If you are not preparing your own meals, you are most likely iodine deficient even if you have iodized salt in the home. Prepared foods do not have iodized salt and restaurants do not use it.
Low thyroid function can make you fat too.
See last paragraph to check your thyroid function.
Check GF too. She could be iodine deficient too.
Post all of your lab work.
Please read the stickies found here: About the T Replacement Category - #2 by KSman
- advice for new guys - need more info about you
- things that damage your hormones
- protocol for injections
- finding a TRT doc
Evaluate your overall thyroid function by checking oral body temperatures as per the thyroid basics sticky. Thyroid hormone fT3 is what gets the job done and it regulates mitochondrial activity, the source of ATP which is the universal currency of cellular energy. This is part of the body’s temperature control loop. This can get messed up if you are iodine deficient. In many countries, you need to be using iodized salt. Other countries add iodine to dairy or bread.