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Has anyone here lost weight with the assistance
Posted: Nov 8, 2015
Being as my thyroid is no longer functioning and my feet are just another thing, my doctor suggested a stationary bike to assist in weight loss. Never having had one, thought I would ask here if others had used and it helped. ;
the best way to lose a ton of weight is to get - outsourced to nuance
[ In Reply To ..]you will not be able to afford food, will be forced to restrict calories, and the weight will melt right off with no effort on your part. Oh, and I think the tremendous stress aids in shedding pounds also.
You own fault if you stay there, - not mine
[ In Reply To ..]People just complain and complain but don't do anything about it. Are they holding you hostage to work there?
didnt say I stayed there, just lost weight and made no money - Former Fatty
[ In Reply To ..]xxoo
stationary bike - .
[ In Reply To ..]Hi.
I've been able to lose weight using a stationary bike but you do have to make sure you're getting your heart rate up to the right level and not just casually pedaling along. I either read or watch TV while on it. I like finding TV series that I hadn't watched on Amazon Prime or Netflix and will only allow myself to continue watching the series while on the bike. A heart rate monitor might not be a bad idea if you can afford it along with the bike purchase. It would tell you when you're in your target heart range.
Honestly, though, I found watching what I ate did a heck of a lot more for weight loss. Exercise is helpful but won't get you too far if you're eating too much. I use the free program from SparkPeople.
Good luck to you. :)
Thanks for the information. Like I said my - thyroid is gone and the doctor
[ In Reply To ..]said possibly raising the thyroid dosage and the bike might result in some weight loss. Take for example, my meals yesterday were bananas and yogurt for breakfast and one sandwich that afternoon. That was also the meal the day prior. Most people would not survive on just that. I wish my weight was the result of overeating. I have no sweets in my home, hardly use salt, no soft drinks, water with meals. Oh, I know what worked years ago for me but now with the loss of my metabolism, it is not just pushing back from the table.
You actually need to eat more often than what you are now. - Shredded
[ In Reply To ..]Starving yourself is only going to throw your body into famine mode and that is the worst thing you can do.
Eat throughout the day or "graze" on all sorts of healthy, high-fiber, low-carb foods. Consider ditching the bread and any other white-flour products like pasta. White potatoes and white rice are also bad. Maybe consider sweet potatoes instead which offer much higher nutritional value and are super easy to cook whole in the microwave!
Drink crazy amounts of water. Pound a huge glass when you first get up in the morning to get your gut moving and just sip it throughout the day if you can.
A hunk of hard cheese or a small handful of nuts are great for beating daytime lows. If your body feels like it could take a nap, give into it! Just don't sleep all day...take a quick 20-30 minute nap. It's okay to do that!
A lot of people can only use recumbent bikes due to injuries and the poster that said you have to really crank on it is correct. Stretch and move whenever you can to try to regain flexiblity and even do lots of deep breathing to amp up your oxygenation which will help your muscles as well!
:) Good luck and try to embrace your new journey. It's going to take a lot of time, so go into it knowing you area in it for the long haul (ie the rest of your life).
Preaching to the choir. I am not starving myself - Like the other said, just don't understand
[ In Reply To ..]I feel so full right now, but wait I just did not have the yogurt and bananas and a sandwich, I had the addition of some hash browns my daughter fixed with my usual and I am so full now I do not want anything. No one is starving. For dinner/lunch yesterday it was baked chicken and cabbage, yogurt last night because I happen to like that. I am not tired, very seldom even want a nap. We buy sweet potatoes only, never use white. Baked sweet potatoes are staples here. If not bothered with the weight gain, thyroid issue, no amount of this and that seems to change it.
Diet - see message
[ In Reply To ..]I'm the LAST person to give diet advice, so consider the source. I've experienced a slowed metabolism since age 50 or so (now in my 60s), and the weight gain that comes with it. I started the Atkins diet about 2 months ago and am losing weight steadily. I'm not exercising at all (boooooring). Someone in an earlier post mentioned a low carb/high protein diet, and that's pretty much the definition of Atkins. Among the "forbidden foods" on Atkins are hash browns, yogurt, and bananas, but you can eat a LOT of rich, satisfying foods that cause your body to burn its fat stores. Again, not trying to give advice, but this is working for me. I don't know whether absent thyroid function would be a contraindication on Atkins, though.
