I had four out of six chemos (3 FEC, 3 Docetaxel) and have put on half a stone and although officially I’m not overweighed yet, I’m just under that mark. I have never weighed that much in my life and my personal feel good weight is about 1.5 stones lower! I appreciate that I shouldn’t be on a diet whilst on treatmnet, but I can’t afford to put more weight on during either. There is still the MX and rads to come. So I’ve cut down on carbohydrates and out my veg & fruit intake up and weigh myself every other day. I start Tamoxifen sometime soon too (suppose after MX?) so def want to loose weight. I’ll go for WW, there is a meeting in a hotel just round the corner from me.
Well done everyone with the weight loss. I too am not exercising yet but weight is slowly coming off. Five pounds so far but at least as you’ve said the upward trend has stopped.
Hi all - can I join you? I’ve put on one stone one pound since diagnosis - but wonder if I should count it as more or less than that as I have also lost two boobs and gained one implant!
I do know I can’t wear all my old jeans… so maybe losing a stone & getting mu jeans on is what I should aim for.
It was my last rad zap yesterday so celebrated with pancakes and G&T last night, and am determined to “be good” from now on. Hope the pancakes weren’t too tempting for you.
Result, for the first time since starting chemo (2/12/11)I weighed nearly 1 kg less yesterday. I keep sticking to lower carb intake and more fruit and veg. Seems to work. Onc unit was happy about that and encouraged me to watch my weight.
I am joining you all properly now. One stone to lose to get back to pre treatment weight. I have been out for lunch at least three times a week for the past few months. Lovely but not good for the waistline. The problem is friends and family being really kind and hospitality is so much involved with food and drink. Thank goodness for Lent. My husband is giving up chocolate and Danish pastries so they will be banned from the larder…two less temptations.
I too shall do a lower carb cum weight watchers cum slimming world cum Ducan cum less on the plate. Here goes…a bit like stepping into The Dark Dark Woods again!!
Chubby Cackles
Need to join you all please!
I have gained well over a stone since diagnosis and needed weight loss before then,I have been a yo yo dieter for the last 40 years losing and gaining the same 2 stone.Think Slimming World was my best venture I was a Cambridge diet counsellor also during the 80’s when that was the most popular diet around.Searched for an Anti Estrogen diet and that leads to the Paleo diet,low in carbs,no grains,no dairy but hard to do.A really brilliant one if you are going alone is weightlossresources.co.uk they do a free 24 hour trial which you can enter over and over again.If you join fully all your plans are kept and it is easy to track your progress.
Having had this diet rant I have decided now to commit myself to joining Slimming world next Tuesday and joining Weightloss Resources again today,wow decision made no more shilly shallying.
That is the first positive thing I will have done since my Rads experience,got to kill this estrogen somehow.
Love and Light xxMavis
I too have done loads of diets - but never one where you go to a group - too embarassed!
On the plus side, although yo-yo dieting is bad for you, I’m sure it created the surplace skin I needed on my back for my LD reconstruction, so not all bad!
So am going for the eat less and move more principle, but the eat less actually involves eating more fruit & veg and less of everything else.
The difficulty is cooking less in the first place as I’m rubbish at leaving stuff for left-overs.
Did any one see Lord Sugar talk about his ‘Little Fork’ diet on Graham Norton a few weeks ago?
He had a starter that came with a very small fork to eat it with. On a whim (how great inventions are born?) he kept the little fork and ate his main course with it. It took him ages and he was full before he’d cleared his plate.
I am also gonna bounce on this thread !!!1 The little fork idea sounds fab I might go and buy a kiddie set somewhere !!! I need to lose 3 stone but reading this thread is it best not to do it before rads that start within the next 4 weeks ? Also do you gain weight when you are on Tamoxifen ??? I will keep an eye on here you lot really do encourage me that there is life after BC and during treatment !!!
