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Is Your Thyroid Making You Fat: The Doctor's 28-Day Diet that Tests Your Metabolism as You Lose Weight

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There are a number of good books available that deal with thyroid and weight. This is one of the most complete.

While Dr. Siegal is an obvious proponent of the idea that many people have undiagnosed thyroid problems, you shouldn't rule out the possibility that he is correct in his thinking.

If after you read this book, take all the tests, fill out the checklists, keep track of your temperature, and try his 28-day eating test, you don't think you got your money's worth, I'd be surprised.

The 28-day part of the title is a way to evaluate your metabolic function. There is a bit of math involved, but it's not especially difficult.

You use your present weight, your weight on day 29, various charts that help you calculate exactly how many calories you eat, how many you need to maintain your weight, and a number of other factors that will, in the end, tell you just how easy or difficult it is for you, personally, to lose weight.

This book does not support any one way of eating: it's not low calorie, it's not low fat, it's not low carbohydrate. It's not a diet book at all. It simply calculates your metabolic functioning based on whatever way you eat.

Dr. Siegal also gives strong arguments for the use of natural thyroid supplementation as opposed to the use of synthetics.

While some may find it too detailed, I think it's most complete in its coverage of this topic. In a way, it takes a lot of what other books have and presents all in one place.

The medical jargon may be a bit difficult, but it's great information to take to your doctor.

By the way, Dr. Siegal has a web site at: http://www.drsiegal.com

The book also provides web URL's to a number of sites dealing with thyroid.

As a doctor of pharmacy candidate and published reviewer ofmedical literature, I am in constant contact with patients whocomplain that their doctor dismisses a metabolic problem as the cause of their obesity. While hypothyroidism certainly is not the cause of all obsesity, Dr. Siegal makes a very convincing argument that, for many, it may be. Since his concern about the reliability of the TFT laboratory tests stems from his experience with many patients, his opinions are worthy of consideration.

My only complaint about the book is that Dr. Siegal does get carried away in his explanation of hypothyroidism. For doctors (and perhaps that is the audience he had in mind), the detail is appropriate, but the average reader might choose to skip some of the technical explanations.

As a medical professional, I am not inclined to dismiss the observations of a practicing physician who has treated thousands of patients for obesity. This book offers hope to those who don't overeat but can't seem to lose weight on any diet. END

As someone who was already told I have a thyroid problem, it's really hard to lose weight for me. I thought this book might be a help, but it really isn't. The book is for people who haven't had a thyroid test yet, or who don't know they are hypothyroid. But even if I hadn't been diagnosed already, I don't know if this book would have been any good to me. I don't know anyone who can stick to a 1000 calories a day diet like this Dr. says to do for three weeks. I really wished this book had help for people who can't lose weight but already they know they have a thyroid problem.

I learned middle 2003 that I have hypothyroidism. My Doctor put me on Synthyroid but I just haven't felt like it was doing any good so I decided to investigate the illness myself. That is when I ordered this book and was I pleased with the information you get from this book. I had no idea there was medication that was natural that supplies both T4 & T3 and how your body needs both to be balanced. I now have more hope that I will be able to control this condition after reading this book. It is written in plain language that a layman can understand. I recommend this book very highly to those who need help with Hypothyroidism.

Dr. Siegal has written a diet book that finally makes sense. For years I've been told by doctors that there is nothing wrong with my glands and that I just have to cut back on my eating. Well, I have cut back plenty, and I just don't lose weight. It's about time that some doctor has written a book that explains what is going on.

Siegal says that one out of four overweight people can't lose weight on any diet because they have something wrong with their thyroid glands and the tests that doctors do are wrong. I'm doing the test that he has in his book and in about two weeks I should know whether my thyroid gland is keeping me fat. This is the first time I've read anything that can explain my problem.

Siegal says he has had thousands of patients like me. If I didn't know better, I would swear that he has written this book with me in mind. This book is going to make a lot of people happy. It not only makes it clear why so many people can't lose weight, it tells you what to do about it.

I am looking for a nutritional guide to help me determine how to eat now that I have been diagnosed with Hypothyroidism. This is not it. I am an extremely active female and am gaining weight. I was hoping this might give me some insight but it seems to be geared more for finding the problem, not living with it. The basic information given was not something that I had not already read.

I read this book & was very disappointed. It has some basic things that anyone with a thyroid problem already knows. As far as the diagnosis method it is to eat a 1000 calorie diet for 28 days to see if you loose weight normally. And the diet to lose weight is to eat 1000 calories a day. Very unhealthy & unrealistic.

Three cheers for the good Dr. Siegal! He provides a way for any person to help themselves before or after being diagnosed with hypothyroidism. It was hard to put the book down once I started reading it. He is very opinionated on using natural thyroid for treatment and it is hard to dispute his findings.

He even wrote a chapter for your doctor to read and makes those with the disease wish there was a Dr. Siegal practicing medicine within a reasonable driving distance from their home. If you live in South Florida, you're lucky - you have him. Excellent book that anyone can understand.

There was nothing particularly difficult to understand or confusing in this book... even without a medical background.

The book presents another good piece in the hypothyroid puzzle, though by no means complete. Nor was it intended to be.

It presents a distinct possibility for a physiological reason behind an inability to lose weight. Have you tried dozens of ways to lose weight but simply cannot? This book may hold the answer. But then it may not. He never claims everyone's thyroid is bad...

I didn't find this book of any help. I was also already diagnosed but hoped to find a way to lose weight after 15 years of gradual increase in weight due to an underactive thyroid (hashimoto's thyroiditis). I couldn't possibly stick to this diet and decided that it wasn't worth trying anyway, just to find out what I know already. I had hoped it would teach me a way to eat that would help me lose weight, but it does not. It might just be of use to people who haven't yet been diagnosed, but I doubt it, because if the doctor hasn't diagnosed you yet, he is not going to do so on the basis of a book.