Loosing Weight with Hypothyroidism

[vin]

My doctor, who I don't like at all, asked me about letting her put me on something to curve the hunger and help me to lose weight. A coworker who is diabetic said she lost 40 pounds on that medication. I'd much rather do that because losing anywhere from 20 to 40 pounds can get you out of danger of diabetes and reverse that insulin resistance. I became insulin resistant after my thyroidectomy. But my confession with my mouth is that I'm healed by His stripes and I refuse to accept insulin resistance and diabetes. I saw what it did to my mother and I REFUSE IT.

That same person told me that once they put on on insulin you hardly ever get off of it. You end up being insulin dependent.

I have a problem with the fact that I have made major changes in my diet, changes I used to think would be impossible for me to make and I'm still not losing weight. There is a lady at my church over four hundred pounds, maybe five and she's not diabetic. She does have high blood pressure. She eats and goes to sleep, wakes up at two in the morning and eats. She may be insulin resistant though because last year her blood sugar was 105.

I just refuse to accept it. As soon as I can find anther doctor I'm going to switch. I had decided on one but the woman don't take insurance. Have you ever heard of a doctor that doesn't take ANY insurance? It's crazy!

[stillfocused]

Vin..I am with on that. I told my doctor I am not taking nothing else. And the more I do research the more I realize that the drugs only make you need more. I told God I know that there is something else other than pills ( which only fix the sympthoms). If we are honest we dumped half the bad habits the doctors would go out of business. I watched my Mom go from taking 1 blood pressure to needing another after a stroke...no more..

[stillfocused]

I have found that if I cut out eating in restaurants and participating in potlucks I do much better.

[vin]

My job closed Aug 29. The next morning I got up and went to the JUCO and started my daily walking. I had been walking at work but I also was still eating a lot I shouldn't have been eating at work.
I started out walking 4-4.5 miles a day. It was wearing me out and I remembered hearing experts say that if you work your body too hard it can be counterproductive. So I cut back to 3 miles a day. During times of the months when I'm sluggish I still walk but I don't push myself. I just try to go along with my body. By the beginning of September I had lost 5 pounds. Yay me!

I was discouraged at first because walking every single day seemed like a lot. But when I looked back it had only been one month. So 4 pounds in 4 weeks ain't bad at all. If I managed that for a year I'd be at my ideal weight!

It's hard though I ain't gonna lie. But the whole time I'm walking I'm praying, quoting scriptures about being healed and healthy and whole in my body. Death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I'm still at home so I'm able to eat out a lot less and really work on my diet. I have to make some more changes and I'm determined to make them one by one.

Be encouraged on your journey to a thinner and healthier body. You don't want it nearly as much as God wants it for you!

[vin]

about 10 pounds total