Hypothyroidism Diet Tips & Tricks for Women – Fix Your Thyroid & Lose Weight Fast
Author: Jennifer Jolan
Date: 2011-05-23T04:00:00+00:00
Publisher: MakeRight Publishing

Hypothyroidism Diet Tips & Tricks for Women –

Fix Your Thyroid & Lose Weight Fast

By Jennifer Jolan

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This short report is for anyone who believes they have an under-active thyroid (hypothyroidism) that is making their life miserable because it’s not producing enough thyroid hormones.

Hypothyroidism is 10 times more common in women than men. It’s especially common in women that are between 40-50 years old.

I’m going to share with you a bunch of cheap and quick diet and supplement tips you can use to help get your thyroid back on track and thus help you to lose weight.

In an effort to make this guide a sort of “cheat sheet” guide for correcting hypothyroidism, I’m going to leave out a lot of background information about the thyroid and hypothyroidism.

So by no means is this a complete guide.

The reason why I’m doing that is because I don’t want to make hypothyroidism so complex for you that you feel overwhelmed and hopeless to fix it.

To fix hypothyroidism, you don’t need to know everything about your thyroid. You just need quick and easy tips to help you out.

And the best way for most people to take action on information is to present it in small, bite-sized bits that they can take and use right away.

So use this information as a CliffsNotes guide with quick answers in it.

Ok, onward.

The thyroid is a little gland at the bottom front part of your neck. It secretes thyroid hormones, which regulate human growth, maturation, and the speed of your metabolism.

For it to function properly and efficiently, it depends on the proper conversion of the hormone T4 (thyroxine) into the hormone T3 (triiodothyronine).

When you become deficient in these thyroid hormones, you develop hypothyroidism.

When that happens, even if you eat somewhat healthy and exercise often, you usually won’t lose weight if you have hypothyroidism.

So it’s essential to get your thyroid back to normal for optimal health and weight loss.

Here are a few things to look at and see if you have any of the signs of hypothyroidism.

Just because you have 1 of these symptoms doesn’t mean you have hypothyroidism. But if you have a combination of them, then it probably means your thyroid could use a little help.

Hypothyroidism slows down your metabolism and bodily functions and causes such things as extreme exhaustion and chronic fatigue, depression, weight gain or problems losing weight, loss of hair, dry and brittle nails, sensitivity to cold (your hands or feet are always cold), muscle and joint aches and pains, puffiness or swollen legs and arms, unusually low sex drive, your menstrual period is more frequent or longer and heavier than normal, you have difficulty thinking or concentrating, you’re always constipated, your neck feels sensitive, your voice is hoarse or raspy, your allergies get worse, you get a lot of infections, you have shortness of breath often, you have a decrease in your taste and or smell, you get a thinning of your eyebrows, your speech is slowed, and the soles of your feet are painful.

If you have a bunch of those problems in the above paragraph, then it’s likely you have hypothyroidism.

With hypothyroidism, you are getting a "triple hit".

1. You lack energy and thus you eat and drink more to get energy from food and drinks with calories. Extra calories in your diet.

2. Your basal metabolism has slowed down. You burn less calories while you’re doing nothing. Most calories you burn throughout the day are burned doing your normal everyday activities, not exercising. Less calories burned.

3. Because you're tired, you don't do as many physical activities. Again, you burn less calories because of this. Less physical movement and less calories burned.

So say you eat an extra 200 calories daily and your body also burns off 200 calories less than normal because of your basal metabolism and lack of physical movement.

That’s an extra 400 calories a day stay in your body.

So in 9 days you will have gained about 1 pound without even really messing up your diet. In a month you’ll be up about 3.5 pounds.

In other words, with hypothyroidism, the pounds quickly sneak up on your and add up fast.

And the bad thing about what I just mentioned is that the 200 less calories burned by your basal metabolism is on the very low end. You can reduce your basal metabolism by up to 50% if you have hypothyroidism.

Now, I’m going to share with you some cheap and quick tips that will help you improve your hypothyroidism and hopefully get your thyroid back to normal.

