MIDDLE-AGED WOMEN 40-60ish

Nice article!!  I think you look fab.  Wish I could be there to sample some of your bakery items.  I like the fact that the money actually helps those in treatment!  Thanks!

Dinarose you look good,  I was trying to find out more info about the Zumba instructor in your local paper

Charlotte

Great article Dianarose.  I like how you got to put in the remarks about pinkwashing!!! And I agree-I think you look fine & dandy!

My newest granddaughter, Lydia Grace. She is 11 weeks old. She is so good. Eats, smiles, and sleeps. I had her and my 2 yr old granddaughter this afternoon while my daughter did some things. I will admit I am tired now. I will be so sad when they go back to NC on Sunday.

Dianarose, I think you look great. Wouldn't have known you were on steroids by looking at your picture. Pastry chef? That's awesome. And you are skinny to boot! I would be in trouble if I was a pastry chef.



New people! Yay. Bumbs me up in seniority by two. Welcome! Eph made me a fabulous Cheetos cake when I came to hang out here.

Decency? Oh I love autocorrect.....supposed to say "defending the Cheetos"

Awww Dianarose, Lydia is so adorable!

Beckers, i am a Cheeto fanatic! My daughter catches me with my orange fingers often

Happy hour sounds good. Enjoying a nice iced sweet tea vodka with lemonade. Yum It's like summer in a glass.

Dianarose, what a wonderful article about your baking & fundraising. You look fabulous, sista! All those ribbons, wow! Without asking you to divulge your recipe (only if you want to, that is!), what is in a cream puff pie? Anything like a cream puff? And your new little granddaughter is precious.  

Thanks Momine. I'm carrying 50# extra, >95% ER +, have fatty, enlarged liver, seeing dietician this week and just need to get serious. BC is a wakeup call. Started Tamoxifen last week. Not sure what it dies to cholesterol and all. I just have to try.

Beckers, I can highly recommend myfitnesspal-dot-com for keeping track of nutrition and exercise. 

Also, the diet I adopted during chemo apparently is very efficient at getting you to lose weight. Basically I tried to eat as many veggies as possible, aiming for 8-10 servings a day. To achieve that, it is easiest to eat the veggies raw (they take more room that way). I think you will find that if you eat a large helping of veggies at both lunch and dinner, your appetite for the rest of the food spectrum will fairly quickly get smaller.

Cabbage or bok choy based salad is good and filling, as is tomato salad. I also keep canned artichoke hearts around to add to salads, and you can add a bit of cooked chicken as well if you like. Use olive oil or yogurt as  a base for dressing and skip those questionable bottled ones from the market.

The other thing I did was to eliminate all white starch and almost all sweets. This was tricky at first, but once you get used to it, it really is not half bad. I do eat carbs, but things like sweet potato, whole grain bread (not the squishy kind from the supermarket, from a crunchy-granola place), quinoa, lentils etc. This also majorly ups your fiber intake, which is a good thing for all kinds of reasons, including getting rid of excess estrogen. I do eat a sweet once in a while, but save it for when it is really worth it, like my southern girlfriend's homemade lemon-meringue pie or some really good chocolate.

If I make pancakes or other baked things, I make them with oats and buckwheat flour (lower glycemic index than wheat).

You should be able to improve your QOL by a huge amount if you can get your weight down some.

Are you able to exercise at all?

Elimar, I did not mean to imply that 2 drinks a week is totally safe or even a great idea, but all the articles I saw on this, including the one you posted, recommended keeping alcohol to 3 drinks or less a week, IF you are not ready to give it up completely.

I imagine that for everyone, it is a matter of weighing risk, QOL and various other factors. I will do a fair amount, and I have changed my diet and general lifestyle quite a bit, but I also need to feel normal or whatever you want to call it.

As for the list of foods, I don't know if it is updated, nor do I know how seriously one should take it. But I do check it every so often and read what research it has for any given food.

I don't drink often, but really wanted one last night. So... :-)

Beckers, Portland is so beautiful. I highly recommend the waterfall loop in the gorge. Dinner at Salty's on the Columbia.

Thanks for the food link Momine. I will be looking into that. These 20 chemo pounds are driving me nuts.

Here's to a great weekend!

Thank you Momine for the list of foods and fitness information!!!!



Thank you too JRyan for Portland info. My son is thriving there....he just loves it. That does a Mom's heart good.



Welcome tab55. This IS a fun place to hang out.



Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend.