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Offline Barbaric

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Re: An unfortunate event...sort of
« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2010, 01:51:50 PM »
Being ex-millitary, I can sympathize with you.

When my three pairs of long-sleeved working blues (winter blues) were all but destroyed in the course of a week while working on a hazmat incident, I ordered new ones from the UDC.  Unfortunately, they didn't arrive before the Chief decided to have a work blues inspection.  Great timing, eh?  It's impossible to borrow a work shirt when your name is stitched to a name tape above the pocket.  I got 30 hours extra duty.  <insert invectives directed at Chiefs here as I think he did it just to be a jerk.  The entire department looked disheveled due to the previous week>

That's when I started keeping one set of each class of uniform that I only wore for inspections.  Come to think of it, when I went to various schools that required daily barracks inspections, I made my rack once and then slept on top of it in a sleeping bag that I kept on the top shelf of my locker.
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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2010, 02:18:25 PM »
Holy Nutmeg!  You and are are two nuts in a shell!  My thyroid shutdown after the birth of my second daughter too!  I also developed Chronic Hives after she was born.

Quote from: NutMeg on February 01, 2010, 06:00:14 AM
The Air Force now has a huge push for 'health'.  The dining facilityies should have better options now, at least they have a salad bar and a lean meat choice.  The AF is also seperating people that can not meet fitness standards, which includes a minimum abdominal circumfrece.  For women if your abdominal circumfrence is above 35 inches yiou are erolled in teh Body Composition Improvement Program.  That program is run by a registered dietician and often is a calories in/ calires out diet that is LF and HC.  I followed it for 3 years with no measureable success.  Then I went paleo/primal and have lost 30+ pounds and reduced my BF considerably.

There are many more over weight people in tehmilitary now than in the past. I was one of them.  But, I did have a legitimate medical condition.  In the Fall of 2005 I gained 40 pounds in 2 months after the birth of my daughter.  I had been losing weight steadily.  I was loosely following the Body For LIfe Plan, minus the supplements and staying fairly LC. But doing the HIIT and weight lifting the program calls for.  I was able to get to about 170 pounds by Sept, the baby was born at the end of July (I had been 205 at teh end of my pregnancy).  By Christmas I weighed 210 pounds.  We knew something was wrong.  Turns out tha tmy thyroid had completely stopped functioning.  I was very sick.

FInally finding a way of life that allows even someone with severe hypothyroidism lose weight has been a life saver!
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Re: An unfortunate event...sort of
« Reply #17 on: February 01, 2010, 03:15:09 PM »
Two nuts is a shell!!!  I like that much better than two peas in a pod!  But, yes it seems we have similar histories!
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« Reply #18 on: February 01, 2010, 05:29:32 PM »
Yes I figured it was more Paleo than peas  :D  Are you on Synthroid now?  How's the weight loss going now?  I'm still a very slow loser even on Paleo.  I too had been going to the gym doing heavy weights and HIIT and hadn't lost a lb in 6 months!  My diet wasn't super low carb....but it was definitely lower than the norm.  Anyways...happy to have another person on here who knows the struggle of thyroid.  Any tips?  Do you eat fruit?  Have your levels changed since doing Paleo at all?

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Two nuts is a shell!!!  I like that much better than two peas in a pod!  But, yes it seems we have similar histories!
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Re: An unfortunate event...sort of
« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2010, 05:37:45 PM »
I take levothyroxine .150.  I have been on that dose since August 2007.  It seems to help, but it took a long time to get the dosage right.  I may need to get it lowered soon since losing so much weight :)

I have really slowed down on my weight loss recently, but I have also increased my weight training so I am counting the lack of the scale moving as a lower BF percentage.

I do eat carbs.  I try to keep them lower though.  I have always needed to go low carb to lose weight.  So, now I tend to stay at about 50-100 per day.  I also try to eat carbs only on days that I work out.  I also try to stay away from too much fruit and get more carbs from nuts, berries and veggies.

I am researching exactly which labs I need drawn.  I think that i may have a problem converting the T4 in the levo into T3 for my body to use.  I still have a lot of hypo symptoms even though my TSH is 'normal'

Oh, and I have to 'brag'.  My TSH when I was diagnosed was 100, they retook the labs 2 weeks later and it was 97.7.  Yeah, I should have been in a coma!
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Re: An unfortunate event...sort of
« Reply #20 on: February 01, 2010, 05:40:28 PM »
Quote from: NutMeg on February 01, 2010, 06:00:14 AM
The AF is also seperating people that can not meet fitness standards, which includes a minimum abdominal circumfrece. 

I've been hearing this for two years now and it is simply not being enforced in the 552nd maintenance group at Tinker. PLENTY of overweight maintenance personnel, and in some cases it actually does effect their ability to efficiently maintain aircraft. Just by looking at some of the crew chiefs I can tell their PT "Evaluation" is pencil whipped. Who knows, maybe it's changed dramatically in three months. Doubtful. This is one of the reasons I didn't re-enlist.  At least the airmen straight from BMT and tech school were in relatively good shape.
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« Reply #21 on: February 01, 2010, 09:02:42 PM »
Well holy crumb hey!  That's crazy!  100!  My TSH was 4.5 one test then 2.1 then next test then 4.8 the next....which is "normal" according to their lab values.  But Endocrinologists feel most women function optimally at 2 and less.  Because it was varying so much I begged my family dr to test my Thyroid antibodies (because I'd had hives for nearly a year and they can be caused my autoimmune thyroiditis which can be a problem after childbirth) and they were sky high...you should have 0 in a normal person and mine were 400.  Now I am on 0.100 of levo and my TSH is 0.27 (which is technically hyper) but my free T4 is 12 (and 16 previous to that).  So if I was truly hyper thyroid from the medication then my free T4 would be sky high.  BUT since I have normal T4 on medication it shows that it's working fine.  I know I am lucky to have such a forward thinking endo as most people have to beg to be treated for subclinical hypothyroidism.  The antibodies haven't started to come down yet.  But I think with diet and time it will.  I am also starting on Allegra (antihistamine) and Cimetadine (higher dose) to try and stop the Chronic hives as they are very inflammatory!

Glad you're feeling better now!  Funny I did atkins about 10 years ago and felt the best ever.  then got bored and fed up and of course gained it all back plus some.  Now I am committed to paleo and I've never felt better!

Quote from: NutMeg on February 01, 2010, 05:37:45 PM
I take levothyroxine .150.  I have been on that dose since August 2007.  It seems to help, but it took a long time to get the dosage right.  I may need to get it lowered soon since losing so much weight :)

I have really slowed down on my weight loss recently, but I have also increased my weight training so I am counting the lack of the scale moving as a lower BF percentage.

I do eat carbs.  I try to keep them lower though.  I have always needed to go low carb to lose weight.  So, now I tend to stay at about 50-100 per day.  I also try to eat carbs only on days that I work out.  I also try to stay away from too much fruit and get more carbs from nuts, berries and veggies.

I am researching exactly which labs I need drawn.  I think that i may have a problem converting the T4 in the levo into T3 for my body to use.  I still have a lot of hypo symptoms even though my TSH is 'normal'

Oh, and I have to 'brag'.  My TSH when I was diagnosed was 100, they retook the labs 2 weeks later and it was 97.7.  Yeah, I should have been in a coma!
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