TN Ten Pounds Take-Off

Claire82

159 yayyy

MBJ

Well, I finally got brave enough to step back on the scale.  156.

MBJ

Heidi:  How did you find that picture of me to post on here, lol?

MonikaV

Hi girls, sorry I forgot to post Monday . I have remained the same. Ughhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Tuesday I started watching my carbs , maybe I will shed some pounds over the weekend. This is hard !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tnbcRuth

I'm posting 147.2 Yeah!!  but my reasons are self-serving.  I still have the weekend to go!!!!!!!!!!!  As a single, my social life is always out and about, sigh...and that involves food and drink.  Monday morning weigh in makes me feel guilty!  

So, 147.2 it is  

Fighter_34

Just ran on the treadmill for 30 minutes....hopefully something will change over the weekend. What?, hey I don't know but I am hoping for something.

Anonymous

Lower BMI, More Exercise May Mitigate Risk of Triple-Negative Breast Cancers

Elsevier Global Medical News. 2011 Mar 1, MG Sullivan

Triple-negative breast cancer, which is often associated with aggressive presentation, seems moderately related to body mass index and exercise status - factors that could be modified to reduce a woman's risk of developing the disease.The associations were "modest in magnitude and not statistically significant," lead author Amanda I. Phipps, Ph.D., and associates wrote in the March issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers, and Prevention. Only weight increase between age 35 and 50 years was significantly related with the tumor (hazard ratio [HR] 1.69 for a gain of more than 6 kg, compared with a gain of less than 2.5 kg)."However, given the potentially modifiable nature of these exposures, the results suggest that there may be ways postmenopausal women can impact their risks of both estrogen receptor-positive and triple-negative breast cancer," the authors said (Canc. Epidem. Biom. Prev. 2011;20:1-10 [doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-10-0974]).Neither hormone receptors nor HER2 are overexpressed in women with the triple-negative subtype. When compared with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer, triple-negative cancers are more likely to present with high tumor grade, elevated Ki-67 and p53 expression, and a poorer prognosis. Triple-negative tumors also are more likely to occur in black women and BRCA1 carriers, and to be diagnosed at younger ages.Dr. Phipps of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, and her coauthors extracted their data from the Women's Health Initiative. From the total cohort of 162,000 women, their final analysis consisted of 3,116 cases with complete tumor marker data, of which 307 (10%) were triple-negative and 2,610 (84%) were ER-positive. The rest were ER-negative, PR-negative, and HER2-positive (154 cases); ER-negative, PR-positive, and HER2-negative (31 cases); or ER-negative, PR-positive, and HER2-positive (14 cases).Triple-negative tumors were associated with body mass index, with the highest association (HR 1.35) occurring between the highest quartile (BMI 31 kg/m² or more) and the lowest quartile (less than 23.75 kg/m²). There was a similar association of BMI and ER-positive tumors compared with estrogen receptor-negative tumors (HR 1.39).Waist-hip ratio was not significantly associated with any of the cancer subtypes, but waist and hip circumferences were nonsignificantly associated with the risk of ER-positive tumors. For triple-negative tumors, there were modest but nonsignificant associations between waist circumference (HR 0.66) and hip circumference (HR 0.88). Women with increased BMI at age 50 (highest vs. lowest quartile) were most at risk for triple-negative breast cancer at age 50 (HR 1.93), but, again, this was not a significant finding.The authors also found a modest but, again, not significant inverse association between the triple-negative subtype and physical activity. The association between the highest tertile of exercise (strenuous vs. none; HR 0.77) was not significant. "For both subtypes, there was some suggestion that these modest associations were limited to moderate to low-intensity activity," the authors noted."Despite substantial molecular and clinical differences between triple-negative and ER-positive breast cancers, these subtypes of disease appear similar in their associations with baseline BMI and recreational physical activity," the authors wrote. The finding of a modest positive association between waist circumference and ER-positive tumors is in line with prior studies, probably because excess abdominal fat influences hormone levels."On the contrary, triple-negative breast cancers are hormone-receptor negative by definition, yet we observed a similar positive association between BMI and breast cancer risk for both subtypes, suggesting that nonhormonal factors may also play a role in mediating associations with this aspect of body size."There may be some biologic plausibility to this theory, they said. "In particular, obesity is associated with increased inflammation and with increased levels of insulin and insulin-like growth factors, which may impact breast cancer risk."The results of the study point out a possible benefit to lifestyle modifications, especially in light of the more aggressive nature of triple-negative breast cancers, the authors said: "The risk of triple-negative breast cancer was reduced, albeit not to the extent of statistical significance, among women who were physically active and among women with lower BMI."These factors were similarly associated with the lower risk of ER-positive breast cancer, suggesting that the protective effects of these exposures are not breast cancer-subtype-specific and that there may be lifestyle modifications that postmenopausal women can make to reduce their risk of triple-negative and ER-positive breast cancer."

Anonymous

Fighter.... 30 DAYS? Geesh... give yourself a medal!!!

MBJ

Fighter:  I am impressed!!!!

tracie23

heiditoo: I am 169 ... At the beginning of the week I was 166 and I have been exercising and eating right WTH .... I started back at Curves today and I am going to have them weigh and measure me on Monday . We will see. When I started this craziness I was 148...

Anonymous

OMG- I stepped on a different scale and I was 132! I like that scale! BUT--- just got back from Red Lobster where I was very bad, (today was hubby's b-day) sort of. Will do acid test tomorrow morning....

gillyone

I'm going up not down so not telling this week!

