HEALTHY THYROID LADY - MY WEIGHT LOSS JOURNEY - DAY TWO

Healthy Recipe at the bottom of the page

I am sure you are familiar with sweeteners like caramel, molasses, and high-fructose corn syrup but what about HFCS 42, HSH, and Jaggary. They are sugars,imbedded in the foods we eat and I am quite sure it is main reason why I felt yucky on day two of this 10-day detox.

All day I thought to myself, why do I feel so bad, I have made significant dietary changes since my thyroid disease diagnosis, therefore, I considered it to be pretty good – at least that is what I thought - until my health coach explained to me about the many hidden sugars lurking in our food. I was never a staunch label reader while grocery shopping, my health coach, Gretchen advised that if I want to lose weight and keep it off, mindful shopping/eating is what will garner success. She sent me a list of what to look for on labels. Now that I am armed with this list (see below), I will think twice before purchasing.  

For example, one of my favorite Paul Newman salad dressings contains sugar and the sugar is pretty high on the list of ingredients. The yummy gluten free crackers that I have purchased many times at my local “health” food store has various types of sugars in it. Add this all up and it equals to me not wanting to get off the couch today and the stubborn weight I have kept on for years.

Here is the list of sugars in food – So now, when you see HFCS 42, HSH or Jaggery, you will know this is sugar – Ya gotta know who your enemy is ( :

