Can't stop losing weight

[Lizzie2]

Looking for a bit of advice please. Have been doing LCHF for 6 months now and reduced my Hba1c back to normal level (34) from pre diabetic (43) and reached what I thought was a good weight (8 Stone) but can't stop losing weight even though I have increased the amount of food I am eating (I now weigh 7st 5lb and don't want to lose any more). Have been to the doctor and had all sorts of blood tests which all came back normal. GP has suggested upping my calories again.

I am 5ft and aged 62 and keep my carb levels at 40g a day. I have had a a nodule on my thyroid for 12 years causing a slightly overactive thyroid but receiving no treatment other than beta blockers to help with palpitations, my thyroid function test (think it is was just the TSH test that was done) came back as normal.

My main question is should I just increase the amount of fat that I eat and try to increase my weight again to a suitable level or have more in depth thyroid tests which are very expensive (GP refused further tests).


Thanks in advance
Rose

I lost a load of weight quite quickly - I was 73.6kg in November last year when I was first diagnosed with T2

Looking for a bit of advice please. Have been doing LCHF for 6 months now and reduced my Hba1c back to normal level (34) from pre diabetic (43) and reached what I thought was a good weight (8 Stone) but can't stop losing weight even though I have increased the amount of food I am eating (I now weigh 7st 5lb and don't want to lose any more). Have been to the doctor and had all sorts of blood tests which all came back normal. GP has suggested upping my calories again.

I am 5ft and aged 62 and keep my carb levels at 40g a day. I have had a a nodule on my thyroid for 12 years causing a slightly overactive thyroid but receiving no treatment other than beta blockers to help with palpitations, my thyroid function test (think it is was just the TSH test that was done) came back as normal.

My main question is should I just increase the amount of fat that I eat and try to increase my weight again to a suitable level or have more in depth thyroid tests which are very expensive (GP refused further tests).


Thanks in advance
Rose

Hi, I lost a load of weight when I started LCHF in November last year when I was found to have T2. I was 73.6kg back in November and I'm 54. 5kg now - I began to worry that I would lose too much weight, I'm 5ft 1 inches and 69. I've been this weight for a couple of months now so I think - I hope this is my proper weight. I have a couple of eggs as an omelette every morning, occassionally a couple if boiled eggs instead. I eat a lot of unsalted nuts and seeds, in fact I tend to have them instead of a meal or with a bowl of soup. I eat a good meal once a day with meat or some sort of fish and a couple of different green veg and maybe a couple of baby new potatoes. I don't eat bread or a lot of potatoes or pasta because I discovered by testing before and after meals that grain based products and potatoes cooked in certain ways (jacket / mashed) raised my blood sugar. I'm afraid I've almost always had a pudding with my main meal - it's always berries and a dollop of cream. I cook with olive oil and I love coleslaw. I wasn't trying to lose weight, mine came off as a side effect of 'eating to my blood test results' - I've got a record of everything I've eaten since December last year and I just cut out the stuff that spiked my blood, once I did that the weight came off. As I've stopped losing and am eating the same sort of and quantity of food, I think I'm probably at my natural weight now.

I have Graves Disease which is an overactive thyroid with antibodies, I lost stacks of weight when I was first diagnosed but as I was treated that weight all came back I discovered an absolutely wonderful website ThyroidUK.org.uk and the help and support from their forum kept me sane throughout it all.

Like you say it can be really difficult when your doc doesn't want to do blood tests. If it's any help, I now organise my own blood tests using an accredited lab that I found on the TUK website - I've been completely signed off but I like to keep a check in what's going on - I have all my thyroid bloods, antibodies, CRP, vitamins D and B12 and a couple of other things done for around £100. I use their home thyroid 11 fingerpick test, you get the complete kit through the post, prick your finger, fill a tiny tube then send it off and get the results and a report back by email in a couple if days. No more pleading with your GP for blood tests. I started when they were talking about possibly giving me radioactive iodine and I had never ever had my T3 tested.