Use any or all of these tips as you wish.

This guide is to be used specifically if you don’t want to go to a doctor and you want to improve your thyroid condition naturally.

However, if you’re really struggling with hypothyroidism, you should also talk to a doctor as well. There is only so much a short guide like this can do since I haven’t met you personally and can’t see firsthand the issues you are facing.

So here is the information you need to know that will help fix your thyroid condition and allow you to lose weight.

Lets get started.

Selenium

The thyroid is dependent on selenium in order to function properly.

Selenium is part of an enzyme that helps to convert thyroxine (T4) into triiodothyronine (T3). The reason why this is important is because T3 is about 4 times more potent than T4. T4 is mostly an inactive hormone that acts as a precursor to T3.

Most causes of hypothyroidism are caused by inflammation of the thyroid gland.

In addition to helping convert T4 into T3, selenium’s antioxidant action helps reduce thyroid inflammation caused by toxic metals such as cadmium (found in cigarette smoke), fluoride (found in toothpastes and tap water), and chlorine (found in tap water and pools).

(NOTE: Obviously avoid cigarette smoke, fluoride toothpastes, tap water, and swimming pools.)

Anyway, those 3 chemicals block iodine receptors in the thyroid gland, which reduces hormone production… which in turn leads to hypothyroidism.

Now, even more important than the antioxidant action on these chemicals is selenium’s ability to bind to those toxic chemicals. This renders them inactive and allows the body to expel them before they can do real harm.

So, how do you get selenium?

Common foods just don’t have much selenium in them, if at all. In fact, if you want to get selenium through eating food, your only real choice is to eat Brazil Nuts.

So it’s best to take a selenium supplement to get enough selenium in your diet for your thyroid. You’ll want to take 200-400mcg a day.

Take the selenium supplement with food.

Selenium supplements are cheap and usually very easy to find.

Also, just to be clear, taking any more than 400mcg a day is not necessary.

It won’t help you and it could lead to an imbalance in the nutrients in your diet… which leads to other problems.

A selenium deficiency is truly rare in 1st world countries. So although the thyroid is dependent on selenium, you should be very conservative with your selenium intake.

Iodine

Iodine works hand in hand with selenium.

Iodine is an important trace element because it’s actually a part of your T4 and T3 hormones. In fact, Iodine makes up 65% of your T4 and 59% of your T3 hormones.

So if you want to produce a healthy amount of hormones, you need to give your thyroid plenty of Iodine.

Iodine is absorbed through the blood in which it then helps in the production of your hormones, which then in turn get released back into the blood to allow your body to function properly.

The easiest way to get Iodine is to take iodized salt. So when buying salt, look to make sure it says it’s iodized.

To be clear, this isn’t permission to use a lot of salt in meals and foods you prepare. But you should realize that salt isn’t as big of a “bad guy” as it’s made out to be.

Now, if you don’t want to depend on using iodized salt to get Iodine into your body, you can get plenty of Iodine from eating eggs, cranberries, and cold-water fish. You can also take the supplement kelp too.

There are also foods you should avoid due to them being Iodine-blockers (interfere with the absorption and assimilation of Iodine and thus cause a slowing and reduction in the amount of thyroid hormones produced).

Here are some of the main foods you should avoid.

Avoid peanuts and any foods that have peanuts in them.

You should avoid soy and soybean foods and drinks. So don’t drink soy milk and avoid condiments such as salad dressings which have a lot of soy in them.

You also want to avoid or minimize eating bread because the chemical Bromide is an Iodine blocker used in the bleaching of the white flour in bread.

Although this isn’t a food, you should avoid using any types of prescription or over-the-counter drugs since almost all of them act as Iodine blockers.

Since you sit in front of a computer screen this can affect the thyroid. Radiation in general hurts thyroid tissue. That's why military always have Iodine on them in case of exposure to nuclear radiation.

NOTE: The optimum amount of Iodine is 12.5mg daily, which is 100 times the recommended daily allowance (RDA). But it’s almost impossible to regulate how much Iodine you get daily because you can’t really keep track of it all that’s in your food.)