Interesting. I will definitely check this out - could work for me- see my values on TSH
[ In Reply To ..]I am waiting for my thyroid medicine to arrive and when it does, will see if he upped the dosage like he said with addition of the bike might help. It is hard to understand the thyroid numbers, for instance my TSH was 23.88 and supposed to be 0.40-4.50 just about 2 weeks ago. I think I remember his saying did not pay that much attention to the T3 nor T4.
Me again - see message
[ In Reply To ..]Here are some nice things about Atkins: (1) no calorie counting, yummy food and plenty of it, and (2) you know immediately if you're successful by using Ketostix. These are purchased at drugstores or Walmart ($6.00/50 sticks). You pee on the stick and can tell whether there are ketones in your urine. You may already know this, but ketones are a byproduct of fat burning, so it's very encouraging to know that you haven't ingested enough carbs to stop your progress. It makes you feel like a fat-burning factory! :)
Diet - sm
[ In Reply To ..]It might seem to you that you are consuming a healthy diet, but what you ate yesterday ... bananas, yogurt, and a sandwich ... are not necessarily healthy. They all have a very high glycemic index. In fact, bananas and yogurt are very high in sugar. I doubt if you are eating plain unsweetened yogurt, after all. You didn't say what was in the sandwich but the bread is high carbohydrate. Sweet potatoes, while possibly better than white potatoes, still are high carbohydrate.
You are not eating very much, but what you are eating is not really very good. You are causing spikes in your blood sugar which then end up being stored as fat, over and over again every day. Add that to your thyroid dysfunction and you end up obese. I am surprised that you did not mention diabetes as well.
You really might want to look into the Atkins diet. It isn't that the Atkins diet is perfect, but when you see it you might begin to understand what is wrong with your current eating habits. That might enable you to change your eating habits so that you're no longer causing spikes in your blood sugar, no longer storing all that excess sugar as fat, and you might stop gaining weight and start to lose weight.
You doubt I am eating plain unsweetened - yogart is wrong on your end
[ In Reply To ..]Please do not assume, that is exactly what I buy and eat, only the plain and low fat always. The sandwich was pesto, sundried tomato, beef, goat cheese and Sara Lee Heart Healthy bread. Lab work 11/3 not totally fasting, had yogurt that morning: Latest blood sugar reading 91, all lab work including cholesterol readings normal. Why would you say you doubt, after all? What does that mean, being overweight mandates you have all other maladies?
Weight does not always equate to - type 2 diabetes, but you know that already
[ In Reply To ..]My SIL has type 2 and she is about a size 4 or 6, my husband (her brother) has and he wears a size medium men's shirt, familial diabetes. I just literally hate it when people assume weight means diabetes because not always the case.
Bike and diet - Nik
[ In Reply To ..]I lost 67 pounds in about 8 months by dieting and riding a Schwinn AirDyne bike every day. It does work but as one poster said you need to get your heart rate up. Fortunately, I was so out of shape that merely climbing on the bike got my heart rate up. Two things: It never gets easier to ride because with the Schwinn as you get in better shape your body works a higher level. So, the effort of biking totally out of shape at level 1 was was the same gasp-producing experience as biking 67 pounds lighter at level 4 turned out to be. Also, if you don't keep it up, you quickly get out of shape. Point 2: I was determined so I never took a day off. It works physically, but mentally it's bad for you. Being hard on yourself is not good for overall weight loss or keeping it off. I slacked off, quit working out, and had to start all over again when I gained back about 30 pounds.
AirDynes are amazing. Comparing a bicycle to one is like - comparing Wilbur and Orville
[ In Reply To ..]to an F16.
