Im getting real with myself

[cop on a rock]

ok here goes nothing:

this is my situation:

36 years old
mother of two girls, ages 27 months and 8 months.

have serious hypothyroid issues (very slow metab)

currently on maternity leave from my day job as a Police Officer

Im am 5 10 1/2, and weigh 230lbs....I used to weigh 165.

I want to get this back (or atleast be around 170), for health, happiness, and maybe, just maybe, wear a bathing suit again. Although my health is the utmost importance right now.

I try to be dilegent and eat better, but often fail throughout the day because of two factors: one: I get seriously hungry and don't know how to curb the cravings, and two: I am wrapped up in raising my kids, i often miss a meal, then over eat, or I eat a fast meal that i can also feed the girls, can we say Raviloi, KD....I know it's shit.

I DON'T WANT to make ANYMORE EXCUSES.

the upside to this is: I ran a half marathon 6 weeks post partum after my second child...and continue to run 3 miles 3x per week

I have the inner athlete waiting to get back out there, but I need help.
I am desperate and don't know where to turn.

I don't know what to eat or How to eat.

Is there anyone out there wanting to help with some advice?

Thanks,

Cop on a rock

Ps: im not a donut eater by the way

 

[aima123]

Crop once you have a great determination to cope up your goal everything is possible. All you have to do is to have a self-descipline, that's the great factor of course. Beleive me a month or 2 you'll be losing some weight.

 

[tucker01]

Cop on a rock, Start here http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/showthread.php?t=21113

The information here is priceless. If you have questions please feel free to post, and we will try to help.

 

[Plateau_Max]

Pick yourself up some Hoodia. It's an appetite supressor that I've actually gotten positive feedback on. It's just a cactus extract, not some crazy drug.

The best way for you to prevent yourself from eating the wrong things at the wrong times is to really sit down and decide at what times during the day you're going to eat, and make foods that are healthy that you can keep with you when you're at work to keep yourself from having only crap options like fast food or ...donuts. Eat small meals, eat 5 times a day, and don't eat anything with addictive properties IE sugar, simple carbs, sugary stimulants like caffiene, etc.

Start the day off with real good complex carbs, then as you move through the day start to shift the balance from less carbs to more protein, then from even less carbs to more protein and more healthy fats, then to less protein and little carbs at all, and more healthy fat. This is where Jodi's grocery list would really come in handy (from the thread IainDaniel linked you to).

 

[ffemt]

The stickys are priceless here,Good luck and lot's of support!

 

[Trouble]

Diet is the vast majority of this game. With it, change how you metabolize food. At present, you're maintaining a large mass of fat and very modest lean mass - and that lean mass does not burn stored energy very efficients.

Its what you eat, when you eat and how you eat that will make or break you in this body reshape business.

Next, you need to assess lifestyle factors that affect stress hormone. That would be: stress effects from your job and your very busy time schedule between job and raising your children - your newest is going through big changes in sleep patterns and behavior, thats a lot to handle. My guess is that sleep quality sucks, and its sleep when you can get it.

Read the stickies here in diet, training, health, supplements. Ask questions in the appropriate subforums - all of us have gone the route of reshaping bodies. You already have a start: you are doing cardio and have maintained a healthy level of it. Now energy metabolism needs to be dialed in - and there is only one way you can do that. Strength training. It actives growth enhancing factors in the liver, and these change the way energy is partitioned between instant supply, and stores. It also changes the rates at which calorie are burned - thats basal metabolism.

Can't upregulate (boost) calorie burning until your body is freed up of the cortisol load its seeing from excess stress. So you'll have to begin using stress management techniques. Once your body fat starts to drop, the production of cortisol will also drop, as bodyfat levels and cortisol levels are related in chemistry through that abdominal fat you carry.

Welcome to Iron Magazine Forums.

 

[the7zen]

Hey Cop on a rock

You said "have serious hypothyroid issues (very slow metab)"

How did you know this ? did you have a medical examination or you determined that u have hypothyrodism based on the weight gain.
The reason i am asking is because my wife has hypothyroidism. She initially ballooned like anything and later the doctors found a porblem with one of her thyroid gland and then removed it, she is aslo on a thyroid harmone pill to get the daily required number. After the surgery and with regular medication she is back in shape. Also the dosage needs to be adjusted during her pregnency and lactation period.
Before you go on a serious diet please get a medical examination done on your thyroid (if you havent done that yet), hypothyrodism is treatable and you will see a significant change in your metabolism.

Note: Remember slow metabolism is not hypothyrodism.

 

[cop on a rock]

Thank you very much for this great information...I won't waste your time and not use this information.

Re: hypothyroid, I have been diagnosed and am currently on medication. I do however need to re-visit the doctor as I believe the dose may need to be tweaked abit.

It's refreshing to hear that someone out there with thyroid issues has lost the weight. It gives me hope.

Thanks for the warm welcome

Cop on a Rock (and not the couch