Losing more weight! Advice/Help!

Have you had your adrenals and thyroid checked? Some times it's due to those organs malfunctioning.

I'm not sure what all goes into why some Lyme patients keep losing weight - some will gain weight, which was my issue.

Try including more healthy fats and food with high fat contents like avocados, peanut butter and other nut butters, make sure you are using 'full fat' versions of dairy and other items, make smoothies and you can use protein powders or 'meal replacers' to help add extra calories.

The adrenal glands are a type of endocrine gland that are triangle-shaped and located on top of the kidneys. thyroid.about.com/cs/endocrinology/a/adrenalfatigue.htm There are tests that can be run to determine if you need to have any medication.

Do you know what tests you had done on your thyroid? If they were just checking the TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone)- like many do - this is not enough to know if you are having thyroid issues as this only checks to see if you have enough Thyroid Stimulating Hormone circulating in your blood. There are tests that need to be run to determine if you have enough T3, T4 and other hormones - and even that may not be enough to determine any issues.

I had to go to several doctors and had some scans done on my thyroid and I kept being told that everything was withing "normal" levels, although they were at the lower end of normal. I still was having issues with pills getting stuck right at the level of the thyroid in the throat. I finally got in to see a doc that believed me and she started running more tests - and then finally started me on Armour natural thyroid. It wasn't until I got up to around 1 grain of the thyroid med that the swelling on the back side of my thyroid went down and now I have no issues with swallowing pills again.

Too many doctors refuse to look past the most basic of tests.
I found this site to be very helpful: www.stopthethyroidmadness.com/

You are very welcome -I hope it helped!!

If you don't have a dairy allergy, I would encourage you to increase those as well especially the raw milk products. They will have cream in them which will add calories.

Almost always, when dairy is mentioned the only dairy that people are thinking of is cow's milk & cow's milk products.

Usually dairy is hard to digest for many people, can encourage candida, and can be a mild allergen for some. Raw dairy and goat milk products aren't quite the same though - goat milk has smaller molecules making it much easier to digest, and raw milk products have the 'whole' product in them, and aren't altered from their natural state, so the person gets more of the intended nutrients. I'm allergic to cow's milk, but can handle goat milk & goat milk products just fine. I use raw goat milk for making my own kefir while I was treating my first round of infections and never had any issues with Candida or any other milk related issues.

If you feel just fine, it's likely that you aren't allergic. I wouldn't worry about it if I was you, especially since you are using goat milk products and raw milk kefir. The kefir changes the milk, so regular allergy tests wouldn't apply.

Revive, what do you cheat with? I have been super paranoid about eating anything with sugar and gluten. But I am dying to have a slice of pizza and a cookie! I can't seem to find a happy medium.

I second and third what a lot of folks have said on here. I got down to 87 lbs. Luckily, it stabilized but that was not a good weight for me. I did get back up to about 93lbs but I really did not start gaining weight back until I stopped the antibiotics.

Like margaret said, always try to have snacks on hand, that helps a lot though it is time consuming. Coconut oil, nuts and seeds, fat/bone broths (don't skim the fat), protein shakes, with veggies add hummus, with fruit add nut butters, with rice add ghee. You will be okay. The weight loss stinks I know it, but it will come back in time.