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Lose Weight With This Thyroid Diet
Lose Weight With This Thyroid Diet by Terry Ryan
Okay, I am going to admit right away…that I just found out about this diet in WOMAN’S WORLD and blessed by the man himself…Dr. Oz. (Oh, Dr. Oz, my mother has a crush on you.) There it was, the magazine at the checkout counter with Dr. Oz’s charming face staring at me with a title in giant font – NEW FROM DR.OZ 60-SECOND THYROID FIX. And under it in a playful and smaller font was… It can make you 35 lbs slimmer.
Now what’s a chubby, hypothyroid woman to do? That’s right, I couldn’t resist and yanked that magazine off the rack and threw it on the checkout belt. $1.99 later it was mine. When I arrived home I sat my derriere on the couch and checked the contents for the only part I wanted to read. There it was, page 20! What secret 60 second fix was it going to reveal? (I’ll try anything.)
Totally intrigued, I read through the article as quickly as I could for the 60 SECOND FIX! There it was, near the bottom of the page. The number 1 thyroid boost is to eat 30 grams of protein to fire up your metabolism.
I am…yep…a breakfast skipper. My morning begins with water and my gel cap of 
Triosint, my hormone replacement medicine. Then I head to the pickleball courts where I play for around 2 hours which equals approximately 10k steps on the pedometer. After that, I pick my 85 year-old mother up for lunch, and I usually have a green or fruit salad. Mom will eat pasta or a sub. I love fruit and if I have any kind of animal protein, it will be grilled chicken. Dinner is another salad, maybe a baked potato. I avoid gluten, dairy, and white sugar, and I haven’t lost a pound in over a year. I also am a juicer. Lately, a lazy juicer and will buy a fresh veggie/fruit juice at the juice cafe. I’ve burned out 2 juicers (juicers in a couple of years). All this healthy eating has given me my energy back, but losing weight is still a struggle. I’m looking for the secret.
Here is my favorite juice recipe:
1 Raw organic beet
1 Apple
2 Stalks of celery
1 Cucumber
1/4 Piece of fresh ginger
Place all the ingredients through the juicer and store any leftover juice in glass jars with tops and refrigerator to keep fresh. Use on day two. I drink about 8 ounces at a time, 2 times a day. Please use organic produce.
I am going to try this diet from Woman’s Day for 30 Days to see if I can lose a few pounds. Wish me luck. If you want to find out if it worked or not you can sign up for my updates. I will never use your email to try sell you anything. I’ll only send you new EARTH SHATTERING NEWS about thyroid health and Hashimoto’s disease.
Here is the diet.
Start with this breakfast shake:
In a blender put:
- 1 Tbs of almond butter
- 1 Tbs of cacao nibs
- 1 Cup of unsweetened chocolate almond milk (Do they make UNSWEETENED almond milk?)
- 1 Serving fiber supplement (I’m going to use Heather’s Tummy Fiber that I use already.
- 1 Serving of chocolate protein powder
- Pinch of sea salt.
I’m sure if you cannot find chocolate protein powder, you can use vanilla or plain. Do not put any sugar in this drink in fact avoid all sugar while on this diet.
Lunch
Have 3 oz of turkey, 1 oz. of feta cheese, 3 sliced strawberries on a bed of green salad with slice sweet onion. Drizzle fresh lemon juice and a tablespoon of olive oil.
Dinner
Grilled chicken or steak (4 oz.), unlimited steamed broccoli with 2 tsp of olive oil, lemon juice. 1/2 Baked sweet potato.
There are other option meals to have for lunch and dinner. You are allowed one cheat meal per week that does not contain chemicals or high-fructose corn syrup,
Be sure to drink plenty of water. Coffee and tea are fine. (As always, get doctor’s approval before changing your diet.)
This diet is originates from the book, The Hormone Boost
(From Amazon) New York Times bestselling author Dr. Natasha Turner returns with a simple and effective weight-loss plan that harnesses the power of the six hormones linked to strength, energy, and weight loss.
