Detoxification diet

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Dortey
Dortey Member Posts: 20
edited June 2014 in Working on Your Fitness

Dear ladies!

This question is not related to breast cancer, or maybe it is. My mum decided to go on a detoxification diet in which she doesn't eat any solid food, just milk-shake every day three times. It is a speical diet programme. My mum was diganosed with BC in 2008. Er and Pr positivea dn HER2 negative. She is not overweight, but to tell the truth, she should lose some weight. That's why she decided to enter this diet. She started it on Friday.

Today, she felt exhausted and she had a headache (all day long). Can these symptomps be the signs of detoxification?
Just one more question: Do you think it is right to change lifestyle? I mean she never ate unhealthy junk food, but she seems to be a chocolate addict since here diagnosis. What do you ladies think about that?

Thank you very much
Dortey

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  • ThisTooShallPass
    ThisTooShallPass Member Posts: 101
    edited December 2011

    Hi,

     Sounds like your mom is not really doing detoxification but just a liquid diet for faster results. True detoxification usually requires a lot of planning and supplements of raw food and juicing. Clean eating.

    To answer your question, yes, she definately can have headaches but I would bet it's because she is not eating enough and many people have headache in responce to hunger.

    Hope she is doing well.

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  • Claire_in_Seattle
    Claire_in_Seattle Member Posts: 4,570
    edited December 2011

    I wouldn't worry about the chocolate unless she is eating pounds of the stuff daily.  In fact, some chocolate is a good thing.

    The diet is nuts.  Not sound for a couple of reasons.  The first is that much too limiting nutrition-wise.  The second is that this is a formula designed to backfire.  What happens is that the body thinks it is starving, so burns fewer calories.

    What works is the combination of moving more and eating less.  That way you increase the burn, and give it less fuel.

    I had that sort of headache yesterday afternoon.  I did a long bicycle ride and ate very little afterward.  Then I went to a fundraising auction at the church.  I had a headache and was grumpy.  I bought a plate of food in a hurry, and was just fine.

    Hope your mother starts eating real food soon. - Claire

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  • VeronicaX
    VeronicaX Member Posts: 35
    edited December 2011

    Dairy is not reccomended for bc. Is she having milk shakes or juices?

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  • Moderators
    Moderators Member Posts: 25,912
    edited December 2011

    Dortey, the main Breastcancer.org site has a section on Nutrition Resources that may help you and your Mum with useful information to plan a healthy diet and exercise plan. The BCO section Think Pink, Live Green focuses on reducing risk through diet and lifestyle too.

    Judith and the Mods

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