I make Good Season's Italian dressing - the kind you mix up at home in the free little glass carafe? I use extra virgin olive oil, and wine vinegar with a little balsamic vinegar thrown in, and it tastes way better than the store-bought kind, plus it uses all olive oil, which is hard to find in the stores. Avocados are also a good source of some healthy fats (although a lot of calories too if you love them like I do). I like a few toasted pine nuts or almonds thrown in a salad. I love nuts in general, though, and can't keep salted nuts in the house or I'll eat them.
I'm doing a lot of reading about the thyroid stuff and am thinking of switching to Armour thyroid - the old-fashioned pig-gland thyroid supplement. The endocrinologists pooh-pooh it, but so many people seem to do better when they take it. Funny - I was reading a study today which purports to show that adding T3 to the T4 dose (which Armour essentially does) doesn't improve anything (by various measures of hormone levels, mood, thought processes, etc). They kind of glossed over the fact, though, that a large majority of their test subjects said they preferred the regimen with the highest T3. Ummmmm.... didn't they think maybe these people preferred it because, ummm, they FELT BETTER???? Sheesh.
Anyway - if any of you lurkers have had experience taking Armour thyroid, good or bad, I'd love to hear from you.
