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Hello everyone! I figured I should just make a new post instead of just making the comments list longer and longer with my replies, and I have great news for you! ;-) First of all let me say thank you to everyone who is following this blog, and even if you aren't "following" thank you so much for reading it! Thank you for the encouragement you guys are great! Thanks for your thoughts and a lot of those I will answer in this post. I have been commenting back but here's just a little more about me to maybe answer some more of your questions.

A lot of you are talking about possibly taking natural thyroid medications and although I haven't asked recently the last time I talked to my specialist, and the specialist before her both said I couldn't take those. I'm not exactly sure why but I do know that my first specialist said it was crucial that I didn't go into a health food store and 1. eat soy products and 2. take any natural supplements. At first I thought he meant that no one with low thyroid could do that, but after reading a lot of your comments I guess he was talking to me specifically. I'm going to have to ask my specialist again when I see her in a few weeks. Also I have done tons and tons (and boy do I mean tons) of other tests to see if there is anything wrong. Some of them I've even done more than once. We sometimes test it separately and other times just do it when I'm getting my TSH, T3 and T4 tested. Also I get those three tests done every 6-8 weeks almost always my T3 and T4 are right at the normal level or a tiny bit high or low. But my TSH is what is always crazy. Some other people have mentioned possibly taking Cytomel with my Levoxyl, and I was for almost a year and a half. She finally said it's not doing anything for you unless it's making you worse so she took me off of that.

Also a lot of you (the people who found me from Mary's site) have weight problems or have had weight problems like myself. I feel for you guys, it's hard and although you try not to care what other people think you do. My husband, he's so amazing, and he always says, "Why does it matter? I think you're beautiful and that's all that should matter." And of course he is the most important person in my life so it really matters what he thinks. But he also doesn't have people giving him disgusted looks all the time and he doesn't have people making fun of them to his face when you're not even causing yourself to be this overweight. (I used to work at Starbucks and on more than one occasion I would have someone make fun of my weight as I was handing their drink to them. I wanted to take the lid off and throw it in their face. But instead I would smile at them and let my ranting about how much I wanted to punch them stay in my head) You guys are strong, so much stronger than an average person that is overweight. They cause that but you don't, and you deal with health issues and are going on with your lives as normal as possible. A lot of people were shocked to find out that I had health problems they always say they never would have guessed that I was going through anything. Just remember how strong you are. And know that you aren't in this alone and you CAN get through this.

As for me...I'm feeling great today, yesterday wasn't the best day for me but surprisingly I only ate 1100 calories and I was actually not as hungry as the days before! Also I said I walk a couple times a day and if the dogs didn't stop walking to sniff around or whatever I would count my time as longer, but I'm usually walking 15 minutes each time. I usually do that 2x a day but yesterday I added in another one! This morning I went around our apartment complex twice in a row and I felt so much better than I did just walking around it once yesterday! Also for my very exciting news: Today is Day 4 of the Thyroid Diet and when I weighed in this morning I weighed 316 lbs!!!! So I've lost 6 lbs in 3 days! I'm incredibly excited! Until next time!