Thyroid and fat; an unending battle

Laugh it off!

There are many who laugh at the bouncing action of a heavy (read as over weight person!) falling down. It pains for me to see that almost everyone does his or her bit in putting down someone who is fat. They do all they can to make them feel the pinch of being ‘different’. Little do they understand that those well kept calories are not the result of compulsive eating! It is the result of slowed metabolic activity, something I have known and recognized all these years as Thyroid! It’s funny how, in the absence of thyroid, we would never have been the people we are!

The existing malady has taken us to achieve heights, which normal people fail to recognize! It’s easy to call a person fat, and generally easy to criticize, but extremely difficult for one to be persistent enough to fit that flab, and fight n unending and losing battle. Thyroid, besides getting infested in the form of calories also brings in lot many changes, changes that at times almost become life threatening, as it were! It looms large on your concentration power, plays havoc with your hormonal levels, presents you with fantastic spells of mood swings, lives your skin as lifeless, not to mention its effect on your hair, etc. The list is endless, all thanks to that little imbalance that a small gland that produces the thyroid hormone, right behind your neck!

I have come to believe that there are two types of thyroid; one that’s known as hypothyroidism, and the other as hyperthyroidism. Though hyperthyroidism, is as the name suggests a really drastic form of thyroid, Hypo, is no less a frightful experience either. Battling with weight and its effect on one’s sensibilities is quite disheartening at times as all the time all you can possibly find yourself doing is avoiding huge chunks of food, that you’d ideally enjoy as a normal person. Of course the best things in this world are high caloric; no two ways about that.

The trouble is when you start believing that even the essence or fragrance might be instructive for you to put on oodles of weight. It’s another thing to pep yourself up and fight the flab, and yet another to consistently keep fighting sans any help from the other, let alone sympathy. Hypothyroidism can do this and more. Many of us, like me for example have taken this as an opportunity to keep fit, and in a way it’s healthy too as much of your excess time and energy, (as being a woman, you’re naturally born with loads of it anyway!!) and although it’s a healthier option to live life, rather than taking up drugs for example, it’s quite a spot of bother when it turns with its ugly head at every outset. I’ll explain! When normal people eat high caloric foods, you’d probably put on a mere kilo or two, but with hypothyroidism, you’d probably put on a little more than twice the amount. But then, like I said earlier, it’s a battle that keeps your occupied for a large part of your life.

On the other hand, I think I’d make this scene a bit more brighter by saying that you really only lose out on the taste and nothing else. Truly, what you gain is tremendous. For starters, you’d probably, besides not putting on that extra pound, also avoid an expensive trip to the dentist. I mean if you don’t eat a pastry, (as generally most high caloric foods are either sweet or enriched with fat!) you won’t have to brush clean your teeth that hard, and neither will lethargy seep in. Moreover, you’re more alert, driving away all symptoms of thyroid that would ultimately attack you! That’s not such a bad thing is it?! Some food for thought!