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Originally Posted by dutcholiver I need help! I have gone to two different HRT docs, done blood work, and both docs say that all but two of my levels are "normal." I only had a slightly low dhea and test level. (I am 30 yr. old) My problem is that I absolutely can not lose any body fat. I am a trainer and I am maticulous about diet, training, etc. - that is not the problem. I consistently have a low body temperature of approx. 97.4 degrees. The only time I have been able to lose the slightest bit of fat (about .25 lbs in a week) is when I would drop my kcals VERY low for 5 days, 45 min cardio every day, then on the 6th day crank my kcals very high, do no cardio and watch my body temp. make it to the low 98 degree range. This has been going on for years. SO, I got fed up after my last blood work and decided to try and address the problem myself (insert judgement here). I suspected that it was my thyroid, even though my levels measured "fine," and I tried some very low dose armour thyroid (with some dhea to address that issue). This did help make the fat loss easier, but I was still busting my ass for .5 lb per week. I could live with that pace of fat loss, but because I self-diagnosed I stopped just because I dont know if I fixed the orginal problem or not. Help>
ANY ideas? Why would the armour work a little bit even though my blood values were fine. And even if my blood values were slightly off prior to my supplementing with the armour, why would it seem as if my thyroid was completely useless. |
If you do not have labs for FREE T3 and FREE
T4, as well as TSH, then not much can be said with regard to your thyroid. We need these to look at your thryoid status. Also Total T, Free T, and Estradiol levels are needed.
You also need to give your diet macros. I for one have to get my calories down to 1500-1700 to loose about 1.25 lbs per week with 3 days of weights (for 45 minutes to 1 hour) and two days of HIT cardio at 25 minutes.
Armour has some T3 hormone in it which will speed up your metabolism, and
T4 that converts to T3 in your body. If you do not need Armour and are taking it, then you will shut your natural thryoid production down, and you will likly GAIN weight and feel like crap. It can take months to rebound back to where you were, so be carefull that you don't screw yourself up playing around with hormones.