find I’ve lost 3lbs, maybe it’s just water at this stage but it’s encouraged me to keep going.
I wish everyone on this forum the very best of success with your individual goals, keep going, it’s great to be part of such a lovely group of people!! π