well, i drink white wine....chardonnay to be exact,  it has been all most 9 years,,,,this coming

feb.so  far so good.  i just live each day....that is about it.  i don;'t get too far ahead of myself...and i don;'t look back.  my body has recovered from surgery,,,chemo , rads and arimidex.  the arimidex was the worst actually,  i wish i could help more then i do here on these posts...i come back because i remember clearly feeling so scared...and worried about relapse.  but now, i don't .  i think each one of us has to figure this all out...my best advice is don't get caught up in stats...or other people's experiences...just do your own life and do one day at a time. enjoy your pleasures...be grateful for the treatment you got....it is the best that is out there at this time.  that is all i know.  be in the moment. 

 most important...exercise.  walk..run..cycle. move your body; let the healthy cells know you are taking care of them, 

take good care

d

Okay my reply might be silly but I used to love tofu. I would fish it out and eat it with gusto with my miso soup, chomp on it with my pad thai. But since my diagnosis even though there really is no direct scientific evidence linking it to bc and the dietician that I saw just said to eat it in moderation, I find no pleasure in eating it anymore! Hubby and I went to a japanese restaurant and I tried to eat the little floating bits in the miso soup and I couldn't finish it! I felt I was eating cancer and just couldn't.

Faithful......

Hear you.  I just polished off half a rack of lamb, roasted veggies, spinach.......with wine.

I don't think you are unreasonable about wanting to live.  Living is about more than eating food to exist.  Have the best meal ever.  With wine.

Otherwise, you will be wondering about what's the point?

The studies on wine have been done on women pre hormonal therapy.  We don't know for those of us who are doing AIs or Tamoxifen.  Drink up and relax.

Also, you don't want to survive BC, only to have heart disease.  Drink up!!!  And ditch the guilt.  Much worse for you than eating the wrong stuff.

This is about a wonderful life going forward. Congrats on all your hard work!!!! - Claire

There was some study that said alcohol only became a factor in reoccurance if you had more than three glasses a week. So the increased risk for drinking none compared to the risk of drinking 3 glasses a week were the same.

So, I drink weekends only now. I used to drink every day, but now I have adjusted to three-ish a week.And, like bugs says, I do it 100% guilt free!

I hear you though - sometimes I just want to sit down and eat a plate of bacon and hotdogs! He he. 

I agree...I used to obsess over everything I put into my mouth.  I have definitely backslid over the holidays, but the cancer nutritionist I saw said that two glasses of wine a week of perfectly fine.

Now, don't go drinking Jack Daniels for breakfast, but other than that, it's AOK.

Bacon and Hotdogs?  ewwwwwwww. jk, I realize it was metaphoric.  Unless you are chasing it with slugs of wine out of the bottle

All things in moderation, right?

claire - half a rack of lamb sounds so good right now. yummy.

Before my Dx I usually had a glass (or two) of wine, a beer, or a bourbon close to every day.   Then suddenly felt as though I shouldn't have any, and didn't end up enjoying it at all because of that.   Then I saw this on another website, and decided it was OK to have a glass of wine every other day or so, if I had a folic acid pill afterward.

http://www.breastcancer.org/tips/nutrition/ask_expert/2006_11/question_13.jsp

It's help me ENJOY my glass of wine now, at least the two or three I allow myself a week.   I don't know if this is actually cancelling out the alcohol, but it works for me! 

I had also read somewhere else that researchers thought the problem with alcohol had to do with how alcohol was metabolized with folic acid in the liver, so there may be something to this.

This disease has messed up our lives enough, so drink wine if you want to - I certainly am, although not as much as I used to.

The secret of happpiness is: Everything in moderation - including moderation!

My problem is we are retired and there are five Saturday nights in a week, so that makes it a little tough.  We are out to dinner way to much or at parties, but....................I also fill my week with all kinds of physical exercise and I believe that balances some of the risk factors.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

After my discharge I had no wine for at least 5 months. I could not, as I thought I was feeding the cancer. I have had a couple of glasses of wine over the holidays and without too much guilt. I think I will have it once in a while when going out for dinner or something like that. When you have your glass of wine enjoy and relax.

I have a small glass of white while I'm cooking dinner and at least 1, ocassionally 2 glasses of red with  dinner almost every night.

Sometimes I have an alcohol free day. I love cooking but really don't enjoy it as much if I'm not having a sip every now and then!

For the first 6 months after dx I was pretty worried about everything I ate or drank . After that I just went back to normal and have enjoyed over 18 years of cooking, entertaining and yes drinking more or less what I like!

 jezza