They interviewed the doctor who prescibes HCG hormones and she said you need to restrict yourself to 500 calories/day to lose the weight as quick as possible. When you get the hormones by a physician they are stronger than what you find on internet which is the homeopathic version.
I don’t have any physician in my area who would prescribe HCG and honestly the shots are pretty expensive! I know myself enough to be sure that limiting myself to 500 calories is not going to work!
And I prefer not to try HCG packs available on internet because one of the people who got bad results said it caused hair loss…
My hair has already been affected by the Eat fat diet so I’m not taking any risk. I’ve been looking into traditional chinese medicine and the diet they suggest for my body type. I plan to practice yoga again after a long pause and will see how things evolve.

Thanks for your answer. I’m aware of type II hypothyroidism and am actually taking desiccated thyroid hormones and iodine and many other supplements to support my thyroid and adrenals.

After my weight gain with a diet rich in fat, I’ve been experimenting with Paleo diet which also concentrates on eating proteins and eliminating grains.
The problem is that I gained ever more weight! 6 pounds since I’ve started the original diet of Eat fat to lose fat. In my case, it’s been eat fat to put on fat:(

I don’t resonate with Atkins that much but the Paleo stuff is pretty much like the modified Atkins diet you’ve mentioned in your previous message. There’s no soy in it either.
So apparently high protein/fat diets don’t seem to work for me! I’m very disappointed because before starting this diet I was much fitter and my goal was to lose the last 10 pounds I need to lose to be at my ideal weight.

I’m currently testing a diet based on the dominant endocrine gland. According to them if your dominant gland is the thyroid or the pituitary, you’ll benefit from a high protein diet. If not, you’d better limit your protein intake as it can cause weight gain. And they don’t recommend eating that much fat.
So I’m kind of in the middle of that all, not knowing what to do…

If you try a mix of a diet based on Atkins (very low carb) but with the better nutrition principals of Nourishing Traditions you should be successful. Atkins is good for the most part but he gets quite a few things wrong like, he thinks soy is ok and artificial sweetener and doesn’t mention avoiding nitrates etc, but you can spot these flaws and avoid them if you already know about NT. However the basic principals of eating very low carb when you need to lose weight is the key to losing weight.

And if that doesn’t make you lose weight then you need to see if you have a metabolic problem like hypothyroidism. which I found out I had and even low carb didn’t work for me with this issue. But previous to my hypothyroid issue I didn’t lose 30lbs on atkins. If you are hypothyroid, which btw can be missed with blood tests as the normal range for FT4 and FT3 is too broad and then doc’s usually diagnose by the TSH anyway which is not always helpful.

Anyway if you think it might be something like hypothyroid then you may be deficient in iodine. Taking iodine is controversial. However, if you go to the yahoo groups http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/iodine/ you will find that there are a lot of people using it very effectively and safely for many health problems. I use 12.5mg as a maintenance dose as I am currently pregnant and can’t use higher amounts until after breast feeding is finished as the higher amounts detoxify the body of things like mercury, bromide, flouride, chlorine etc.

When you take iodine you need to take it with companion nutrients, 200mcg organic selenium, 400mg magnesium, 2000mg vitamin c and half tspn celtic salt.

But that info is all on the iodine group. You don’t have to be hypothyroid to use iodine either. A lot of people find they will lose weight after using iodine for a while as it balances out their thyroid and other hormones and detoxifies.

You can buy the right form of iodine from iherb, it is called Iodoral and the 12.5mg would be the best to start with. You could try to get your iodine through foods of course except there is the concern about clean sources of iodine rich foods. I am weary of any Nori (seaweed) coming from Japan at the moment. So I just stick with the iodoral tablets, iosol drops or lugol’s drops.

Anyway I hope something here helped, these are some of the answers I have found in my search for good health.

I’ve applied your recommendation for healing from multiple allergies. Have included raw milk and coconut oil but have gained 4 pounds instead of losing any!!!
I’m totally depressed at how much weight I have to loose now and feel stuck. Can’t eat meat at night because I’m afraid I’ll put on more weight. But if I don’t eat anything after 2pm I feel frustrated and hungry.
I seem to be allergic to egg whites and coconut oil has contributed to the weight gain.

What do you think I need to do? I was optimistic about your diet thinking it will resolve the allergies and help me loose weight. So I don’t know what diet to follow now…
Thanks for your help