10 Activities That Will Slow Down Weight Loss In Someone With Hypothroidism

In another post I wrote in my squidoo.com account, I wrote about a patient with a missed case of hypothyroidism that was doing what she thought was right to lose weight. Check out her work out regiment to lose weight (which is all too common) despite having hypothyroidism to see if it something you are doing too.

Here is the lessons she (and maybe you) needed to learn to turn it around and being to lose weight permanently:

1. Skipping breakfast: Look at the word breakfast. It is "break" the "fast" by eating food 30 minutes after waking. If you don't, your body goes into starvation mode and stores extra fat in order to survive.


2. Cut calories: If you cut them too low, back into starvation mode.


3. Exercise just after waking: Your cortisol levels are too high in the morning (or they should be), because you first need to "break the fast." It is better to wait till after noon-2:00 to work out. Utilize your hormones, don't do things to disrupt their normal levels.


4. 1 hour of intense exercise: This is too much for intense exercise. You deplete your growth hormone, which is needed to build muscle, which is needed to make your metabolism an efficient burning machine. The extra stress of the exercise increase stress hormone, which also place fat around your abdominal area as a survival mechanism.


5. Purified water: Water is essential to life. Purification gets rid of most of the toxin...which is a good thing, since those things can disrupt thyroid hormone utilization. Unfortunately, it does not filter out fluoride. Fluoride binds to the thyroid hormone where iodine should be bound (in order to convert T4 to T3).


6. Soy: This increases thyroid hormone binding with certain proteins, making the hormone useless. They have also been shown to stimulate goiter formation and antibodies against the thyroid gland (autoimmune disease).


7. High protein diet: Animals are fed chemicals in their food to keep it fresher (blocks thyroid receptors), given soy as food because it is cheap (see #6) and pumped with estrogens in order to beef up (estrogen blocks conversion of T4 to T3)...which is all given to you when you eat those meats.


8. Bottled water: plastics have chemicals that mimic estrogens and can block the conversion of T4 to T3. These are given off from the bottle into the water, especially if it is heated.


9. Salmon: What should be a super food, high levels of mercury and other toxins are bound to the fat in these fish. These toxins block conversion of T4 to T3 and disrupts the thyroid receptors.


10. Broccoli: another super food, but is often times sprayed with pesticides. It also has goitrogens if it is eaten raw, which are known to block the conversion of T4 to T3.
    

There you go. 10 common mistakes that may actually be hindering your goal of weight loss (and all other symptoms of hypothyroidism), even though many professionals may be telling you that is how to lose weight.

Lifestyle changes, when done correctly, can be some of the most powerful solutions to your problems.

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