Small But Mighty: A Thyroid Life

May '09 saw the first ever Thyroid Awareness Week, publicised on thyroid sites. So far as I could tell, the media didn’t refer to it. For such a common condition which is often mis/undiagnosed, this is ludicrous and is why I write this blog. Thyroid disease, so commonly un/misdiagnosed, can be dangerous and even, in some cases, life threatening. Even where symptoms are generic it is a tiny gland powerful enough to run a life. The Thyroid: Small but Mighty

Which Charity

Which Charity was a website set up by myself and friends, with the aim of allowing users to find causes they are interested in and ways of helping they prefer. It also had the aim of raising awareness of and supporting various charities through free advertising. Check out the official video here: http://www.youtube.com/user/WhichCharity ..and 'The Charity Supplement' here: http://www.scribd.com/Which%20Charity (note that there are many thyroid awareness documents included in this list) The website has now been handed over to a new team of keen, qualified individuals who have the time to take it further.

Saturday, 29 January 2011

Theory

11:53 | Posted by Louise Sopher |

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I HAVE a theory.
The theory is that it is possible to train your body to the way you want it to be. I'm talking about food. I'm talking about routine. I'm talking about knowing what's good for you and what isn't. And here are my top tips:

Make a food chart. One the left side put 'No-Go-Foods/Drinks' and on the right put: 'Best Foods/Drinks For...' with sub categories for whatever it is that you struggle with, e.g. 'Energy', 'Regurgitation' and so on. When you are certain about those foods write them down. For example, under No-Go-Foods/Drinks' I have pizza or anything sharing those ingredients, wheat, and fizzy drinks. Under 'Best Food/Drinks For..Regurgitation' I have fennel tea and (lemon with hot water?), along with solid dry foods. Stick to this chart as your bible - refer back to it every time you have specific issues, and deviate only if you really believe that certain no-go foods are now okay, or if your diet is changing.
Make a chart with tick-boxes for whatever it is that you keep forgetting to do or running out of time to do. Examples include a sit-up chart; a chart to get your health back on track if you've been skipping meals or not showering enough (tick every time you do to get yourself into a routine). My chart includes tick-boxes for when I do physio exercises on my shoulders.
Teach your body to ask for only what it needs - nothing more. If you have to eat little and often then continue to do so; if not, try it. Have a specific-size breakfast (e.g. half a yoghurt with cereal) and if your body asks for the other half later then allow it. If you have what I like to call a 'crash hour' (more on this in a later post) where you feel pretty rubbish, could fall asleep,can't focus on anything and want to eat to try and get your energy back, then work on that hour and find out what is the 'perfect snack' for that hour, and keep experimenting until you find it.

Read Stories Told by a Tribe & Help them Save the Jungle

Please click here to purchase a copy of this unique book. 'IF someone says to you: 'the forest is nothing,' I will come and say: 'come and live with me, with nothing. No money. Come and live with me in the forest for a few months – you will survive. And I will go with you to the cities with nothing – no money - how do you survive?'' - Nelson Kelesau

Synopsis: FOR SIX weeks in mid-2010 I lived in a village named Long Lamai with a tribe in Borneo known as the Penan, a once fully-nomadic, now mostly settled community. Whilst volunteering to teach English in the village I also got to work on my own project to collect stories from the villagers and to publish it in a book and sell it for the benefit of the community. HERE then is that book, containing thirty stories from twenty-one people; stories to entertain all ages with tales from Penan music, myth and legend to more serious ones about struggles in poverty, education and the need for the jungle to survive.

Whilst the information on this blog is well-researched and where opinions are presented, it is said so, I am an 20 year-old hypothyroid sufferer who is investigating and encouraging awareness of thyroid disease - I do not have any advanced medical training: DON'T take my word as fact. But you can still try it.

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