food log- let's get specific

paige-allyson

Breakfast: whole wheat bagel, 2 t peanut butter, apple, coffee x 1 w/ organic milk

Snack: Lara bar- key lime, apple, green tea

Lunch: turkey on whole grain bread, lettuce, cranberry sauce, 1 t mayo, green tea

Snack: apple, green tea, 100 calories dk chocolate, handful of raisins, 2 walnuts

Dinner: vegetable barley soup, broccoli, brown rice, Chinese style omelet 2 eggs with sweet onion cooked in canola oil, few drops of sesame oil, soy sauce, 1/3 c organic grape juice

Exercise: 30 min run

KP1970

Paige,

Do you sweeten your green tea? I know that it is supposed to be very good for us...I have a few nutrition books and it is mentioned in all of them as being very high in antioxidants. I would like to drink some every day but I have only tried it once and didn't care for the taste at all! How do you sweeten yours, if you do?  

paige-allyson

Nope- I do not. It's an acquired taste. My stepfather is Japanese and I had my first exposure to green tea about 30 years ago or more, so I have semi-grown up with it. You can sweeten it a little if that helps. Adding lemon also helps boost the antioxidant availablity. Just don't let my mom catch you doing it Like a typical convert she judges you if you don't consume traditional Japanese foods in the "proper" way.

KP1970

Breakfast: Orange; 10 frozen cherries; 5 dates and a handful almonds

Lunch: 1/2 turkey/swiss sandwich on whole-wheat w/mustard; Sun Chips; apple; iced tea

P.M. Snack: Orange; Kashi crackers

Dinner: Whole wheat spinach lasagna; steamed broccoli; 1 slice whole wheat bread w/1 tsp. Smart Balance marg.; iced tea

Dessert: Ice cream sandwich :-O (I have had a huge sweet tooth lately...glad the ice cream sandwiches are gone as of tonight)!!

 

Exercise: Leslie Sansone 2-mile walk DVD (30 min.)

Ulla

hi girls,,

breakfast   coffee/milk cup+1 banana

snack         1 orange

lunch         300gm lasagne(vegt,light fat)+salad+1cup of black tea

snack         15 gm sugar free chocolat+1 cup black tea

Ulla

ps..my weight in the 1st of May=83.7Kg

my weight now 21 of May is ....=81 Kg

this means i have lost  6 pounds.in 3 weeks..

yyyoooooohhhhoooooooooooooooooooo

i started in 10th April my weight was 88 Kg

this mean that my total loss is 15.5 pounds in about 6 weeks

i feel good really

but my arm hurts ..its very uncomfortable..

uugghhhhhhh

love u sisters

Ulla

by the way i didnt acheive my goal yet,,i must be in my normal weight again 68 Kg which means i still need to lose 13Kg which is about 28.6 pounds to loss ..if i continued on this range i will be in my normal wt again at the beginning of september ..as we all know the weight loss become slower after we do lose,,

i will be very happy to be in my normal wt again

love u girls

KP1970

Ulla,

CONGRATS on the weight loss!! You should be very proud of yourself! I am trying to lose 5-7 lbs., to get back to my "pre-cancer" weight (I am 5'7 and 140...I'd like to weigh around 135) but no matter what I do, I can't get that scale to budge!! I am (trying) to eat well and I exercise almost every day, but I just can't get below 140, darn it -- oh well, if that's my biggest problem in life, that will be just fine LOL

paige-allyson

Yesterday 5/21

Breakfast- oatmeal, raisins, almond milk, coffee x1

Snack-Larabar, blueberries 1 c., 1/3 c lowfat yogurt (plain), 1/4 c. granola

Lunch- 1 can sardines, 3 pieces crisp bread, capers, lg salad- tomatoes, greens, onions, w/light dressing, 100 cal dk chocolate, coffee x 1

Snack- 1/2 c orange juice

Dinner- 1 small slice veggie pizza 

Exercise- day off other than running up and down the stairs- worked 12 hours at the office

paige-allyson

Ulla and Kim- It sometimes does get harder to lose the weight as you get closer to your goal. I have been stuck around the 127 mark for a few weeks. I am shorter than both of you I think- 5'4". I have lost about 23 pounds since just before diagnosis at this time last year. I know that for me to get unstuck what really works is to plan my meals the night before (at least) and stick to the plan NO MATTER WHAT. If I do this for a while the pounds will come off (and I won't have those not enough veggies days like the one I had yesterday. I find it is so easy to fool myself that I am eating as I should when really I am not.

I am going to set aside a little time to plan my meals this morning and then I will post what I am planning to eat as well as my planned exercise (swimming today- possibly a little run too).

