Today my good food choice was...

Gina-I think you made a wise choce going to McD's during chemoMy son always wants to go there (mainly for the toys) and I always struggle with what I should eat.  Usually just get the grilled chicken sandwich.  Is the grilled chicken processed, I wonder?

I found a new way to make my usual oatmeal.  Put a packet in microwave with water and a spoonful of peanut butter, microwave 1 1/2 minutes, then mix and add soy milk, blueberries, and chia seeds.  Delicious and full of nutrients!

Had black bean and rice wrap yesterday for lunch, homemade organic chicken noodle soup for dinner with tons of carrots and celery  (can you tell it is cold here in Buffalo with all the soup I've been eating?)  This morning, my new oatmeal concoction and right now I am drinking an Orgain nutritional shake.  Probably salad for lunch.  I've had a very social week-out to lunch almost every day.  Tough life

Congrats Susan!  May it be the first of many, many cancerversaries.

Does anyone know how many grams of sugar is considered "OK" for survivors?  I can't seem to put my hands on a number.  Now that "MyFitnessPal" is tracking sugars I realize how many grams are hidden in seemingly innocent foods.  I go over almost every single day. I think it's because the program doesn't differentiate between high and low glycemic items (counts fruit the same as table sugar.)   

Sab, I use the American Diabetes Society for guidance. They have good lists of the carb content of various foods, as well as sample menus and other stuff.

As far as I am concerned, sugar is gone, period. By that I mean actual table sugar, in all its forms. I will still have a few bites of a cake or sweet on special occasions, but for every day, I have simply cut it out. It can be a bit challenging. I do love maple syrup and honey, so may keep the occasional spoonful of either. I also make an exception for one square of dark chocolate once in a while.

As for non-sugar carbs, my idea is to cut out, as far as I am able, all "white" carbs. So, no potatoes, white rice, white bread or pasta. I am trying to learn to eyeball the carbs and stay within the recommendations of the Diabetes Society. I am also trying to stick with "good" carbs, i.e. fruit, sweet potatoes, wholegrain bread, quinoa, brown rice etc.

Are you kidding me, everyone on the east coast hates the Giants! Well except New Yorkers. And I am from Philly so I love David Akers. I was very disappointed too.



Cheerios for breakfast. Boring! But I bought some fat free Greek yogurt and I am going to have that and a little leftover roasted chicken for lunch. Yum! I am going out for pizza for dinner with some old friends, I'll keep it to one slice. I hope.

Morning everyone

Had an orange for breakfast and a large bowl of butternut squash soup for lunch.  Delish!  Not sure what we will have for dinner.  I might be taking the kids out for crepes tonight for dinner after my daughter's violin lesson.   If we do, I will get the veggie crepes with whole wheat batter.

We were just complaining about this on another thread. It is very expensive to eat healthy. It's so much cheaper to eat fatty stuff. sigh, should be the other way around.

Yikes! What an idiotic comment!

Holy crap, what has 30 grams of protein???

Had black drum fillet for dinner in the george forman grill with asparagus.  Then sauteed mushrooms, onions, thyme, chard, and spinach.  I think I'll go back to talapia.  The drum was a little more oily.... 

Hi everyone.  May I join you?  I am very confused as what to eat.  I have been on Atkins diet for the last 8 years, eating lots of meats and low carb veggies and no sugar.  Though my breast cancer was quite large it had not spread, margins clear, ect.  The lump was there 25 years so we don't really know how long the cancer was in there.  I felt the sugar free Atkins diet helped me and it did take off 100 pounds.  However, now I know to avoid red meat and pork (though I question why I couldn't have red meat, grass fed and hormone free).  I cannot eat pasta and such without gaining weight.  I eat little fruit, but some, as it turns to sugar, natural or not.  Then there is the no diary rule...  What's left for a person like me?  Wild caught seafood, maybe with organic whole wheat flour, light coating and pan fried in olive oil, organic chicken and low carb veggies.  I am using some organic butter, uncured hormone free turkey bacon and such but I feel limited.  I also gave in to organic cream in my coffee.  Anything low fat has added sugar it seems.  All bread has some sugar, whole grain or not.  Salads just aren't the same without Marie's Blue Cheese Dressing, though it is sugar free. 

My Integrative Doctor said all organic Paleo diet would be OK but that is a meat based diet so...  I am confused.  What's a gal to do?

Agree with you there, Kay.  100 pounds is amazing, Circles!  I don't eat red meat normally, but if I do, it is grass fed all the way.  I am eating more beans as well.  And I do love my fish!  Right now, since my weight seems to be stuck, I am eating salads and protein shakes until it starts coming off again.  I'm doing lots of exercise so probably building muscle in the process.  Blueberry-strawberry-chia seed shake for breakfast and will be having chicken and spinach/mixed greens with feta and greek dressing for lunch.

Circles-have you tried the Dukan diet?  It is high protein, low carb, but low fat as well.  He has a website-you can Google.  Welcome!

Welcome, Maureen too!

Susan

Hi Circles, I did a vegan diet for about 8 months, didn't lose a pound....I need to lose 100....but I didn't gain weight, and all my digestive issues I ever had disappeared.  I also haven't gotten a cold, or flu, or allergies....

I have to admit I don't understand the biology of what the oncology nutritionist told me, but she said the plant based diet strengthens the cells.  She said cancer is a rapid growth of cells, and her example was how quickly a calf grows to a cow.  Its cells want to grow and eating beef tells our cells to grow rapidly as well.

I am sooooo not a science person, and she did explain in science detail the molecular reasoning - straight over my head - so I heard don't eat animals and eat plants to keep cancer away.  I know that is so not correct, but my immune system is better than it ever has been.  I thought for a while that the steroids must still be in my system, so I asked my family doctor.  She said the colds and flu back door us when our cells are busy doing other things, and I've strengthened mine.

I have incorporated fish back into my diet as it no carbs and high protein.  I also add chia seed to my cheerios and almond milk for an extra protein punch.  I have seen in health stores vegan protein drinks, but they are probably pumped with sugar too.  I started to read the Belly Fat Diet book.  It's based on 120 carbs a day.  Suprisingly I was using up all my carb and sugar count when I was juicing for breakfast with carrots.

The one thing I haven't done is exercise....somehow I bet that's my ticket to loosing weight.... 

So today for lunch I had low fat mayo tuna over a leafy green salad with mushrooms, grape tomatoes, and cucumber slices with unsweet mint green tea. 

I find that there are so many healthy recommendations, that I can gain weight on trying too hard to get it all in.  If I go over 1300 calories, I gain, as I am only 5'2".  I have 10 lbs to get off to be at the recommended BMI.  I bought chia powder to put in my steel oats that Dr. Oz recommended.  I bought organic fat free milk.  I bought 85% and 71% chocolate, organic green tea, organic coacoa, salmon, balsamic vinagar, lots of greens and fruits, all organic to juice.  My DH is diabetic, so we have to stop all sugar.  Getting older is not a picnic!  It's a pill festival!  We have more bottles of vitamins and drugs lined up, it's rediculus.  I am ranting, now...sorrry.  Oh, my good food choice...Cooked steel oats!  Yummy;0)

And hello to Maureen too! Yes, we love ideas.

Banba, good luck with radiation tomorrow! 

SAB:  I feel the same way.  The healthier I eat as far as whole foods found in nature etc.  the better I feel and it seems the more weight comes off in the process.  I really don't think protein is that important for weight loss.  I really think it depends on the person to be honest.  I do better with whole grains, fruits, and veggies.

Chicken, Brussels sprouts and a salad for dinner. Delish.