When it comes to metabolism, energy, immunity, memory, mood, and strength, who doesn’t need a boost now and then? The Hormone Boost is the first book to provide an extensive, scientific overview of the six hormones that influence weight loss. Although it is widely accepted that the thyroid hormones control weight loss efforts, Dr. Turner reveals how the impact of five other hormones―testosterone and DHEAs, adiponectin, growth hormone, adrenaline, and glucagon―are equally important when trying to lose weight.
In Dr. Turner’s previous bestselling books, she taught you how to identify and solve hormonal imbalances. In The Hormone Boost, she focuses on optimizing what’s right and includes a revolutionary plan that has been proven effective for everyone, not just those experiencing symptoms of hormone disruption. With more than 60 recipes and a simple Pick-4 guide to creating meals, smoothies, and salads, the book makes getting the right balance of carbs, fat, and protein easy.
The Hormone Boost is chock-full of tips and positive research findings and features daily progress tracking aids and a weekly workout plan that emphasizes strength training. The book also includes advice about supplements for accelerating fat loss, improving sleep, digestion, and skin appearance, as well as building strong muscles and bones. You will find inspiration in the success stories from Dr. Turner’s clinical practice and TV belly-fat makeovers.
Rather than merely targeting weight loss, The Hormone Boost offers total wellness. No more deprivation, irritability, hunger, or fatigue that so often accompany diets. Dr. Turner’s plan will have you energized from the start!
Sounds like it may work. I’ll let you know.
Thanks for reading.
Terry Ryan
Hashimoto’s Is Not Stopping Jen!
Hashimoto Thyroiditis is Not Stopping Jen!
One of my best friends, Jen, who has known me since we cruised the night clubs together many years ago, also has Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. If you don’t already know, I have been battling Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, a debilitating autoimmune disease, for ten years now and have written a book, Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, after I was getting nowhere with traditional medical care and started my own research. 
(Frustrating!) However, unlike me, Jen has been doing extremely well with dealing with her autoimmune disease. She is able to work at a very demanding job, jogs/runs almost every day, does volunteer work, makes her own wine, and travels for fun to exotic places. I was absolutely shocked this summer when instead of meeting up with her old gal pals in Upstate New York she changed her plans and met another friend to go hiking in Peru. (Here is the trip Jen took.Click Here ) Okay, she sent her husband and son as substitutes, and we did have a great time with them, but nevertheless, it wasn’t Jen. What shocked me even more than Jen picking Machu Picchu over us, is that she has 
Hashimoto’s disease and she can hike for a week in Peru!!! We talked on the phone yesterday and her description of the chaotic and miserable flights to Peru from San Francisco would have put me in the hospital but she handled it with no problem. Heck, I am jealous!
Upstate NY
So, what is Jen doing that is different from the rest of the Hashimoto’s sufferers that allows her to have a normal life? I asked her probing questions as in what are you eating? What time do you go to bed? Jen says she stays away from gluten, sugar, and processed foods. I know this for a fact because years ago we were boating and came across some friends barbecuing on an island and I, dragging friends along, self-invited us to the barbecue. They were serving hotdogs, and there is nothing better than a grilled hotdog on an island in the middle of a lake on a summer day. I dove into mine but Jen turned hers down. I looked at her in shock as in how-could-you but she said, and I quote, “I don’t eat that kind of stuff.”