Ulla

hi girls

thursady/22.May

breakfast   8am  coffee/milk cup

nothing till now  6pm

they removed the port from my other breast 2day,,i expected to be anasthetized locally but they gave me something IV that took me generally out of conciouse for about 1hr,,

i couldnt put anything in my mouth till now,,just a sip of orange juice at the hospital and thats it..

i dont feel like can eat anything,,may be i will have some white rice and cooked spinich later if i felt hungry(DH  made this for lunch he ate but i couldnt yet...)

love u sisters

KP1970

Breakfast: 3/4 c. old-fashioned oatmeal w/1% milk, raisins and wheat germ; orange

A.M. Snack: 1/2 c. cantaloupe

Lunch: 3 corn tortillas cut up into triangles and baked; refried beans/salsa; 6 dates; iced tea

P.M. snack: Small bowl frozen cherries; 3 Hershey dark choc. kisses :-O Kashi crackers, apple (help girls, I have a huge appetite lately)!!

Dinner: Spinach lasagna; one slice whole-wheat bread

Dessert: ---

I blew it before dinner I won't even say all that I ate, but I "lost it"/blew it. Well, tomorrow is a new day, right??  

 

Exercise: Leslie Sansone 4-mile walk DVD (55 min.)

KP1970

Ulla,

Are you still going through chemo? 

KP1970

Congrats on your weight loss, Paige...that's fantastic!

Great idea too, about planning meals...maybe I will try that! Thanks! 

KP1970

Breakfast: Strawberry smoothie (1 c. 1% milk, 2 tbsp. plain yogurt, 8 strawberries, ice, 1/4 tsp. sugar)

A.M. Snack: Larabar

Lunch: Bean and cheese quesadilla (homemade); 10 Sun Chips; 6 figs; iced tea

P.M. Snack: Handful almonds; 2 (!) oranges

Dinner: Baked chicken cordon bleu; steamed broccoli; brown rice

Dessert: 2 (homemade) oatmeal raisin cookies; 1 small bowl frozen cherries

 

Exercise: Leslie Sansone 2-mile walk DVD (30 min.) 

paige-allyson

Kim- wait till you read what I ate yesterday! I was really busy and I swam in the morning which made me insanely hungry. I didn't have the time I hoped to have for planning (going to do it today). Evidently I needed the extra food yesterday. I think among the sports that I do I burn major calories when I swim and get truly hungry to the point where if I don't eat extra I don't recover well. SO... Thursday May 22:

Breakfast: Oatmeal, raisins, almond milk, coffee w/orgainc milk

Exercise: swam 1/2 mile

Snack: 1 whole cantaloupe, 1 c blueberries, 1/3 c yogurt, 1/4 c granola

Lunch: grilled cheese, tomato, and onion sandwich on sprouted grain

bread, 1/2 a LARGE organic chocolate bar

Snack: 2 apples, Larabar, green tea

Dinner: huge bowl of whole wheat pasta, sheep milk romano cheese, 1 c + fresh tomato sauce with chicken sausage

Definitely some planning is in order. In addition to it helping to eliminate "irresponsible eating"  , it also makes life flow more smoothly knowing what's for dinner, etc., and it REALLY saves money and prevents wasting food. When I have done it before I've been amazed at how much of a difference it makes in the tidiness of the fridge and the cupboards. My daughter plans all her meals for the week just for practical reasons and she and her husband average about $50 a week on groceries- eating really well- organics and everything. She's a great cook which helps. Nice to have a child who inspires me!! In a couple of weeks the farmshare the we went in on together will be in full swing and the fresh local veggies will start pouring into the house. I am looking forward to this- especially the unlimited strawberries that will come in late Juneish.

paige-allyson

Ulla- Your post brought me back to how I felt after my surgery- which, I suddenly realize writing this, was exactly 1 year ago today. Glad THAT's over with! I couldn't eat for about 20 hours afterward, it was awful. Hope you are feeling better and congratulations on being rid of the port- must be a relief!

paige-allyson

Friday May 23

Breakfast: oatmeal, raisins almond milk, coffee w/ organic milk, 1 cup of organinc light grape juice

Lunch: whole wheat pasta, fresh tomato sauce with mushrooms and chicken sausage, lg salad of greens and cucumber, sheep milk romano cheese, Annie's light dressing

Snack: (planned) organic apple, 100 cal chocolate, green tea x 2, Larabar (unplanned- got really hungry when my husband insisted on going to look at baby pigmy goats before dinner- I was so hungry and glad I had the bar in my bag. The goats were very, very cute and friendly, like little dogs but with hooves.)

