To the rude people who thought that I wasn’t telling the truth/lying about my intake when I said how my under-treated hypothyroidism was not letting me lose weight, I upped my dosage just three weeks ago, and already lost 8 pounds.

Granted, some of that is definitely water weight, which people with hypothyroidism/Hashimoto’s retain a crazy amount of when untreated. But this weight loss in the past two weeks, not killing myself to it, eating around 1300-1500 calories a day, is the most I’ve seen since being diagnosed nearly a year ago. Before, if you had read my earlier posts, I’d been in a calorie deficit, eating the same (1300-1500) for two months and didn’t even lose a pound. I finally saw an endo for the first time, who agreed that TSH levels of 3 wasn’t optimal. (Was diagnosed at 13.)

So the next time you arrogant people try to shove down, “you’re lying about your intake/anyone can do it!” remember that some people have genuine hormonal issues that, when under-treated, makes weight loss impossible until levels are normal, maybe you should believe them instead of being so accusatory and rude.

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