Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Thyroid, iodine, and weight loss

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Re: [fast5] Thyroid, iodine, and weight loss

I've been playing with "Japanese foods" for the last couple of months
and have noticed something similar. I'm not sure it's the iodine though:
I've had iodine-rich foods for some time (mainly seaweed),
but this time I added more fish, and stopped eating beef (still eat
chicken and pork though). Also I added tea.

There is decidedly something going on here, but it's hard to pinpoint
what it is. The current theory I'm testing is that it might have to do with
iron, esp. the heme sort. So in the spirit of scientific inquiry:
when you added the fish etc, did you cut back on beef/liver/ etc?
Also did you eat less pop and fruit juice? And I'm taking it that you
eat fewer processed foods? (packaged cookies, cereals, etc)?

On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:19 AM, RickS <rstewart@iaff.org> wrote:
> So, I let my weight creep back up to 204 over the last year, I think by snacking too much during my window. I've been reading about thyroid function and metabolism lately and I decided to add extra iodine containing foods to my diet like algae, seaweed, nori, fish, etc. Son of a gun, if I didn't lose 18 pounds in the last month and a half! It took me four months to lose that much last year! All I'm doing is sticking to one big healthy meal during my window and only eating things I could get if I were walking around outside.
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> This morning I was 186lbs. I feel like if I keep this up I can easily get into the 170's. Last year I was following fast five pretty strictly and only losing a pound a week. I can't say the only difference has been iodine, but I feel like it has made a HUGE difference.
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