"I'm concerned about my weight and how easily I'm gaining it right now."
"Have you thought about the lap band?"
Again? Really? *sigh* Are the people who make the lap band paying these people lots of $$$ to promote this procedure? If I go to my endo next month and he makes the suggestion, I think I will give up and start thinking seriously about it. Or, if I get to next summer and haven't seen much progress, I will start inquiries.
That's reasonable, right? I think so.
When I said I didn't want to go that route yet (I mean, we ARE talking about surgery here. Who wants to voluntarily have abdominal surgery? I'm not even sure I want to voluntarily have eye surgery.), what is the next suggestion? Weight Watchers. Hrmph. Journal your food intake. Or do NutriSystem.
Okay. What I need is something that is going to boost my metabolism. While following a diet plan may (or may not) help my weight loss efforts, it does NOT affect my metabolism. It doesn't. When I go back to even semi-normal eating habits, my weight will, again, skyrocket up. I know this. You know this...it's normal even without a metabolism-killing thyroid problem. I need to be exercising, building muscle, etc.
So, okay...how about my nearly complete lack of energy?
It could be several things. Including a B-12 deficiency.
Okay.... Can we just do a whole workup? Thyroid (send it to my endo!) including TSH, T4, T3 and antithyrogen (or whatever that's called), check my sugar, check my vitamins...check EVERYTHING.
Supposedly, it will be done. (Although, sugars have been checked before, and they, so far, remain normal.)
There HAS to be an explanation. I don't eat THAT much. Maybe I need to fast for a day or two and "reset". (A day won't necessarily hurt you.)
At your weight, I wouldn't consider gastric-band surgery. Even though it is less invasive as gastric-bypass it is still risky and unnecessary! You are on the right path and making it a deliberate life-style change will help. You will see results. We can do this!
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