Dinner: (planned) stir fry with broccoli, cabbage, snow peas, carrot, etc. chicken breast, hoisin sauce, and brown rice

Exercise: 25 minute run

nowheregirl

Hi everyone,

Can I join too? Oh say yes pretty pleeeeze as I desperately want to lose some weight... well not some, my goal is to lose at least 22lbs by the same time next year. I had to take Decadron when I started Taxol in July of 2005 and since then, I've put on 22lbs. There was a number of times I tried to lose some extra pounds but no success. It's way too hard to lose weight if you've been on Tamoxifen (and I've been on Lupron shot too).

Anyhow, my yet another attempt started this past Monday. So far, I've lost 5.7lbs. Been trying to stay under 1500-1800kcal and avoiding as much carbohydrate as I can.

Friday (I'm like 12 hours ahead of you girls in the States)

Breakfast: 1 piece WW bread, low-fat cream cheese, 1 sliced low-fat ham

Lunch: omelet (2 eggs, 1/2 onion, 2 small green pepper, 2 small pieces low-fat bacon, curry powder), 1 piece WW bread, low-fat cream cheese

Snack: 3 small pieces bran biscuit

Dinner: Yogurt with crushed strawberries in it, 2 small pieces brown rice biscuit

Beverages: 2 cups coffee (with calorie/sugar-free sweetener and milk), 3 glasses Chinese green tea that is specifically manufactured to burn fat, 4 glasses pain water

Exercise: Commute to work by bike (approx. 2 miles each way)

4.6 miles walk after work

xo

Fumi

KP1970

Hi Fumi, and welcome!! Congratulations on the weight loss! I am currently on Tamoxifen (for the past 9 months), and I am having a heck of a time getting that scale to budge! Of course, my past two days eating hasn't helped, LOL

I would like to drop 5-7 lbs. We can encourage one another!! BTW, where do you live?  

paige-allyson

Fumi- I am totally thrilled that you decided to join us! I always have enjoyed your posts and I LOVE your godzilla avatar- every time I see it I smile. I don't fully understand this reaction since I have no special connection to him or any other sci-fi monsters . How lucky you can commute to work by bike. I wish I could do it every day but my work is about 11 miles from home. I may do it occasionally for an adventure this summer. My trip to work is very scenic, farms and back roads mostly so it would be nice.

Love and welcome- and love to you Kim and Ulla too! LOL I am feeling more expressive today, despite being a New Englander- FYI in this part of the country people are known for being reserved in expressing affection, even those of us who are secretly warm hearted by nature. Allyson

Ulla

hi sisters

u r so welcomed fumi,,plz join us in this happy loss trip!!!!!!!!!!

i feel lil bit better today..(dear kim i finished my chemo in 25th JAN but they took the port out yday,,i thought it will be done by local anasthesia but they injected me with something that anasthetized me generaly for 90 minutes,,)

the confusion is that wen i dont take the pain killers i feel good mentaly but in sever pain in the port area..and if i took the pain killers they make me feel soooo dizzy and heavy ..cant concentrate or move,,just sleeping..uuggghhhhh)

 ps..i am on tamox and zoladex inj too since 2 weeks..

i am losing weight and hope to stay so..my goal is to lose about 25 pounds in the next 4 months,,

FRIDAY 23/MAY

breakfast

frozen peices of all following fruits(3strawberies+4blueberries+4 blackberries+4very lil cubes of mango+6 hallons)all in the blender with 1 cup of semi-skimmed milk

lunch

grilled liver with white bread and grilled 2tomatoes and 2onions

1cup of black tea(u can guess that DH is in home and he was the bad one who made the lunch,,i know i will have a hard time in the next few days,,weekend!!!!!!!!with him)

snack

1cup of black tea

supper

nothing yet

love u sisters

ps ..fumi ,,i too loved to read ur posts and so happy that u r with us here..

why everyone say its hard to lose weight with tamox??is it right even if i tried to minimize my eating sooooo much??

i realy need to lose those darn kilos..

nowheregirl

Thanx for the warm welcome!

Kim, yep we can encourage one another, which is why I couldn't resist to be part of this group. We should keep motivating one another. I live in Japan where girls are supposed to be skinny, which really makes me look like a huge meatball.

Allyson, I too love your avatar. I am a cat lover (not only cats but all animals) and have two cats myself named Kiki & Toto.