Alice that’s a very common problem for those of us with empty nests, so hard to put less in the pan. One solution is to shop and cook as normal but then put the extra serving into a tub for the freezer as soon as you serve up - don’t wait to do seconds first or there won’t be any for the freezer, you will be wearing it on your hips. The “portion for Mr Cool-it-Kwik” is what stops you eating the extra! It also means when the fledglings come home or you have a night solo there’s a ready meal in the freezer and you don’t have to cook from scratch. If you’re into donating to hunger-charities etc you can call it a “portion for the hungry” then have a starvation fellowship supper once a month served entirely from the frozen portions and you have saved the cost of a whole meal. Just an idea, but seeing it benefit “someone worse off than me” (yes even when i have cancer) can be a great motivator, and remembering that in half the world they would love the chance to be fat!
Like the kiddyfork idea LOL.
Ermintrude sadly many of us tend to gain wieght while on tamoxifen much as we tended to when pregnant, some more than others. Essentially if calories in exceeds calories burnt, we will get fat and that’s it, but tamoxifen does shift the balance point in the storage direction I so wish there was an exercise-bike/hamster-wheel thing we could hook up to a generator to cut the electricity bill and get slim at the same time - even to recharge the recyclable batteries, re-fill your laptop as you burn off the pudding? C’mon inventors, where are you when there’s something simple and universally useful to produce?!
Room for a not so little one please? I’ve never been slim but have been comfortably curvy … now I feel like George Doors with my bald head
I suffer from making portions too big …but the nest has never been full so I don’t know what my excuse is! I did start off walking to the hospital for rads but have found if I do that, I’m good for nothing all day and was getting frustrated with myself. I’m taking the car, so I have the energy to do other things instead.
On the plus side, my OH has got the stepping machine out of the garage - I’ve just got to get on it!
Tomorrow, I’m seeing a personal trainer, a little extravagant but time to invest in ME! Hopefully, it should be good as, unfortunately, her Mum has recently been diagnosed with BC, so understands what we are going through.
Annie re the portion size, it’s only my husband and me, I weigh rice and pasta (I cook half wholegrain rice and half white rice, just put the wholegrain rice 5 min earlier in the boiling water before adding the white one, same with pasta, not so keen on wholewheat pasta, so I cook half wholewheat / half white, thinking every little helps LOL. I cook about 130g of rice for both of us and give my husband a bigger portion and pasta I cook about 150g and again give my husband a little more) I weigh it with the digital scales so I don’t just guess the portion. The other thing I started doing is to use smaller plates and then I often count my chewing and try not to swollow before I chewed 20 times or there about. Really slows you down.
Evening starving ladies,
Having done well for a couple of days and losing four pounds I met a friend for lunch…you can guess. I am hopeless. Small fork coming up. What a good idea. Another friend I passed on my way home rang to congratulate me on my haircut ( I was driving without the Hairy Haggis because I was hot) grr , nobody was supposed to see the Gloucester old spot look. She then compounded her mistake by telling me she has now lost half a stone at Slimming World.
I think have have Body Image issues!!!
Cackles
I go to get weighed at WW in the morning, I couldnt go last week so hoping to loose 4 pounds and make it a stone. I am so trying to change my approach to food but it is difficult. Well done to everyone who is trying to turn the tide on an expanding waistline
Cackles it sounds like you have tactless friend issues (see the Annoying things ppl say thread) ppl like that bring out my latent anger management issues! One possibility for the future might be to arrange to meet up for a walk through the park together, rather than a sit down to eat meeting? I mean if there’s good food there and you want to sit and chat, of course you’re going to keep on eating.
AnneW wishing you all the best. You will get there. Just stop approaching the food, make it chase after you
It is a tough slog - I’m finding it much harder to shift any weight than pre chemo/tamoxifen. It is going, but it’s ounces a week rather than pounds!
Having said that, I’m not stinting myself on anything other than carbs - no weighing or calorie counting.
I have managed a 40min walk this week as well as my zumba class and I’ll be riding tomorrow, but am often too shattered in the evenings after work to want to do it every day. Hoping my energy will increase in time for the lighter evenings.
I so wish there was an exercise-bike/hamster-wheel thing we could hook up to a generator to cut the electricity bill and get slim at the same time - even to recharge the recyclable batteries, re-fill your laptop as you burn off the pudding? C’mon inventors, where are you when there’s something simple and universally useful to produce?!