Simple Tips on Losing Weight with Thyroid Problem

Simple Tips on Losing Weight with Thyroid Problem

It can be difficult or frankly, it feels downright impossible at times to lose weight when you are hypothyroid. But it is possible.

Here are some important tips for success.

1. Optimize Your Thyroid Treatment

Some thyroid patients — and practitioners — believe that if a thyroid patient has gained weight, or can’t lose weight, simply getting on thyroid medication will be the solution. Unfortunately, this seems to be less common that patients who, despite being treated, continue to gain weight despite eating well and exercising, or who can’t lose weight no matter what diet or exercise approach they try.

Many practitioners believe that for thyroid patients who want to lose weight, the first step is to optimize not just normalize – your thyroid treatment. What is considered “optimal?” Not only are TSH, Free T4 and Free T3 levels considered important, but Reverse T3, ferritin, leptin, and other issues come into play in terms of optimal thyroid treatment. Take a look at what some of the nation’s top integrative thyroid experts have to say about optimal hypothyroidism treatment.

2. Treat Hormone Resistance Issues

Some practitioners believe that hormone resistance problems — including leptin resistance, insulin resistance and thyroid resistance — contribute to the difficult some thyroid patient’s face in losing weight.

This means, having fasting glucose, leptin, and reverse T3 tested, evaluated, and potentially treated.

3. Increase Your Metabolism

Because hypothyroidism lowers metabolism, one of the most important things you can do is to focus on is diet, foods, and exercise that can here raise your metabolism.

4. Change Your Diet

Making changes to your diet can be essential to successful weight loss. This can include avoiding overconsumption of go iatrogenic foods and vegetables (watch out for those raw juice diets!), going gluten-wheat free and limiting simple carbohydrates and sugars.

5. Get Enough Sleep

A crucial factor for weight loss is getting enough sleep. One study showed that women who slept 5 hours per night were 32% more likely to experience major weight gain (an increase of 33 pounds or more) and 15% more likely to become obese over the course of the 16-year study, compared to those who slept 7 hours a night. Some practitioners have even said it’s better to skip a morning workout and use the time to sleep!

6. Try Supplements

There are hundreds of diet and weight loss supplements on the market, and very few of them are proven to be effective. But some may be of help to you in lowering appetite, lowering blood sugar, burning fat, or raising metabolism. One in particular that has some research behind it is conjugated linoleic acid. (Be careful, however, about supplements that are loaded with iodine.)

7. Get the Right Kind of Exercise

Many practitioners recommend regular exercise for thyroid patients who want to lose weight, but not excessive exercise — the kind that leaves you exhausted or recuperating for days. My exercise of choice is T-Tapp, but other patients have found walking, Pilates, and other forms of exercise effective. The challenge is of course actually doing the exercise!

Source: www.verywell.com