Now this was years before I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s so I was totally perplexed by that statement, but then again, I was blissfully living a life that was healthy even though I was eating and drinking anything I wanted with no ill effects. Jen had already been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and I had no idea what she was dealing with. Unfortunately, I was soon to find out. No, it’s not contagious but it is happening in epidemic proportions. I used to joke that I could start a thyroid support group because so many of my friends had thyroid problems. We compare what medicine we are taking and the dosages. I am taking 135 mcg of Tirosint and Cytomel. Most of my friends are on Synthroid. So why are so many (mostly women) suffering from autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis? We seem to be way ahead of the curve as far as other countries. My friends from England say that they know no one with Hashimoto’s and I have heard this is true in other countries, so the USA must be doing something differently. Some say it is the food we are eating. All the BGH (bovine growth hormones), the GMO’s, the fast foods, and I guess you could say the substandard foods that we are consuming in abundance. However, there are a lot of people who are consuming crappy food (excuse my language) and seem to be doing okay, and how I envy them. Then there are they thyroid experts that say that there is a genetic propensity that has to be present too for thyroid disease. Is that it? I have a genetic maker that makes me more prone to disease?
Jen said that she believes it is important to exercise and to keep busy. I too have tried to exercise with 
disastrous results as in having stay in bed for three days after 18 holes of golf. What I have is called post-exertion exhaustion as my body cannot recover quickly from exercise. On good days I can walk around the block but on bad days I have a tough time making it out to the mailbox. Hiking the Andes would definitely not be something I can do. Also, working a full-time job is something I am many other Hashimoto’s patients cannot do and I noticed in the Facebook support groups that some are on disability. Most of us drag ourselves through the day. I feel sorry for younger women who have Hashimoto’s disease as they have young families and are trying to do it all, as they were doing before being diagnosed. How they cope, I do not know? As far as keeping busy I do keep a pretty full schedule. I take care of an aging parent, a large house, multiple real estate holdings, and blogging websites for kicks. Sometimes when I am feeling good for a length of time, I will take on more obligations or projects only to realize I was taking on too much when I have what we Hashimoto’s sufferers call, a relapse. When that occurs I feel like lying in bed all day but I push myself to do as many chores or errands I can do that particular day. Compared to what I used to accomplish, it is now a dismal amount. I have learned to accept my physical limitations but vowed to research and try different remedies until I find a “cure.” Until then I will take one day at a time and hope for a better tomorrow.
Some things to consider:
Enzyme replacement
D3 supplements
Eliminate SUGAR!
Skip alcohol
Reduce coffee
Meditate
Understand your disease. Read my book. Click Here
Thanks for reading!
Terry Ryan
Terry Ryan
My Personal Session With Mary Shomon by Terry Ryan
Hello fellow Hashimoto Thyroiditis patients,
I had the great pleasure to have a one on one session with, Mary Shomon,a thyroid patient advocate. I visited her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/thyroidsupport on Monday and saw that for $100.00 you may signup for a personal telephone session with Mary. Impressed with Mary’s knowledge, I signed right up and the next opening was Friday at 3:30. I was booked.
Terry Ryan
Mary promptly called at the arrange time and she introduced herself and got right down to business. I paid by credit card. Then she went over my note I had sent her. “I see here that you want to discuss weight loss.” I have put on about 50 pounds in the ten years since being diagnosed with Hashimoto, and they were 50 pounds that no matter what I did to lose weight, they would not budge. Ack!
Mary speaks in a rapid fire way which is great because that way you get a ton of useful info in the 30 mins. It is also good that I have researched Hashimoto Thyroiditis so I could keep up with her. I had my recent labs done and had previously reviewed them 2x over the phone with my endocrinologist’s assistant, but I had the feeling she missed some things. I was looking at the actually paperwork that was sent to me by the lab, but the assistant was looking at a computer screen and kept on saying, “Wait a minute and let me find that.” Anyway, she had missed a lot and I am glad I spoke to Mary who straightened everything out for me.
Mary asked me for the lab results and then asked me for the range which is on the right side of my lab paperwork. Example below.
TSH 0.102 0.358-3.740 (I was over medicated on T4)
Free T3 2.83 2.18-3.99 (Mary said that was too low)
“Free T3 should to be closer to the 3.99 for optimal health and weight loss,” Mary stated. I had been taking Cytomel (T3) before but in the last few months I had stopped when my prescription was changed to Tirosint (150mcg) from Synthroid and my doctor had eliminated the T3 (Cytomel).
Then going over my lab report she noticed another red flag. My ferritin level was very low. 39
Ferritin (iron) 39 range 0-252 (I was low.)
Mary explained that I could cut all the calories I wanted to and join 10 workout classes a week and with my T3 low and my ferritin so low that I was never going to lose weight. (I should point out that my other lab results were fine according to Mary.)
Her advise was:
- Call my endocrinologist and ask for a prescription of Cytomel. If he prescribes 5mg ask for him to prescribe it as 2.5mg tablets and take one in the morning and the other after lunch.
- Start taking a iron supplement. This is tricky because most will be hard on the stomach and will cause constipation. She recommended a liquid iron supplement called Floradix and said that my local health food store should carry it. I could also call my doctor if I wanted to get a prescription for iron.
- Mary said to go to www.drrosedale.com and on that website there is a tiny heart that if you click on you can download a diet PDF. She said to follow that diet. I did download it (Ron-Rosedale-Health-Plan) and basically no fruit, no sugar, no gluten, no dairy.
I told her about my juicing and she is not too impressed with juicing. She said it was introducing too much glucose/sugar into the body at once. It was okay to juice celery and cucumber but to stay away from spinach and kale because they slow down the thyroid because they are goitrous foods. Goitrous is a substance that slows down the thyroid. It is found in bok choy, broccoli, Brussels’ sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, kale, mustard greens, radishes, soy, soy milk, soy lecithin (often used as a filler in vegetarian food) and tofu and now apparently spinach is on the list. I was using a lot of raw spinach and kale in my juices. Ugh! But I was feeling so much better with juicing and my skin is glowing from all the veggies, but no, I haven’t lost a single pound. (sigh)
Mary also said that some of her clients have had great results on fasting for two days a week. Let’s say you practice a Paleo diet 5 days a week but on Monday and Thursday you only eat 500 calories. Mary said that you don’t have to eat the 500 calories of the fast day and it may be easier to just drink water. She recommended a couple of books. See below.
Other tips were to check out T-Tapp for light exercise on Youtube. Mary said she has lost many inches by practicing the T-Tapp exercises. I checked it out and they look pretty easy so I will give that a try. Also:
- Limit snacking.
- No alcohol!
- Eat only three times a day.
- Don’t eat after 8:00pm
Okay, so that’s why I haven’t lost any weight. I just went out and bought a steak which shocked the heck out of my husband since I have been mostly vegetarian (the dog is thrilled), and I will make a spring salad with lemon juice as the dressing.
Yesterday I drove over to the health food store to purchase the Floradix but they did not have it. The young girl at the counter told me to take a couple of tablespoons of Plantation Blackstrap Molasses ($4.95/15 fl 
oz.) per day. Okay, that certainly was cheaper than the Floradix which runs around $20.00 for 8.5 ounces so I am giving that a try. It tastes okay, not too bad. What is Blackstrap Molasses? Click here.
So, I would honestly say that I am very happy with my 30 minute session with Mary Shomon and I would recommend it for anyone who is having problems with their Hashimoto symptoms. I will try all the things she suggested:
- Take Cytomel (If my doctor will not prescribe it Mary has already given me a name of a local holistic doctor who will but will not take insurance.)
- Try eating more foods that contain iron like steak.
- Take my iron supplement.
- Stop juicing spinach and kale.
- No fruit, dairy, gluten, sugar.
- Try T-Tapp for excercise.
- Try the 2 day fasting diet.
I’ll let you know how it works out.
Thanks for reading,
Terry Ryan, Health Blogger
Read The Thyroid Diet Revolution by Mary The Thyroid Diet Revolution: Manage Your Master Gland of Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss
Here’s a great article by Mary Shomon titled
Help, I’m Hypothyroid and I Still Don’t Feel Well
http://thyroid.about.com/cs/hypothyroidism/a/notwell.htm
Recommended reading by Mary Shomon
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