Wednesday Weigh In

Annie Lane, big hugs to you! Had an X-ray yesterday because of a sore area under my left arm (MX side) on the chest wall, and it was clear. Now waiting for a date for a bone scan. If that's clear, then MRI. So we wait together. Ate more bread than usual today - sure sign of stress. Sigh! Will hold it together.

Annie Lane,



So sorry you have to go through another core needle biopsy. I had four in the beginning,ugh. Hope you can distract yourself over the weekend.



Be easy on yourself if you do resort to stress eating. Waiting over the weekend for the procedure is very stressful.



Fingers crossed that it's tissue damage from the radiation. Sending good thoughts your way.



Hugs,

Peggy

Annie and Liefie, I will be hoping for and expecting good news for you both. Still I know the experience of waiting and worrying is not enjoyable nor very good for the waistline.



I was too optimistic to assume I would not gain weight last week when every second week past chemo I have eaten like a horse. So I gained three pounds. My appetite is more controlled the last two days so i hope next week will be better. I guess you really can't eat muffins and ice cream even though it seems all your body wants!

Liefie, yes, we will be waiting together Thanks everyone for the encouragement. Today I'm feeling much more peace about this. I know, thinking rationally, that it's much more likely my new calcifications are from scar tissue than cancer.

Silly me, yesterday, I had this idea that I would breeze in and out for my mammogram, head on to my dental appointment that was scheduled two hours later and then get back to work. What I hadn't wrapped my head around was that mammograms from here on out are never going to be like the pre-BC mammogram experience. I am a breast cancer patient now and I need to reckon with the fact that this is part of my identity from here on out even if I never have a recurrence. That's not so awful. It just takes some getting used to.

Anyway, I haven't been too bad with my eating. Hope I can focus on stress exercising instead of stress eating.

Went to my first Weight Watcher's meeting this morning since going back to weigh in as a returning prodigal last week and discovered another freebie that made me really happy. Even as a lifetime member, you used to have to pay to use their "E-Tools" online. Now as long as you weigh in at goal once a month, lifetime members get the E-Tools free. I had quit paying for them since we're on such a tight budget, but I've really missed having access. I've used Spark People, but I like the WW site better.

Down 100 grams. Yay for our baby steps, AnnieLane!

I am down 1.2lbs but up since yesterday so not that excited. Maybe it was the orange juice I don't normally drink. It sure tasted good though.

Up 1.5, but Aunt Flo made a surprise visit. And she brought chocolate chip cookies. She is not my bff.

Does anyone else get exceedingly hungry with exercise and have you found a solution? When I exercise I get really hungry for the next 18hours or so.



Shame on that Aunt Flo. I gained a pound just reading that.

Woo-hoo. Good news!

Yay, Annie!!!!! Yay, yay, yay!!!

Up 1 to 131. Need to send DH somewhere. He's a wonderful cook and I'm an enthusiastic eater. Last night he made fried squash blossoms.

And VirginiaB, welcome! Yep, for all of us, acheiving and maintaining a healthy weight is serious business now. So much more at stake than how we look in our jeans.

Hi AnnieLane, I am new to all of this, as of this summer when I got my dx, then surgery, and radiation. I am about to start on the hormonal therapy, Arimidex generic soon. I have the flu right now, and feel awful. 

However, I know I have to get on the weight loss/exercise bandwagon very soon.

It has all been slow and unhurried,from the time I had a suspious mammo, and ultrasound, to the core biopsy, going to two different far away cities for tests and exams, getting second opinion, traveling 4 hours from my home for surgery and later radiation. I am now waiting to start the hormonal therapy arimidex generic form. 

The time frame of it started on May 8, 2013 when I went for my yearly mammogram. I have always traveled 2 1/2 hrs from my home for my yearly checkups.  That was the first extreme scare. Then I had to wait and go back on May 30 to get the core biopsy, a three week wait. I had been doing so good at losing a lb or two a week, and was down to 216 from 230 six months before. After the May 30 core biopsy, I had to wait another week for results, then drive back 2 1/2 hours on June 25 to meet with surgeons and radiology drs, and genetic counselor, and get a long MRI. They messed up the MRI, and had to drive back the long way to get another MRI. 

At this point, I wanted a second opinion, so we set out (my dear husband and son) to a cancer center 4 hrs away from home. This is the surgeon I decided upon. Waited until July 10 for the surgery, then drove back a month later for followup with surgeon, then drove back on August 25 to do a week of exelerated radiation. Needless to say, a lot of anxiety, worry, and waiting and long car rides. I have succeeded in gaining all of my weight back in a 4 month time frame. While all this waiting and traveling was taking place, all I wanted to do was comfort myself with comfort foods, carbs, sweets all the time. 

Right now, I am not scheduled to have to make a 4 hr car ride to the dr until January for all the checkups. I am hoping to change me ways before then.

I plan to change my ways soon, and start being sensible. I used to do weight watchers meetings, then later on the online. I love it too. I just have to get myself committed and I am struggling with that. 

I am glad to have found this weigh-in site, and I do plan to join everyone soon. 

thanks for listening to my soundoff.

Rachel

Rachelannette, Comfort eating is appropriate at times and your journey certainly seems to be one of those times. Welcome to this thread; it's been a real help to me. Once your life settles down, you'll get back on track. Several people go to Weight Watchers, so you'll have company here if you go back.