I found thyroid people.... a.k.a. thyroidians :)

It’s been a sleepless kind of week; I have a biopsy on my breast on Friday. It will be nothing! It will be nothing! It will be nothing!

With that being said, I found a great weight loss/exercise/healthy living website. It is www.sparkpeople.com. The founders made a lot of money on eBay and this is their way of giving back, the entire website is free. Every day for a week, I have been entering every meal and snack I eat. At the end of the day, it gives you your target range for calories, etc. and tells you what your totals were for the day. Then you can see the week displayed and see how you are doing. Just watching the calories and fat add up are causing me to change some of my snacking. Then you log in all of your exercise and sets up a cardio schedule and a strength-training schedule with exercises. The exercises are the old-fashioned do ‘em at home and not in a fancy gym kind and you pick and chose and set up what you want to do. I also record our nightly walks and now the swimming time during the day as well. I have lost 3 pounds this week. Yay. But as we know lost is not lost until it stays lost, so I’ll see how long it stays lost. Because it’s still the original five pounds I have lost of the thirty I gained since my total thyroidectomy. I still have 25 pounds to lose to reach my goal. I was in this place a month ago as well. Perhaps keeping track this way I can keep going down instead of up and down and due to this website, I definitely have increased my strength-training exercises.

And why I mention all of this on here is because I found the hypothyroid and no thyroid people, they are on this website. There are spark groups you can join to communicate with people on discussion threads and there is a thyroid group and a hypothyroid group. I joined both. So if you don’t want to be alone with your thyroid issues, like I was feeling, go over to www.sparkpeople.com and join the thyroid groups. I just shot a question over to someone who has no thyroid at all too, and look forward to receiving an answer. People really do reply to postings here to, so your questions are not out in cyberspace somewhere. I hope to see you there!