Wednesday Weigh In

Yay for mostly good news from everyone

I am down 2 lbs from last week....more water loss from my last steroid dose I suspect.  I'm glad I found this place, I will be starting tamoxifen soon and I just read yesterday about how many people gain weight with it. Bleh.

I was so hoping with the end of the steroids things would start getting under control again.  I guess that means I'll have to up the exercise portion of my day.

I have to make myself on loseit.com. I eat well for a few days & then sabotage myself again.

Yay for those who lost weight! 

I need to get back to exercising!  The weather has been rainy and gloomy and I haven't been able to force myself to take advantage of limited exercise opportunities.  Tomorrow I will go for a 3-mile walk despite plantar fasciitis!  I will, I will.

Having a (routine) colonscopy Monday....so will be on the 'Really Yucky Weight Loss Plan' this weekend.

Ruth, a friend just had a colonoscopy and got some good advice from her nurse.  Start tapering toward a liquid diet a day early then it's not such a shock to your system when it gets flushed out from the prep.  She said it helped her feel less yucky.  Good luck!

My friend had her colonoscopy recently, and in the Prep instructions were a list of foods to avoid a few days before the procedure.

Without going into graphic detail, let's just say she had to tell her doctor to add BLACK LICORICE to the "forbidden" list!!!! 

It's not easy but make sure you finish it ALL.  I think I had left like half an inch or it in the jug, just could not get any more down and, believe it or not even after the hours I spent on the throne, my colon was not squeaky clean when doctor showed me the pictures. 

Good luck.

OK, I survived. Badger, I followed your nurse's advice & did mostly a liquid diet Saturday too & I think that helped.....made Sunday more of a nusance than anything else.

Wren44, are you speaking from experience?    You have 2 more days to work it back off.

Glad I was not the only one not able to finish.  Now even thinking I probably got down more than lots of others.  It was 2 or 3 years ago and I still want to puke just thinking about it.  Next time will find a doc who doesn't mind using the pills, even if I do the pills and only have to drink half the puky stuff.  Okay, I know, enough.

Night all.

I'm with you Blessings!



I've got two more pounds to lose to be back at my pre-holiday weight and I'm dragging my feet, and rear, all of me, in fact, as I attempt to get myself out the door and exercise! Gains come SO QUICKLY and losses seem to take forever. I feel the tummy pooch too. Since Femera any weight gain goes right to my tummy where as before weight gain was more evenly distributed all over my body. Also notice my "jiggly tummy" appears quickly if I fail to exercise.



Saw my MO yesterday and she wants me to lose this extra weight pronto. She usually doesn't say much because I'm going in the right direction, down most of my visits. But yesterday she told me to increase my cardio and improve my diet. I felt like a naughty child.



But, of course, I will do as she says. I want to lose the extra weight as well to lower my chances of recurrence as much as I possibly can. It's just that there are days when I feel like I might as well just stop eating! It takes so much more to lose weight since cancer treatment and being on meds like Femara!!! I already eat so many veggies, whole grains, fruits and the like that I have dihrerea some days.



Sorry - I just had to get my feelings out. OK, Enough ranting and whining! Now onward to moving more and accounting for every morsel that goes into my mouth again.



Reminder to self: I've lost 46 pounds, so I can lose the remainder of my excess pounds too by moving more and eating within my limits.



Thanks for Listening, Charlotte



P.S. I think I was generally somewhat discouraged by my MO visit yesterday because my CT scan showed radiation lung scarring has not improved and a second area has shown up. Also showed a bone spur on my spine. Breast Cancer and Femara...the gifts that keep on giving! Oh well, at least it's not cancer

I've had 2 colonoscopies and 2 sigmoidoscopies in the last year. The prep doesn't phase me anymore. I first went the year I turned 50 and they found stage 1 cancer on a polyp.  This last time there were no polyps and all 6 biopsies were benign. Whew. Back again in 6 months ~ that's going to be standard for the next few years.

Ladies, don't let the prep scare you...make sure you get your colonoscopy!

Blessings, LOL on your pool and scale adventures! I think pool exercises are great for weight loss. I would do more of them if it were more convenient to get to a pool.

I'm due for a colonoscopy, too, but I'm wondering if I need it at all, with all the PET/CTs one gets at Stage IV. Hmmmmm.

Down 400 grams!  Just a kilo more down and I'll be happy.

fmakj - does the mii really change size with your weight??  I think that's hysterical.  I have a wii, but just one game for it, and I have never looked into the fitness aspect of it.  congrats on your big loss this week!

165 this am - up .5 since last week - a weekend of partying, but back on SBD for a while to bring it back down to a manageable level.

We have a Wii that we just dusted off and started playing again.  When DS (15) weighed in, he had gained 50 lbs. in the 3 or so years since we played last.  Yes, his Mii seriously plumped out with the funniest noise! We both cracked up.  His Mii slimmed up agian when he changed his height from 5' to 5' 10".

As for weighing in, I'm a complete failure this week.  I think I'm a slug from the cold weather. Working out with Jillian though.