I can relate. I gained about 75 pounds from my lowest weight and I’m only 5’2. I had never been overweight in my life let alone obese. I think what kept me from having worse breathing complications was diamox and bromocriptine probably kept me from developing type 2 diabetes. I feel much better back at a normal BMI but it was a very gradual process.Thanks for the suggestion, its an interesting idea if I ever feel at my wits end I'll keep it in mind.
Yah the problem is, once you hit the really overweight point, almost nothing works, even when you do the right thing it takes some time and effort to turn things around at this point. I wouldn't be having all these problems if I abandoned some of my other strategies before I got to this point.
Unfortunately, when you're hypothyroid, your mental abilities are not functional, and as such, I was blindly following the advice of a coach -- it was this coach that made me gain 80+ lbs. I'm not gonna name names as I'm not a name and shame kind of person tho, because I blame myself too for blindly following it so the blame was shared 50/50. I was annoyed though that I kept saying "I shouldn't be gaining all this much weight" and he was just like no man just eat eat eat, eat high fat and high sugar, eat it all. Yeah, no.