I am still eating unhealthy food and feeling bad!

stephilosophy,

Congrats on losing 10 lbs, this is fabulous. Perfection is not expected, you may be a little too hard on yourself, that's my view.I'd just make sure to keep that ten lb weight off.

Best wishes.

As long as you eat mostly good stuff, indulging yourself here and there is fine. Is not that the "unhealthy" food Is truly unhealthy. It's rather the fact that by filling ourselves with that food, we don't get enough of the nutrients available only in healthy food.

My question is why? Why are you punishing yourself. It doesn't sound like an unreasonable diet. It is not why you got cancer so try your best and be happy and enjoy.

stephilosphy,

If you really want a method for finding meat repulsive, here is a secret weapon: just go online and find pictorial evidence of the unspeakably appalling ways those mammals and birds are treated.

Even the so called "grass fed beef" (and since when can beef, which is dead body parts, eat anything), we don't know what they go thru, and if anything, there may be even less quality/ethics control on how they are treated, compared to large factory farms.

Bon appetit for wholesome foods

Nas, ditto for me but I was 53. Stressful relationship with my husband was bad for years. Much better now.

It can also be the other way around. Cancer is there, stretching all physical resources, which in turn makes someone being easily stressed out. At least this is how it was for me.

Oxygen, sorry, but I must disagree here. Yes to that part where you say, cattle and birds are often kept in appaling conditions. And I would add - by buying such meat, people express their consent to those conditions.

BUT everybody can choose what they buy and eat. I am a meat eater, meaning I like to eat meat. When I don't have meat, I crave eggs. Maybe I just need the protein, I don't know. We eat veal, lamb, rabbits and chicken - all of which has spent a nice life nearby. The cows with their young I see every day when I look out of my window. They know nothing but mother's milk and grass from a very, very large mountain pasture. The sheep are kept similarly by a family we know. They give us the lamb, we give them our honey. Rabbits are from our neighbour. chicken from an organic farm nearby. (Eggs I get from my brother) I believe everybody can choose to renounce the meet that has been kept in atrocious conditions. Unfortunately we are an inland country, so I don't have any good sources for sea creatures. But there are three different kinds of freshwater fish in our freezer - my aunt lives by a lake and brings fish - again in exchange for our mountain honey.

Well, this is just to express - not all animals have to be kept in bad conditions. And there's no point in stopping eating meat just because this happens somewhere. Because it's the same with fruit and vegetables - they are spreyed every week against various deseases and pests, the vegetable beds are sprayed with pesticides hundred times.... and again - people can choose not to buy such produce. (I'm lucky enough to have family orchards situated in a nature reserve area, so not only are they never sprayed with anything, but there are like 4 cars a DAY that go near our orchards. That's the reason we habe bees.)

My eating was quite healthy before dx, I would say. We eat meat, broth from bones+veggies, we eat fruit and veggies every day a lot. I do love chocolate or ice-cream and various sweets like home made pies etc. But maybe with all the running and caring for garden and orchards - I have never been over BMI 20 my entire life (not counting 2 pregnancies of course). And bam - at 38 I found my lump. But there was a huge family stress (parents) AND two maternal aunts got BC some 5 years ago. So I think these 2 factors are my reasons I got bc.

now in chemo, I eat just about anything I have an appetite for. I don't want to do any big changes. I still eat a lot of fruit and veggies and meat but I especially crave eggs. I just eat what I am able to. I plan to make some changes after I finish treatment. But I want to take on some more exercise.

jaboo, as I said, I think stephilosophy is being hard on herself, but she asked for suggestions on how to not want meat. You don't have to justify your eating decisions to anyone.

I will never dispute that a healthy diet is good for the body however, guilt and anxiety over what goes in ones mouth simply sucks s bit more joy out of your life unecessarily. Food is a source of pleasure as well as socialization. Not suggesting that you eat burgers and cookies all day, everyday but never feel guilty about treating yourself. I find that being compulsive about diet or exercise sucks too much joy out of life, and what’s the point of living without joy