TN Ten Pounds Take-Off

Gals - I thought it was not a good idea to weigh yourself every day as we have natural ups and downs. So I am only going to weigh in once a week on Monday mornings and that is the weight I will check in with. However, that being said, I haven't made much of an effort yet. Time to get serious. And I can't give up carbs - they are my favorite food group. I'll take carbs over protein any day

I was pretty good today...started with a blueberry smoothy again. My family loves pasta so I'm using the whole grain variety all the time now. Tonight I made stuffed shells but the filling was lower fat (sauteed onion, garlic, mushrooms and wilted baby spinach with modest amount of low fat ricotta and mozzerella). At my house, I have to balance vegetables and low fat with some cheese so my family doesn't realize what they are getting...lol  Just finished tonight's walk and my pedometer is 11,334. 

no - lost a ton

dlcw: On the DDAC didn't gaine a pound. I coudn't taste the food so didn't feel like eating that much. But now I'm doing the 12 weekly Taxol, can taste my food and gained about 10 pounds since. I have 2 Taxol to go. So I too am watching what I eat since monday and wishing to loose some weight, or at leat not gain anymore for the rest of the treatment!

Here is the link for recipes from this site for those who jusrt want cooking suggestions:

http://www.perriconemd.com/category/start+fresh!/recipes.do?nType=2

Glad to found us MBJ!

If you check this link, you'll find a lot of really tasty and healthy recipes by one of my favourite cookbook authors here in Canada...Rose Reisman.  I have a few of her cookbooks and my family really likes these receipes.

http://www.artoflivingwell.ca/recipes

I gained 22 lbs.  Still have it too. 

Walked 2.5 miles this morning

Navy

HeidiToo:  I am 51 and feel as if I am 95 since chemo, lol.  I am not retired but I cannot imagine going back to the full speed ahead I was prior to BC.  There isn't any way I could operate like that nor do I want to.  Brain doesn't work, body doesn't work.  I think it's more realistic to give us at least a 3 month window.  For me it's not necessarily just about losing weight but getting healthier all around.  Excercise, supplements, eating better, making less stressful choices, learning to say no.  I feel like food is a good place to start since I have no will power if sweets are offered or put in front of me.  None, whatsoever. Zilch. Nadda.

Amen to that Sugar!

I know lots of us are doing the diet thing but I do want to share an excerpt:

Intensive fruit-and-vegetable intervention didn't make a huge difference for reducing risk of recurrence in any type of breast cancer.[This result] may, on the surface, seem discouraging. But more research has been published since then. In 2007, a study was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/2 5/17/2345] that was really encouraging for women with all types of breast cancer. While the very intensive fruit-and-vegetable intervention alone didn't seem to help, this [new] research showed that women who had a moderately high intake of fruits and vegetables - in other words, at least five servings a day of fruits and vegetables - coupledwith 30 to 40 minutes of moderate-intensity activity a day, six days a week, had about a 50 percent reduced risk of recurrence.

The exciting thing about this [finding] is that the reduced risk of recurrence held across all typesof weight categories. Obese women, or overweight women, [had a reduced risk of recurrence] if they ate the five servings of fruits and vegetables a day and got exercise, even if they didn't lose a pound. In a way this [finding] is encouraging, that you don't need to "go crazy," so to speak, and focus only on eating nothing but carrots and celery. It turns out that moderate diet changes along with moderate regular physical activity seemed to be verybeneficial for women with a history of breast cancer.The takeaway message is that we need to focus on a low-fat diet, we need to focus on getting in a lot of healthy foods, but we don't need to beat ourselves up and struggle to get in 15 servings of fruits and vegetables a day. We also need to get regular physical activity. This is probably really important for triple-negative breast cancer because,as Dr. Harris mentioned, we're now seeing research looking at insulin as a potential, important way in which we might be able to help treat and manage TN breast cancer.

It's muscle weight

I know that we are all trying to lose a little  wieght, but it's encouraging to hear that cutting out the fat, adding vegis and excercise is the best thing we can do for us TN's and losing the weight is not the most important thing!  I'm gonna go with muscle weight

Oh yeah.  I also refuse to weigh myself or to be weighed.  When a doctor insists on it, I get on the scale backwards and tell them not to tell me.  I know when I lose weight by the fit of my clothes.  I'm one of those perverse people who would be so totally bummed out by hearing the number that instead of being motivated to lose weight, I would go into some kind of depression and eat more!

Sorry for the intrusion.  I picked up this thread from the active topics and didn't realize it was for triple negatives until I left the forum and played back the "TN".  As I am not triple negative, I am not really used to seeing the initials.  Why I always think of Tennessee is beyond me.  But I do.  Anyway sorry.

Don't worry about it Trisha!  You are welcome to join us in our attempt to lose weight!  I think I like Tennessee better than triple negative anyway....

Jenn..sorry about the Nola lose today...I have to admit that I was a little surprised...I've always liked Seattle..but not thrilled with their new coach

I will weigh myself on Monday and report in

HeidiToo:  Oh to be able to have a fireplace that works!  I envy you yours especially since California has been unusually cold this year.  I know, the 50's isn't cold but it's so rare that we experience anything lower then the 60's, lol!

My DH and I are still catfching up with people we missed during the holidays.  We got taken out to dinner Fridary night and I had a healthy salad but I ordered a rib eye steak and it was full of fat that I couldn't see because of the preparation and it's not like you can just spit out food while eating out.  I was pretty good about not eating most of the french fries it came with though.,  Then I succumed to the chocolate lava cake with pecan ice cream and let's just say their wasn't anything low fat about our meal.  Last night we went for sushi which wasn't fat at all and we took the train which required a really long walk so I guess we made up for it.  No willpower whatsoever so it's great to have you all here for support.

I went to USC Hospital's guidelines for a low fat diet which is what us TN's are supposed to be on, and these are the guidelines for keeping our fat intake below 50 grams"

http://www.uscuniversityhospital.org/condition/document/196199