Cod Liver Oil

More and more research is showing that Vitamin D is absolutely necessary for proper thyroid health.

This new research is finding that Vitamin D is necessary in the final metabolic step to make your thyroid hormones actually work and do their jobs. This happens within your cells, not in your thyroid.

You need to have plenty of Vitamin D within the cells to actually allow the thyroid hormones to have an affect on the cells.

You can get the Vitamin D from being out in the sun for 20 minutes a day. You don’t need to sunbathe, but you do need to allow the sun to shine on your exposed skin. Using a sunblock lotion actually defeats the purpose of this.

Since getting out in the sun isn’t practical for a lot of people, especially during winter, the best option is to take a cod liver oil supplement.

You can also drink whole milk since it has Vitamin D in it. However, if you’re concerned about also losing weight, then I don’t suggest drinking whole milk to get Vitamin D.

Either get cod liver oil or a Vitamin D supplement.

L-Tyrosine

L-Tyrosine is a precursor to your thyroid hormones.

So supplementing with L-Tyrosine is one of the best and cheapest ways to support optimum thyroid health and normalize an under-active thyroid.

You can get L-Tyrosine from a lot of high protein foods such as chicken, beef, turkey, and fish. You can also get it from cheese, milk, and dairy products… but since the focus on this report is to also help you with weight loss while improving your thyroid, I don’t recommend getting L-Tyrosine from cheese, milk, or other dairy products.

L-Tyrosine is a cheap supplement.

Not only does it help to normalize your thyroid, it also helps relieve depression and improve your ability to concentrate and think because it’s also a precursor to the brain neurotransmitters Dopamine and Norepinephine.

So if you have a lot of stress and just aren’t really happy about life, this is a great supplement to take to elevate your mood and ability to handle stress. Note that stress is also a major factor in contributing to hypothyroidism.

The weight loss effects of L-Tyrosine are also really good.

I can’t recommend this supplement enough!

(Although L-Tyrosine isn’t listed first in this guide, I rank it as the most important thing you can take to improve your thyroid. Iodine is actually more important, but if you’re in the USA or any other first world country, it shouldn’t be a concern that you’re not getting enough of it.)

Neck Tap

This isn’t a dietary tip for helping your thyroid, but I feel it’s important to add it to this report.

The actual physical tapping of your thyroid gland (it’s on the lower front part of your neck, where the “hole” in your neck is) stimulates an under-active thyroid to normalize.

You will need to do these neck taps daily and for a few weeks, but it’s so easy and quick that is shouldn’t be a big deal to do them.

Take 1 or 2 of your fingers and tap your thyroid with your fingertips for 15 seconds at a time a bunch of times each day.

I recommend you do this tapping for a total of 3 minutes a day.

You can do it whenever and wherever, even when you’re watching TV, so make an effort to do them so your thyroid can get back to a normal functioning level.

Zinc

Zinc supplementation re-establishes normal thyroid function in less severe and beginning stages of hypothyroidism.

Zinc doesn’t work as fast as other supplements listed above, but over a period of months it does work.

When taking a zinc supplement, be sure not to take copper with it (some pills mix zinc and copper together).

Copper acts as an antagonist to zinc.

Copper competes with zinc for absorption. So never take them together.

Since zinc and thyroid hormones both decline with age, it’s important to supplement with zinc in order to minimize the natural reduction in both zinc and hormone production.

Sleep

This is something I’m still researching out, but it looks promising so I wanted to briefly add this in.

Research is showing that getting up before 6am (sleeping past 6am really confuses the thyroid) is more important than previously thought for thyroid health. Be in bed before 10pm. (And don't adjust for daylight savings times... so 5am and 9pm in the winter).

This research is still new, but it’s showing that we need to go back to having similar sleep patterns as our ancestors did 100’s of years ago. Most people these days simply go to bed and wake up too late.

The world may be modern, but our bodies are still old-fashioned.

Exercise

The main focus of this guide is on diet and supplement tips, but exercise plays an important role for thyroid health because most people have a sluggish thyroid due to due to a slow metabolism.

