Newly DX'd I have a question.

I don't know what your oncologist would say, but I can share things I've been learning about 'detoxing'.  Several authors speak to this matter, and the most recent author I've read is Natalia Rose.  Hopefully, if you're going to lose weight, you'll be doing so with healthier food choices.  As these changes occur, toxins that reside in our tissues can be released.  Ideally, they will exit through the digestive tract, but if things aren't moving through at a sufficient rate, the toxins will reabsorb into the body. 

The importance of colon health is a recurring theme as I read more and more about alternative therapies and natural healing.  I didn't ever used to pay much attention to such matters.  A rather indelicate topic imo.  I didn't ever take arimidex, but I did take tamoxifen, and that darn pill made me constipated all the time until I started eating flaxseed for breakfast.  If you find arimidex is doing the same thing to you, I think you would benefit tremendously in all manner of ways to figure out what will keep things moving through.  It's not a good thing for anyone to get backed up, but I think it's especially important for us as cancer patients and survivors to be aware that it's a very deleterious state for us. 

Great input althea....poor elimination makes a toxic body.  I read this everywhere.  That is why to much dairy and meat is so hard on your stomach and colon. It takes way to long to digest these. Pamw1 I would try a diet leaving both of these out for the next few months. Than only add back in small amounts.

I was given a detox diet and did it after my first two years of treatment.  It was tough but I felt better within a few weeks. After two months I felt the best I had in years.  After two months I know longer had high blood pressure and cholesterol from chemo.  I had no fatigue either!

Flalady

PamW1 :  Wanted to give you my point of view.  Doctors do what they know, we do our (in my case neoadjunt chemo) chemo, surgery, radiation and take our anti-hormonals.  I felt like it was then up to me to get my weight off as like you I am overweight, I felt that was my job and I needed to do everthing in my control to battle BC.  The doctors did theirs now it was my turn to do mine.  I have tried various weight loss things, currently weight watchers and I am adding counting calories to be a bit mor diligent.  My cancer has a greater chance of recurrance, I don't plan on that happening (to be positive) but I want to do all I can do to make sure it doesn't happen.  As I am ER, PR and HER2 positive I am on both Herceptin and Arimidex.  Check with your doctor before doing a weight loss thing as mine said WEIGHT WATCHERS was OK but NOT some weird starvation type diet as it would mess up my blood tests.  Now it was next to impossible for me with steroids given while on chemo, they make me REALLY hungry.  He also said to avoid any estrogen promoting supplements, one I was taking was cordyceps which should never be used by women with fibrocyctic breast or those with breast cancer.  He also said not to use any antioxidants as they undue what chemo does.  (Chemo causes free radicals and anitoxidants get rid of free radicals) Always do your due diligence.  Have you been given a treatment plan yet?

So just my 2 cents!  Wishing you loads of good luck and health!  Hugs to you!

Susie

http://cancer.suite101.com/article.cfm/antioxidants_and_cancer_therapy

This pretty much somes it up....

Flalady