This isn't what you asked, but... - Sam
[ In Reply To ..]If you are able to do very low-impact walking, I highly recommend Leslie Sansone Walk Away the Pounds. Her workouts are uncomplicated, highly effective if done regularly, but not so intense as to make me dread doing them. They work the whole body. I have struggled with weight my entire life, and this is what works best for me, having tried many things. You don't need to buy any equipment to do them, and what is also great is that they can be tailored to your needs on any particular day, by doing the moves more intense or less intense. Good luck to you. My issue is definitely overeating. I can imagine it is more frustrating for you because at least I have the possibility of control, even though I fail much of the time.
Nobody Truly - Understands
[ In Reply To ..]anyone with weight issues and having a thyroid problem. Most doctors do not even "get it." Your thyroid controls more than just your metabolism, and losing weight is almost impossible, even with the so-called thyroid replacements. The synthetic man-made supplements just do not do anything for the body whatsoever. I gain on average 10 lbs a year even on supplements, diet, exercise, etc. Actually exercising seems to do just the opposite. I do not know what the solution is either, as I am continuing to struggle with my weight and I am very hypothyroid. Nothing seems to help at all, but you do have to keep from being de-conditioned, as that presents a whole other slew of problems. I wish I could help, being a thyroid sufferer, as well. If you happen to find a solution that actually works, please keep me informed as well. Good luck.
Thyroid sisterhood. This is what my doctor - suggested, have not tried yet
[ In Reply To ..]He suggested even prescribing a higher dosage of the medication, combined with the bike and of course watching the food intake. A week or so ago this was my diet for 2 full weeks: The zero calorie cabbage soup (the soup made entirely from vegetables), grilled vegetables, nothing fried at all, fruits. I ate that and nothing else for 2 weeks and the result was a big fat 0 weight loss. I stay really active, summer is much better for me because I am on the go all the time so deconditioning does not play a part in the weight gain. I first learned of the thyroid problem in the late 80s and like I said when asking about how my thyroid worked was told it no longer worked at all. I told my husband I hate to tell others what I eat because I feel I am not believed, how could you possibly gain weight on yogurt/banana combo for breakfast and a sandwich later that afternoon. Of course you must eat more, cookies, candies, pies, cakes? I had a friend one time who visited often who asked me why I never had any sweets at my house. My husband diabetic, me with the thyroid so he would not eat and I don't care to pack on any more pounds. I cannot do the walking thing. In the summer I love the water parks and swimming, wish I could still skate like in my earlier years but hubby has said I am too old for that, older bones here, cannot tempt fate with broken hip possibility. I go to places like Disney but rent the electrical cart for all day walking, other places that are less hours than I walk. Grocery store walking, Lowe's, Home Depot walking. I never know when the feet will act up, one has electrical current that shoots from the bottom at any time, out of the blue and the other one locks up in mid walk so treadmill, elliptical, etc. are not good in this situation. Thanks for your post and I know we understand how frustrating this is, especially when you hear people say just push away from the table, correct?
Exactly! - Everyone
[ In Reply To ..]thinks it is an eating problem, and it is not. I eat once daily, after I finish working, and that is it. They say you should eat 4 to 5 smaller meals per day to keep your body burning calories, but if I ate that much, i would gain even more. Nobody understands. My feet hurt too, from the weight, I suppose (180 at 5'2"), and my knees, as well. walking is difficult to say the least. even getting down on the floor for any exercise is futile. getting back up is even harder. I have tried yoga. It makes you limber but does nothing for the weight. I will be 66 in a few more days and so wish I could be 140 pounds again, where i was before my thyroid quit, but I guess that will never happen. Everyone who knows me says "exercise," but they have not walked in these shoes and have no idea what it is like. Of course we give up because nothing changes no matter what you do. I stopped the synthetic thyroid medications and take only natural desiccated thyroid now. I think it does more, as it has both T3 and T4 in it, where the synthetics do not. I did lose 6 pounds after starting it, but then plateaued. More research needs to be done about hypothyroidism and less blame put on the person who has it. they are really truly clueless!
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