 

[75Bedford]

I lost a load of weight quite quickly - I was 73.6kg in November last year when I was first diagnosed with T2


Hi, I lost a load of weight when I started LCHF in November last year when I was found to have T2. I was 73.6kg back in November and I'm 54. 5kg now - I began to worry that I would lose too much weight, I'm 5ft 1 inches and 69. I've been this weight for a couple of months now so I think - I hope this is my proper weight. I have a couple of eggs as an omelette every morning, occassionally a couple if boiled eggs instead. I eat a lot of unsalted nuts and seeds, in fact I tend to have them instead of a meal or with a bowl of soup. I eat a good meal once a day with meat or some sort of fish and a couple of different green veg and maybe a couple of baby new potatoes. I don't eat bread or a lot of potatoes or pasta because I discovered by testing before and after meals that grain based products and potatoes cooked in certain ways (jacket / mashed) raised my blood sugar. I'm afraid I've almost always had a pudding with my main meal - it's always berries and a dollop of cream. I cook with olive oil and I love coleslaw. I wasn't trying to lose weight, mine came off as a side effect of 'eating to my blood test results' - I've got a record of everything I've eaten since December last year and I just cut out the stuff that spiked my blood, once I did that the weight came off. As I've stopped losing and am eating the same sort of and quantity of food, I think I'm probably at my natural weight now.

I have Graves Disease which is an overactive thyroid with antibodies, I lost stacks of weight when I was first diagnosed but as I was treated that weight all came back I discovered an absolutely wonderful website ThyroidUK.org.uk and the help and support from their forum kept me sane throughout it all.

Like you say it can be really difficult when your doc doesn't want to do blood tests. If it's any help, I now organise my own blood tests using an accredited lab that I found on the TUK website - I've been completely signed off but I like to keep a check in what's going on - I have all my thyroid bloods, antibodies, CRP, vitamins D and B12 and a couple of other things done for around £100. I use their home thyroid 11 fingerpick test, you get the complete kit through the post, prick your finger, fill a tiny tube then send it off and get the results and a report back by email in a couple if days. No more pleading with your GP for blood tests. I started when they were talking about possibly giving me radioactive iodine and I had never ever had my T3 tested.

 

[75Bedford]

Hi Lizzie2. Thanks for your response, I will certainly look up the blood test that you use as it would clarify things for me as I have so many symptoms of an overactive thyroid and its certainly much cheaper than the one I was looking at.

 

[chalup]

Thanks everyone for all your replies and great suggestions for me to try out. Chalup the fatballs sound interesting, will search the site for a recipe, Haven't had nut butter for quite a while but love it so thats a good one for me to have with perhaps some celery or if carbs allow on half a lidl protein roll. Already eat nuts but a few more won't harm

Look up fat BOMB, most of them use coconut oil and nut butters and many use cream cheese. Like low carb candy.

 

[75Bedford]

Look up fat BOMB, most of them use coconut oil and nut butters and many use cream cheese. Like low carb candy.

Sounds delicious

 

[ExD]

At under 5ft tall I immediately thought how much I'd love to get down to 7st again - but maybe not. Ha.ve you totted up tha actual number of calories you're eating - that may give a clue. I can't seem to lose, but I think I was binging (I just love cream) on fat and that put my actual callories up far too high!

 

[75Bedford]

At under 5ft tall I immediately thought how much I'd love to get down to 7st again - but maybe not. Ha.ve you totted up tha actual number of calories you're eating - that may give a clue. I can't seem to lose, but I think I was binging (I just love cream) on fat only going wrong was notd that put my actual callories up far too high!

Hi ExD. I enter all my food on MyfitnessPal and was having approx 1300/1400 Calories a day but aiming to up that to 1500 now. Think where I was probably going wrong was not allowing for calories burnt off walking so more than likely ending up lower than I thought. Good luck with your weight loss efforts.