So if you can speed up your metabolism, your sluggish thyroid problem will lessen.

I recommend doing some sort of exercise every 30 minutes or so to boost your metabolism. Just get up from sitting in front of the computer or tv.

Something that is relatively easy and you can do anywhere is 15 jumping jacks. If you have stairs in your home, just walk up and down them for 1 minute during tv commercial breaks.

Just get some sort of movement regularly and throughout the day and night.

I know you can fit in stair walks and jumping jacks into even a busy schedule. Jumping on a mini-trampoline or running in place for a minute at a time every so often will work.

Frequency of eating and drinking

This has a profound affect on your metabolism and thyroid.

Eat only at meal times… and eat only 2-3 meals each day!

Frequent meals and snacks suppress thyroid function.

The only exception is if you’re eating or drinking something that is almost all protein between meals… basically the only thing you can have is a protein shake. Water and tea are also ok.

Do you want to know 1 of the biggest culprits for messing up the thyroid is… diet sodas.

If you’re a diet soda drinker, get it out of your head that they’re healthy.

They AREN’T healthy. They’re horrible.

The aspartame sweetener used in diet sodas as a zero-calorie replacement for sugar is toxic and interferes with your thyroid function… as well as your brain neurotransmitters.

It’s a double whammy.

Want to know why aspartame is so bad for you (by the way, it’s in a lot of low calorie foods as well, not just diet sodas… yogurts, ice creams, and most processed foods that say “low fat” on the label).

Anyway, the reason why it’s so toxic and bad for you is because aspartame contains 10% methyl alcohol in it.

Methyl alcohol is wood alcohol… a precursor to FORMALDEHYDE.

I don’t want to go off on a tangent, so just please do a Google search on Formaldehyde to find out how bad it really is for humans.

(Note: Just to give you an idea. When Hurricane Katrina and Rita hit the USA and thousands of families were displaced and needed to move into Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) trailers, a lot of those people complained of difficulty in breathing, nosebleeds, violent coughing, extreme dizziness, asthma, bronchitis, persistent headaches and miscarriages due to the formaldehyde resins used in the production of those trailers. No doubt they also ruining their thyroids while living in them too.)

In a way, if you drink 3+ diet sodas a day and eat “low fat” labeled foods that are processed… you’re basically poisoning yourself with formaldehyde without even knowing it.

For most people the reactions won’t be as dramatic and as fast as the above problems. But they are in fact developing within you.

So drop the diet sodas and diet foods and tell anyone you know who is a big diet soda drinker to stop or at least do some research into the matter.

These low calorie drinks and foods just aren’t natural and the lack of calories in them will cause you to either overeat other foods to make up for the lost calories or the lack of calories will put your body in “starvation survival mode” in which case your metabolism slows down because of how it has been programmed over thousands of years to keep you alive.

Again, a slower metabolism coincides with a sluggish thyroid and hypothyroidism.

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Although this report was short and to the point, for most women (and men) who believe they are suffering from hypothyroidism, it’s all the information you need to correct it and normalize your thyroid function.

If you believe you have a more severe case of hypothyroidism, you should talk to a doctor. However, this information still will help you.

Once you start using this information, within a few weeks to a few months, you will start to experience less symptoms of hypothyroidism.

As long as you’re eating moderately healthy and also doing a little bit of exercise, you should also lose the weight you gained from having hypothyroidism.

Don’t think all is lost if you do in fact have hypothyroidism.

It’s treatable and usually can be corrected for most people… and corrected without spending much money.

It will just take some time and effort on your part.

This guide relies heavily on supplements to correct hypothyroidism, however you can adjust your diet to eat foods rich in the supplements listed. And don’t forget to avoid or minimize having peanuts, soy, and bread.

Now it’s up to you to take action on this information.

This guide is short and simple, but the information is proven to work for hypothyroidism.

I promise that in as little as a few weeks for some people, but usually in a few months, you will correct your hypothyroidism and also lose weight with this information.

Sincerely,

Jennifer Jolan

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