Thyroid Affects Oprah Like Many Other Women

by patgarcia | December 12, 2008 at 05:44 am

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Thyroid problems have a devastating effect on the emotions of women that have to battle against this "silent" illness. The damage inside can only be reflected by outside changes that could be mistaken as just being "overweight" sometimes it just doesn't matter how hard you work out or keep your diet or even if you never miss your pill. Your metabolism reacts even to weather changes, slowing it down even more during the winter. I had worked out and lost weight for my son's wedding this past November 22nd, I worked at it as soon as I knew about the engagement......... great victories!.... then all of a sudden my metabolism slowed down again, so I had to enjoy one of the happiest day of my life with that extra weight again and feel great! It has been a battle for many years, I've had to learn to feel good inside and not let the extra weight I sometimes have ruin the beautiful moments of life for me, even though I prefer to look great and slim, there is a stage in all these process when you really want to hide exactly the way Oprah says.

So here I stand, 40 pounds heavier than I was in 2006. (Yes, you're adding correctly; that means the dreaded 2-0-0.) I'm mad at myself. I'm embarrassed. I can't believe that after all these years, all the things I know how to do, I'm still talking about my weight. I look at my thinner self and think, "How did I let this happen again?"

You know how bad you feel when you have a special event, a reunion, a wedding, a bar mitzvah, and you wanted to lose that extra 10 to 40 pounds, and you didn't do it? So the day comes and now you've got to try to find something to wear that makes you feel halfway decent, and you have to figure out how to hold in your stomach all night and walk backward out of the room so no one sees that your butt keeps moving even when you stop. Multiply that feeling by a million—make that more than 2.4 million for every O reader—and you'll know how I've felt over the past year every time I had to shoot a cover for O. If you're a regular subscriber, you'll notice you've not seen a head-to-toe shot all year. Why? Because I didn't want to be seen. "