mrsmole's Journal, 31 July 2014

Supplemental Journal entry for today, a rare thing for me, but necessary, I think.

A friend, Diane, remarked something about my thyroid after my offhanded remark about the fact that it sucks to have a slow metabolism.

Just for fun, I called my doctor to double check that my thyroid levels were, in fact, normal the last time I had blood work down in April. "We didn't check your thyroid in April," they replied. "The last time we checked your thyroid was 2012."

WHAT????????

That was a year and half before I started losing weight! I did some reading that severe and prolonged caloric restrictions can have an impact on your thyroid and pituitary gland. I asked if they can do a test in August (I was scheduled for September, but now I want it done ASAP). It would certainly explain several things:

1) It would explain why I lost 70 pounds over 7 months, then just STOPPED losing weight for no reason at all, changing nothing in my diet or exercise routine.

2) It would explain why going off my restricted diet for 3 days and eating 2000-3000 calories a day resulted in an immediate 13 pound weight gain and a net 6 pound weight gain several days later after the dust settled.

3) It would explain why, a week after getting back on the wagon and eating an average of 1100-1400 calories a day with daily gym visits and daily walks of 20-30 minutes, I'm still at 205.

I believe it's possible that 7-8 months of low calorie eating may have jacked up my system so badly that going off my diet and returning to a "normal" diet for just a couple of days caused my body to grasp onto every calorie and store it immediately as fat because it wasn't sure when it would get its next meal, like a starving little rodent in an alley.

So stand by while I have blood tests done next week, and get the results the following week. Part of me is really hoping that this is the answer. The prospect of there being nothing wrong with my thyroid or pituitary and having to deal with losing another 50 pounds with a metabolism that lives comfortably at 1100-1400 calories a day is, well, disheartening, to say the least.

And then I wonder how I became morbidly obese in the first place! Or rather, now I DON'T wonder! ROFL.

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1360 kcal

Fat: 34.74g | Prot: 94.57g | Carb: 160.06g.   Breakfast: Hillandale Farms Grade A Extra Large Egg, Kikkoman Chinese Style Egg Flour Mix Hot & Sour Soup. Lunch: Campbell's Tomato Juice, Subway 6" Applewood Pulled Pork. Dinner: Pineapple, Winn-Dixie Small Curd 4% Milkfat Cottage Cheese, Kraft Velveeta Cheese Slices, Ball Park Hot Dog Bun, Hebrew National 97% Fat Free Beef Franks. more...

2265 kcal

Activities & Exercise: Sleeping - 8 hours, Resting - 16 hours. more...