I started commuting to work by bike in July of last year but had to quit it in August. I got terrible sweat rashes all over my middle area as there're no places at my work where I could change my shirt nor have a shower. I'm afraid I may have to quit it again when it gets hot and humid. Plus those stinky hot flashes make it worse. If that's the case, then I will have to do more exercise. A good friend of mine burned an AB jam and workout programs (20 minutes for each called Turbo Jam) on to a DVD so I am thinking to do them when it rains or I can't ride a bike.

Ulla, you look like a barbie doll in your avatar! I don't want to scare you but Zoladex is much worse than Tamoxifen in terms of weight gain. So be careful and you may want to work harder than you do now. Just keep watching your weight. The sooner you notice any gain, the easier you can lose it. It's hard to lose weight when you're on Tamoxifen or Zoladex because your ovaries produce almost no estrogen, your body looks for elsewhere to get needed estrogen from and stores whatever it can find in your belly fat. Fat cells in your body can produce estrogen, so your body works harder to convert calories into fat to increase estrogen levels. That's why almost every woman end up gaining weight when they are going through menopause.

Anyway, everyone have a great TGIF. We can do this together!

xo

Fumi

KP1970

Another animal lover here (especially dogs)

I asked my oncologist at my last check up about Tamoxifen and weight gain. He said that it can make it hard to *lose* weight, but he wasn't sure about weight gain (who knows???) Anyway, I am trying, trying to lose those 5-7 lbs., I know that doesn't sound like a lot, but I feel SO much better physically and mentally when I'm around 135 (I'm 5'7).

I am just so hungry all the time, darn it!! :-O 

Ulla

TY FUMI FOR UR NICE WORDS ABOUT MY AVATR,,THIS WAS 3MONTHS BE4 DX..SIGH

NOW I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF TAMOX AND ZOLADEX CAN COZ WEIGHT LOSS!!!!!!!AS I AM NAUSEATED AND HAVE THIS STOMACH PAIN WITH THE TAMOX,,AND FEEL LIKE I LOST MY APETTITE,,I HARDLY ATE THIS WHITE BREAD PEICE TODAY AT LUNCH WITH HUPPY..AND COULDNT EAT ANYTHING TILL NOW..

I JUST HAD A GREEN APPLE NOW WITH THE PILL TO MINIMIZE THE STOMACH PAIN..

ANYONE FEEL THE SAME..??

I HOPE IT WILL STILL LIKE SO...

LOVE U

paige-allyson

Ulla- I can't say about the tamox effects as far as the stomach upset because I take Femara plus the Lupron shot every 3 months (I get the long acting- it comes in 1 month and 3 month versions). Maybe check the hormonal treatment thread titled "Bottle o'tamoxifen" (or something like that? I find for stomach irritating medicine in general it helps to take it with a more starchy food and or milk, rather than fruit or vegetables. Maybe the anesthesia is having a lingering effect? I had one incident of having anesthesia last year prior to the breast cancer and it took me about 3 days to get my appetite back- so unusual for me since normally I am always hungry .

I agree with Fumi - I always think how beautiful you look in your avatar picture- very Swedish with the blonde hair too- LOL. Seriously, I thought you were a Scandanavian beauty until I learned you only recently moved there.

Fumi, Kim- I am an animal lover too- cats, dogs, and now pigmy goats after the adventure this afternoon.

KP1970

Ulla, I hope you are feeling better soon! And I agree with the other girls, you are very pretty!

Ulla

TY SISTERS,,

SATUREDAY 24MAY

BREAKFAST

NONE

LUNCH

2 GRILLED SPARE RIBS+100Gm GRILLED VEAL MEAT+3 GRILLED TOMATOES+1 GRILLED ONION+100Gm WHITE BREAD

BLACK TEA CUP

SNACK

1BANANA

BLACK TEA CUP

SUPPER

NONE 

KP1970

Breakfast: 3/4 c. oatmeal w/raisins and skim milk

A.M. Snack: 1/2 c. dried apples

Lunch: 4" Subway Turkey and swiss cheese w/mustard and lettuce/tomatoes on whole-wheat roll; baked chips; small bag of apples

P.M. Snack: Kashi multi-grain crackers; banana

Dinner: 2 small slices cheese pizza

Dessert: Blueberry smoothie (1/2 c. OJ, 1/2 c. frozen blueberries, 2 tbsp. vanilla yogurt, ice cubes) 

 

Exercise: does walking around Wal-Mart for an hour and a half count? ;-) (I take the weekends off from doing my walking DVD)...I try to take a walk outside when the weather is nice, but today it wasn't (and hasn't been all week)!

Ulla

hi girls

sunday 25may

breakfast

coffee/milk cup

lunch

2cup white rice+2cups cooked spinich with black eyed beans+1cup black tea

snack

1 orange

supper

none