It might also be just hormones. I for one have been trying to lose weight but now all of a sudden I lost a good number of pounds!
8 weight loss tips
1. Eat a high protein breakfast. ...
2.Avoid sugary drinks and fruit juice. ...
3.Drink water before meals. ...
4.Choose weight-loss-friendly foods. ...
5.Eat soluble fiber. ...
6.Drink coffee or tea. ...
7.Base your diet on whole foods. ...
8.Eat slowly.
Hello! You posted this in June - any improvement so far? What is your BMI and what is your goal weight? When doing cardio I was once advised to to 30 minutes of fast bursts - meaning if you're on a treadmill alternative 2 minutes each of high and low speeds - this will keep your heart pumping.
Are you actually overweight? It a scientific fact if you eat less you lose weight. There is no way your body can gain weight unless it has fuel. If it's not fluid then it muscle or fat. Simple. You need to see a dietician and set up a healthy eating regime and stick to it. I went thru a period just like you until I started being honest with myself and writing down everything I ate. I was surprised how hard it was initially to really write EVERYTHING down. I put a notice on my fridge and cupboards which read...Really? There are still times when I gain a bit of weight and I say how the hell did that happen. Honest answer is I got slack.
In that case, I think you should contact health expert or doctor. They can suggest you the best and don't loose hope. Nothing is impossible.
I agree that if you only had a TSH test for thyroid, you didn't really get tested. TSH is a pituitary hormone, not a thyroid hormone and it often, doesn't correlate with actual thyroid hormones. The tests you need to have done are Free T4 and Free T3 - actual thyroid hormones.
I'm confused, too, when you say: "I've been tested for hypothyroidism my blood work isnt consistent for my thyroid hormone lvls" Can you please explain that?
I agree that hypothyroidism doesn't cause weight gain for everyone; however, for many of us it does cause a lot of gain/inability to lose. There are also thyroid issues, other than overt hypothyroidism that could come into play, as well.
It's true that there are things other than thyroid that cause weight gain/inability to lose, but since the thyroid controls metabolism, that should be completely ruled out by having all right test, including the specific tests for Hashimoto's, which are Thyroid Peroxidase Antibodies (TPOab) and Thyroglobulin Antibodies (TgAb).
You might also look at insulin resistance as a cause... insulin resistance happens when our body doesn't metabolize carbohydrates properly. When we eat simple carbs - like bread, pasta, white rice, etc they tend to spike our blood glucose, which in turn spikes insulin levels in an effort to bring down the glucose levels. If the glucose isn't used quickly (activity), insulin stores it as fat for later use, but it often doesn't get used later so we keep gaining more weight.
You don't say how many calories you're actually eating and although it's true that calories aren't the most important thing, they do matter, especially if they're the wrong kind. If you aren't eating enough, between your 1 meal and 2 snacks that can have a detrimental effect on weight loss.
Did you actually get your thyroid tested or just your Tsh levels, which is more a test of the relationship between your thyroid and your adrenal gland. If you didn't get a complete analysis of how your T3 and T4 were both functioning and converting you didn't get your thyroid tested at all. But thyroid isn't the only thing that affects weight, nor does it affect everyone the same way. My wife has Hashimoto's and very few symptoms of it. You say you don't eat enough veggies, but I'd say if you eat one meal and 2 snacks you aren't capable of getting enough nutrients to support your life and especially not your exercise levels. As for sweating, that doesn't tell you how hard you're working out. That's more a function of output and time, not how much you sweat, that's just water weight. But no amount of exercise will compensate for a poor diet. You seem concerned primarily with the quantity of food you consume rather than what foods you're consuming. There are other things that also affect weight other than thyroid. With food, how you metabolize what you eat is more important than calories. Fatty fish doesn't make you fat. Fatty beef can. It's the difference in how your body is able to digest them and the kind of nutrients in them. Life is complicated. Aging makes everything harder. Look at the other members of your family -- what's their body shape? Genetics plays a role. The chemicals put in our food plays a role. How we prepare our food plays a role. Some people can eat a whole cow a day and not gain a pound. Others can't sniff one. It really depends and you have to find what does what to you. Keep trying with docs to see if anything is amiss, but also look to your diet and what you're doing when you're not exercising etc. It's more complicated and also easier than it looks. I'm pretty old now and when I look at photos of my youth there were no fat kids. None. Now you can't see a photo without one if you're looking at groups of kids. Why? Our lives and our diets changed. Things that are not food were taking over and human will swallow pretty much anything that can be swallowed and call it food, but that doesn't make it so. Don't despair, weight isn't everything, and there may be very simple things that can be changed that will help.
When you say "I've been tested for hypothyroidism my blood work isnt consistent for my thyroid hormone lvls.," what does that mean? Could you give some actual numbers of your levels? Are you saying they fluctuate?