Weight & Thyroid

Well, I got on the scale the other day and was disgusted to find I'd gained two pounds. At a time when I need to LOSE weight, this wasn't good. Nothing has changed so I'm not sure where the extra weight came from.

Thyroid disease can be hard to handle, not just physically but emotionally. I was recently reading that taking iodine (carefully as you can do more harm than good) can help get your thyroid going, as well as something called ashwagandha. I haven't talked to my doctor about any of it yet and I would encourage everybody to discuss these things with a doctor before trying something new. I'm not sure if any of my thyroid is still working at all (living I guess) so I'm not sure if it'd help me at this point. So I've not done either, though I would really like to take diet pills and get this weight off once and for all. However, I have to be careful because my body reacts to medications unusually since my thyroid went wonky. How I react isn't even normal for thyroid disease patients so it's marked in my chart for safety.

I'm not normal - no big surprise there.