NavyMom

Holding at 172.  Worked very hard ALL week.  I skipped all snacking except for an apple or maybe a no fat yogurt instead of ice cream.  I worked out everyday except Tuesday.  Geez...I didn't expect to be down 10 lbs, but 1 lb would have at least given me some encouragement.  BUT.  I am not giving up.  I am sick and tired of lugging around this extra junkm in my trunk.  I will not give up.

Navy

tnbcRuth

navy- great attitude!  Your resolve helps me to stay with it too.  I'm up 3 lbs from Friday and i'm just not paying any attention to it.  Like you, I know I've eaten well and exercised as much as I can.  It Will Pay Off !!!!!!!!!

Fighter_34

30 minutes ladies!!! LOL 30 days I wish....

You ladies should KNOW I am dealing w/ Chemo brain.

Chemo DONE now it's time to fight to stay NED!!!!!
Diagnosis: 8/30/2010, IDC, 1cm, Stage I, Grade 3, 0/1 nodes, ER-/PR-, HER2-

Lynn18

I am still at 142, yuck.  I have been exercising more though.  Heidi, thanks for posting that study, that does give me some more motivation.

ericavw

148.2 Yey! I'm scraping away. Living on salads, fish, chicken, nuts, eggs, and water. Anddd my butt is killing from the gym yesterday. I WILL get to 140, dang it!

MBJ

I didn't weigh in this morning, but I just re-decided to cut out all pasta, potatoes, bread, sweets and alcohol (the last one is because I have surgery next Tuesday) so I have to lose weight-right?  This diet is so hard!  I went to a birthday party on Saturday night and after 3 hours I told my DH we have to go or I won't be able to resist temptation any more.  What a killjoy I've become.  Bleh!

tnbcRuth

MBJ-can you just take one bite and kill the longing?  Sometimes its not as good as you imagined and one bite is all it takes and then you can relax and resume being the life of the party!!

gillyone

I love how we can "re-decide" to do or not do things.

Anonymous

Well, I actually wore one of my "skinny" jeans this weekend. OK, so there were a few more bulges than when I was 122, but--- I got them on!

Now, if I could just finally be rid of all these sore muscles brought on by limping... oh, and it will be nice when I can finally kneel again. It's hard to clean litter boxes and weed gardens when you can't kneel down. Guess I'll just have to put off yard work a bit longer, though I did do some major poop pick-up in the paddocks today.

I have a lot of fence repair to do also.... reinforcing my post and rail with electric to keep the horses from leaning on the rails. You know that saying, "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence?" Horses invented it.

Sugar77

My scales seem to be stuck, too.  Once good thing...this chemo brain enables me to get lots of extra steps on my pedometer as I wander aimlessly back and forth through the supermarket. Even with my list (never needed one before chemo) I'm still going all over, back and forth to pick up missed items. We've been eating really well and I've been faithfully walking five nights a week and getting at least 10,000 steps in.  Tomorrow we're having pancakes with maple syrup, though.

MonikaV

Ok. The day after I posted last week I had a doctor appt. On their scale my weight was 160 WTH !!!!! Can my scale be messed up? It is old..... But on mine I was 151.5 lbs. So today I went to my ONC and in their scale I am 155 lbs. I can't believe my old scale was lying to me!!!!! So Heidi if you can please update .... I guess i will go with the doctor weight of 155.

Titan

Heidi..I'm still at or around 150..I don't like it..but I'm thinking that maybe this is the weight I should be at...I eat alot and exercise too...I guess as long as I'm not gaining any weight that this is OK

MBJ

tnbcRuth:  I have noooo willpower-zilch.  I literally said to my DH, we have to leave or I will eat/drink everything in site and I won't stop until I gain another 5 pounds, lol.  I just have to suck it up and try to remember what I am not supposed to be eating, which, with chemo brain, is not easy to do!

Sugar:  I get all of my exercise doing everything 10 x because I keep forgetting what I am doing, lol!  I wander in the grocery store even if I have a list, and the other day they moved everything and I was so lost. 

MBJ

Monika:  I have noticed a difference between dr's and my scale so I average it out. 

Anonymous

I spent three hours today fencing. The horse kind... putting electric tape up on my post and rail to keep the horses from leaning, rubbing and chewing on it. Bet you didn't know horses are like termites, did you? Man, was I sore when I came in--- and I've only done 1/2 of a paddock. I have five others left!

tracie23

mbj, you are so funny.... when I go to Walmart it takes me hours to get a few things, it is so busy and loud and the lights are bright and I can't concentrate on anything, heck I get lost in my own kitchen.... the other day my daughter wanted a yogurt and I found myself looking in the dryer...

MBJ

tracie:  LOL!!!!  That is me exactly!

GuyGirl

Do any of you guys feel like a yo-yo, I seem to keep gaining and losing the same 2-3 pounds.  I do good for 2 days and then go right back to eating poorly.  I just can't seem to get motivated.  I was 134.4 this morning, but I woke up hot again and couldn't get my rings on so I know I am retaining fluid and Monday is weigh in day here at work.  We have one more weigh in next week and in 8 weeks I only lost 3 pounds. It is all I can do to maintain, much less lose another pound.  I am hoping with it being Lent and not drinking any soda that will help.  I also gave up the nachos at my favorite Mexican place.  That is a huge sacrifice for me because they are the thing I love the most.  I need to buy some shorts for the summer but wanted to try to get down to 129, my pre-chemo weight.  I am only 5'3" so for me 3-4 pounds is a whole pants size.  I am just getting so tire of the muffin top, but if I go up a size my pants are to baggy.  I wish someone would wisk me away and give me a total body makover.  It's bad enough that my hair is not my hair anymore, but my body doesn't feel like my body anymore.