Please help..

[Ninane]

Hi. I'm hoping there is someone who can help.

I never had a problem with my weight until my second pregnancy. I got very sick at 6 months pregnant, and despite lots of tests, I couldn't find out the cause. As a result of extremely fast weightloss while pregnant (almost 2kg per week), my baby was born 10 weeks early with emergency c-section.
After the birth they gave me complete bloodtests, and found that my T3 & T4 and TSH were totally too high, too low and all over the place. The doctor then told me I was in Thyroid shock and they operated immediately. They told me I have Graves Disease. Now 2 years later (my little girl is fine!!), I picked up more than 30kg, and only have a small piece of my thyroid left. I go for tests every now and then, and thyroid is now normal. I don't take any meds, but have this to ask. Why would I pick up so much weight if it were normal, and will I have problems losing weight on Atkins? With previous diets, I normally lost about 3-5 kg, and then NOTHING. I'm so scared it will be the same with Atkins. So far I haven't weighed myself, I'm on day 7 of induction - cheatfree. I'm too scared to weigh myself, because I don't want to quit!
I would appreciate someone's oppinion on this, maybe I'm just silly. I'm having a bad day emotionally today, bit tired, and the " what-if-you're-doing-this-for-nothing-monster" won't leave me alone.

Please help?

[2big4mysize]

okay are you getting a complete thyroid panel free T4 and T3? is your doc using the latest test levels for TSH in 2002 the endocrine society altered the threshhold level from 5 to 3

Be sure your doc is monitoring you as many of the induction acceptable veggies and the OWL foods are goitrogens. we have a list above.

The bodies first response to less cals weight loss is to lower thyroid production

Make sure you are gotting enough Calcium too so your para thyroid doesn't turn off your thyroid.

Glad your little girl is okay.

Happy low carbing.