Agave nectar

Agave Syrup

All Natural evaporated cane juice

Amasake

Amber liquid sugar

Anhydrous dextrose

Apple butter

Apple sugar

Arenga Sugar

Bakers Special sugar

Barbados sugar

Barley malt

Bar sugar

Berry sugar

Beet molasses

Beet sugar

Beet syrup

Blonde coconut sugar

Brown rice syrup

Brown sugar

Buttered syrup

Candy floss

Cane crystals

Cane juice

Cane juice crystals

Cane juice powder

Cane sugar

Caramel

Carob syrup

Caster sugar

Castorsugar

Cellobiose

Chicory

Coarse sugar

Coconut palm sugar

Coconut sap sugar

Coconut sugar

Coconut syrup

Coco sugar

Coco sap sugar

Concentrate juice

Concord grape juice

Confectioner’s sugar

Corn sugar

Corn syrup

Corn syrup solids

Corn sweetener

Cornsweet 90

Creamed honey

Crystal dextrose

Crystalline fructose

Crystallized organic cane juice

D-arabino-hexulose

Dark brown suar

Dark molasses

Date sugar

Decorating sugar

Dehydrated sugar

Cane sugar

Demerara sugar

Dextrin

Dextran

Dextrose

D-frutose

D-fructofuranose

Diastatic malt

Diatase

Disaccharide

Dixie crystals

D-mannose

Dried evaporated organic cane juice

D-xylose

ECJ

Evaporated organic can juice

Evaporated corn sweetener

Ethyl maltol

First molasses

Florida crystals

Free flowing

Free flowing brown sugar

Fructamyl

Fructose

Fructose crystals

Fructose sweetener

Fruit fructose

Fruit juice

Fruit juice concentrate

Fruit sugar

Fruit syrup

Galactose

Glucodry

Glucomalt

Glucoplus

Glucose

Glucose-fructose

Glucose solids

Glucosweet

Gluctose fructose

Golden molasses

Golden sugar

Golden syrup

Gomme syrup

Granulated fructose

Granulated sugar

Granulated sugar cane juice

Grape sugar

Grape juice concentrate

Gur

HFCS 42

HFCS 55

High Dextrose glucose syrup

High-Fructose corn syrup

High-Fructose maize syrup

High maltose corn syrup

Hydrogenated starch

Hydrogenated starch hydrosylate

Hydrolyzed corn starch

Honey

Honey comb

HSH

Icing sugar

Inulin HFCS

Invert sugar

Inverted sugar syrup

Invert syrup

Isoglucose

Isomalt

Isomaltotriose

Isosweet

Jaggery

Jaggery powder

Lacitol

Lactose

Levulose

Lesys

Light brown sugar

Light Molasses

Liquid molasses

Liquid dextrose

Liquid fructose

Liquid fructose syrup

Liquid honey

Liquid maltodextrin

Liquid sucrose

Liquid sugar maize syrup

Maldex

Maldexel

Malt

Malted barley syrup

Malted corn syrup

Malted corn and barley syrup

Malted barley

Maltitol

Maltitol syrup

Malitsorb

Maltisweet

Maltisweet

Maltodextrin

Maltose

Maltortritiol

Maltotriose

Maltotriulose

Malt syrup

Mannitol

Maple sugar

Maple syrup

Meritose

Meritab 700

Misri

Mizuame

Molasses

Monosaccharide

Muscovado sugar

Mycose

Mylose

Nigertriose

Oligosaccharride

Organic agave syrup

Organic brown rice syrup

Organic cane juice crystals

Organic coconut palm sugar

Organic sucanat

Organic sugar

Organic raw sugar

Orgeat syrup

Palm sugar

Palm syrup

Panela

Pancake syrup

Panocha

Pearl sugar

Piloncillo

Potato maltodextrine

Powdered sugar

Promitor

Pure can syrup

Pure sugar spun

Raisin syrup

Rapadura

Raw agave syrup

Raw sugar

Raffinose

Refiner’s syrup

Rice maltrodextrine

Rice syrup

Rice syrup solids

Raw honey

Rock sugar

Saccharose

Sanding sugar

Second molasses

Shakar

Simple syrup

Sirodex

Soluble corn fiber

Sorbitol

Sorbitol syrup

Sorghum

Sorghum molasses

Sorghum syrup

Sucanat

Sucre de canne naturel

Sucrose

Sucrosweet

Sugar

Sugar beet syrup

Sugar beet crystals

Sugar cane juice

Sugar cane natural

Sugar hat

Sulfured molasses

Sweetened condensed mil

Sweet sorghum syrup

Syrup syrup

Table sugar

Tagatose

Treacle

Trehalose

 Tremalose

Trimoline

Triose

Trisaccharides

Turbinado sugar

Unrefined sugar

Unsuphured molasses

White crystal sugar

White grape juice concentrate

White sugar

Wood sugar

Xylose

Yellow sugar

 

Whew, I’m out of breathe, I guess this is the reason dieticians say, “If it has more than 5 ingredients. DON’T EAT IT.”

Healthy Thyroid Lady

Striving for healthy.

Tonight’s dinner:

 

 

Turkey meatballs and tomato sauce over zucchini squash

Turkey meatballs

I made the turkey meatballs by combining the turkey with chopped pecans (very fine used a mallet), basil, garlic and egg. Pan fried in olive oil.

Tomato sauce

Four vine ripened tomatoes

Half of an onion

About 2 cups of Low-sodium chicken broth

Fresh Basil and oregano

About 2 tablespoons of minced garlic

About 5 blueberries

About 5 raspberries

About 10 small walnut pieces

Cooked all in a pot for about 1 ½  hours on low then mixed in the food processor. Returned ingredients to pot and cooked for about another 30 minutes.

Zucchini

Peeled zucchini. Put the zucchini in the veggetti. Put the spiraled zucchini in a small amount of boiling low-sodium chicken broth for a few minutes, then pour zucchini in strainer.

This is a yummy dish

THYROID TeeTeeR ToTTer

I’ve swayed back and forth on the thyroid see-saw, for many many years now. Hyper/Hypo/Hyper/Hypo…Shooo, I’m dizzy! But, one good thing has come out of this recreation; I am sooo in tune with my body.

For example:

FOOD

Hypo-Don’t have much of an appetite, during this time. Digesting food is a sloowwww process! I believe Thanksgiving’s turkey dinner is still in there (sorry, that was gross). This is what’s frustrating about hypo, you are eating the least amount of food in a group setting, yet may be the only one who will visibly wear those calories in a day or two.

Hyper-Can’t seem to get enough to eat. I try to stay away from the grocery stores during this time. I want sugar, sugar and more sugar. I supremely crave a Dairy Queen Waffle bowl, (dipped in chocolate) ice cream sundae. What is crazy is that ordinarily, I don’t care for ice cream much. I seriously can’t have sugar near me, or else it is just not a fair fight.

