* The Thyroid Diet: Can"t Lose Weight? Your Thyroid May Be the Problem. * Manage Your Metabolism for Lasting Weight Loss. * 30 Million Americans Have Thyroid-based Weight Problems-Do You? * Author of Living Well with Hypothyroidism "Mary Shomon provides a comprehensive service for sufferers of thyroid disease."-Time.com For more than 25 million Americans it may be, due to the metabolic slowdown of a malfunctioning thyroid gland. The Thyroid Diet will help many previously unsuccessful dieters get diagnosed and treated—and proper thyroid treatment might be all that"s needed to successfully lose weight. Even after optimal treatment, however, weight problems plague many thyroid patients. For those patients, The Thyroid Diet will identify the many frustrating impediments to weight loss, and offer solutions—both conventional and alternative—to help. Discussing optimal dietary changes, thyroid-damaging foods to avoid, and metabolism-supporting herbs and supplements, it contains several different eating plans, food lists, and a set of delicious and healthy gourmet recipes. With handy worksheets to use in weight-loss tracking and a special resource section featuring Web sites, books, and support groups, here is vital help for millions. Contents Introduction........................................................................................1 Part 1: The Thyroid Connection......................................................11 1. Could You Have an Undiagnosed Thyroid Condition?.....................13 2. Thyroid Diagnosis Treatment, and optimization Challenges..............40 Part 2: Metabolism, Weight Loss, and the Thyroid........................65 3. Food and Metabolism......................................................................67 4. How Thyroid Dysfunction Affects Metabolism and Weight...............83 Part 3: Key Weight-Loss Issues......................................................90 5. Blood Sugar, hormones, Allergies, and Toxins..................................101 6. Drugs, Supplements, and Herbs.......................................................115 7. Stress, Mind, and Body...................................................................132 8. Exercise..........................................................................................152 Part 4: The Thyroid Diet..................................................................173 9. Your Thyroid Diet Plans..................................................................175 10. What to Eat: Recipes.....................................................................199 11. Guidelines to Live and Eat By........................................................266 Part 5: Moving Forward...................................................................289 12. What to Do After You"ve Tried Everything....................................291 13. Keeping the Faith.........................................................................310 Appendices......................................................................................325 A. Resources.....................................................................................327 B. Selected Resources.......................................................................361 Index.................................................................................................375 HarperCollins Publishers Inc. ISBN 978-0-06-052444-8