Читать книгу Why Am I So Tired?: Is your thyroid making you ill? - Литагент HarperCollins USD, Martin Budd N.D. D.O. - Страница 17

At her initial consultation Jane was aged 27 years, and in spite of a careful diet she had increased her weight by 5-6lb a month over the previous six months. Prior to this Jane had always been a lively, happy young woman with a settled job in the family business and a caring fiance. She was concerned that the recent weight increase was making her ill, for she now suffered from fatigue, depression and low backache. Her doctor and her family were convinced that her increasing weight (now 50lb over her optimum weight) was causing the backache and fatigue, and these symptoms were making her depressed.

I know from my many years in practice that being overweight does not inevitably cause fatigue and depression, having encountered many underweight exhausted patients, and many overweight patients who were happy and full of energy.

Jane had also linked the fatigue to her weight, because the fatigue and depression had developed when her weight suddenly increased eight months previously, and her doctor’s comments had endorsed her suspicions.

Everyone including Jane believed that all her symptoms would improve if she could only lose 50lb of her surplus weight.

Unfortunately, the low fat diet that she usually followed to control her weight did not seem to work any more. This failure further added to her depression, and she became obsessed with the idea that she had let her fiance down by looking and behaving quite unlike her old self.