IS THIS TOOOO MUCH????

I'm sure some of the other well-read ladies on here have an answer for you, but I don't have a clue, lol!  I just wanted to say good for you!

A good holisitic doc or naturopath would be able to tell you too. Although I do read up on a lot of alternative/complementary treatments I would never know where to begin or what things would be right to take with my physiology, so I see a naturopath.  Now that I'm through with most of the treatment he's going to do hair analysis and hormone and gut testing and come up with a supplement and dietary program specifically for me and what I'm deficient in. Might be something you want to look into if you have one around you.  Good luck!

Hi Agelsabove,

I am on pretty much the same schedule. I do take a few other supplements. I have also completely eliminated all animal protein (meat, butter, dairy, eggs etc) alcohol and sugar. I have 1 piece of fruit a a day is all the sugar I eat. I know people think I am insane, but I am doing what I feel I need to do right now. My oncologist thinks I have lost my mind. She says that none of this matters, I will either get a recurring cancer or not.  It makes me feel like I am doing something though!

Take Care! 

For breakfast I start out with a wheat grass, alfalfa grass, algae, spirulina comb drink. That has replaced my morning coffee. Then I have oats or Ezekial bread with hummus and sliced tomatoes and avocados. Sounds weird for breakfast, but it is good. Sometimes I have cooked millet for breakfast. It is different, but with some cinnamon, and almond milk it is okay. For lunch I almost always have a huge salad with lots of cabbage, spinach and other veggies. My dressing is always flax seed oil and Bragg's unfiltered organic apple cider vinegar (good stuff). Dinner is tricky because I try to keep it interesting for my husband (I always cook something else for my son). Anyhow, lots of beans and lentils. Lots of brown rice with sauteed vegetables. Have you tried the Ezekial sprouted tortilla wraps? They are great. I make them for lunch sometimes with hummus and veggies or for dinner with brown rice, black beans, veggies and salsa. I usually make some crazy juice concoction at least once during the day (sometimes twice) that consists of kale, spinach, beets, tomato, parsley, carrot and celery. I also eat lots of raw almonds and raw pumpkin seeds on my salads.

I also have eliminated all body care products that have any junk in them. Burt's Bees products are very clean. Their lotion, shampoo, conditioner is all great. I won't even paint my nails anymore. I have also cleaned out all chemical cleaning products. I only use white vinegar, baking soda and lemons to clean.  

Don't beat yourself up about the lack of exercising. I am 5 months out from my last chemo and just getting pretty regular again. 

A great book to read is the PH Miracle by Robert Young.

Keep doing what you are doing! 

Take Care!

Alfalfa grass??? Really?? I will read right now.

Thanks 

Hi Julia,

Thanks for the info. on alfalfa sprouts. I know what you mean about oncologists. I was thinking this morning about mine, and how she tells me I am crazy for eating the way I do and taking supplements, and I was chuckling because while I was going through chemo she did not want me to take any antioxidants because her words "they are so powerful and work so well, they may interfere with chemo". But, now when I am trying to be as healthy as I possibly can through nutrition, it is a waste of my time. I always wonder what she would be doing if she had cancer.

Take Care,

Julia: you eat millet! Me too! all kinds of millet-products (millet couscous, millet poridge, you name them....). Millet is now becoming known for its cancer-fighting properties, isn't that remarkable? (considering that this cereal had been relagated to bird-food in most developed countries, and was only used in Asia and Africa)

I Guess when they find out that we are eating millet, some of them will go ballistic over the detrimental aspects of our millet-eating habits.............................

Not to be a drag but I don't think flax seed is good for er+ gals! (phytoestrogen). A good homeopath is worth his/hers weight in gold! Be well, Valerie

Dear Angelsabove,

Hon, I wish I could give you a big hug!  What I hear (and I may be wrong!) is that you are desperate to do what you can do to give yourself the best chance to remain cancer free.  You may be grasping at straws, or you may be doing exactly the right thing.  Or what you are doing may be irrelevant or ineffective and you may recur.  We just don't have the science to say for sure.  Experience tells us that wonderful exercisers and eaters have gotten BC anyway, while people like me (overweight meat and sugar eaters) are still cancer-free after almost 7 years. For any given individual there just is no way to guarantee that they will recur or that they will stay NED.

Eating healthily is a good thing.  (I wish that I could do it consistently!)  I think that if you are asking "is this too much", then your gut instinct is telling you "yeah, you're probably going overboard a bit".  So maybe you will adjust your diet a bit down the road.  But, you know, I think you should feel free to go overboard or wig out in some way.  It's okay in these circumstances.  I'm a big fan of doing whatever you need to do to feel more in control as a cancer patient.  For some, it's more Xanax or silly movies.  For others, it's prayer or exercise or fanatically sticking to a healthy diet.  Your coping mechanisms are your friends as long as they aren't hurting others or keeping you from following your doctor's treatment plan.

As you approach the end of your active treatment, you may feel anxious about leaving it.  This is very common here on the discussion boards and you are not the only one to feel that way.  Just like when you first take the training wheels off your bike, it is scary to ride alone.  But you will learn to feel confident as you get more time under your belt, and more experience with moving out of treatment.  You are almost at the end of a very long dark tunnel and I congratulate you! 

Hang in there.  This disease marks us forever.  How it leaves its mark mentally and emotionally is partially our own choice.  

Good luck!

Hope M.