SKIN

Hyper-My nails begin growing out of control. This is usually the first thing I notice when I am getting to much thyroid medication because I type on a keyboard for a living. Clickety-clacking nails on a keyboard are worse than nails on a chalkboard in my opinion. My skin is as smooth as a baby, this is one big plus for hyper.

Hypo-Skin becomes sandpaper-like. I can douse my skin in baby oil, yet, still take off a layer of paint with my forearm.

EYES

Hyper-Watery eyes and snow vision (snow vision is - visual symptom where people see snow or television-like static in parts or the whole of their visual fields, especially against dark backgrounds. It is much like camera noise in low light conditions). My eyes also look like I am on crack-cocaine-very wide eyed.

Hypo–Eyes are fine, but just a little dry.

NEURO

Hyper–Bad mood, irritable, jump sky high in the air if someone comes up behind me. My nerves are shot. No patience. Caustic tongue.

Hypo-Much more pleasant to be around. Don’t have the caustic speech because my brain cannot think fast enough to keep up with most conversations.

**Too Hyper–Weepy, hateful and just a monster that the Boogey man would be afraid to pal around with.

**Too Hypo–Apathy. Don’t care much for anything really. Beyond depression. The actual Boogey man could jump out from my closet with a hatchet and I probably would not blink.

OTHER

Hyper-Constant foot tapping, Fatigue, joint pain, muscle weakness.
Hypo-Fatigue, forgetfulness

Consequently, the next time I visit my Endo, GP, Gyno, Cardio, Chiro, Ortho, ENT and Ophthalmologist with any new concerns. I will tell them to please understand something, don’t dismiss me because...

I KNOW MY BODY!

I want to hear from you! What have you noticed when you seem to be getting too much or not enough thyroid hormone?

Crazy Thyroid Lady

EXERCISE!

EXERCISE! This word is not foreign to the thyroid sufferer I’m sure, especially for those on the Hypo-side.

“Just exercise” That’s¬all we need to do right? Well, the Crazy Thyroid Lady says that is what you need to do-Exercise!

Exercise your brain that is…cognitive calisthenics is what us thyroidians need because our brains can be affected by thyroid disorders…Why? I have absolutely no idea…and I am convinced my Endo doesn’t know either because when I ask her, “Why my cognitive abilities have diminished since obtaining a thyroid disease?” She does some tricky word-wrangling to make me forget what I was even asking her about. Similar to when my son, at eight-years old asked me what erectile dysfunction meant…darn television commercials.

I am really no match for my Endo and she knows it. It’s just not a fair fight, I am tired of her kicking sand in my face! And so, since I can’t get a clear explanation from my Endo, I’ve decided to do my own research. Then, maybe, if I can get my brain working right again, I can show my Endo a thing or two.

After researching, here’s what I came up with–Why the brain goes wonky, in the only way the Crazy Thyroid Lady can explain.

The thyroid has many jobs, but the main ones are WIFE and MOTHER

WIFE –The wife (the thyroid) is to send the right messages to the husband (who is the brain…ugh it is so difficult for me to say that, but this is for illustration purposes only). If the husband and wife are NOT communicating back and forth properly, there will be a breakdown in the relationship. – The thyroid and brain communicate with one another.

MOTHER-It is a mother’s (thyroid) job to teach and to pass on to the child (who is the brain in this example, and let me tell you my little man is definitely the brains in our household) good manners, discipline, morals, values and love. If your child doesn’t receive a good upbringing they will have trouble functioning. – The thyroid’s job is to send nutrients to the brain.

So there you have it…Now…ALL RIGHT YOU MAGGOTS!! DROP AND GIVE ME 10
This is your challenge for the week, try to do ten mental muscle repetitions for example, 10 crosswords, Sudoku, brain teasers or try to read something complicated, something out of your comfort zone.

PLUS – Try to incorporate 10 servings or more of fruits and veggies a day

Do I do any of this?...NO, but I’m gonna start. I have to face my nemesis three months from now (my next Endo’s appt) better equipped to go the distance with her…da da dum, da da dum d’da d’da da da da dum da dum (Rocky music)