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[breezybree20022]

OK everyone who has read my posts knows I have cancer.... mother of eight.. wife to a military man who is going Spec Op Support. So ok... I want to stay active and still kinda of hot to my husband while he is gone... so I need help in figuring out a low fat diet... and a light excersise plan. I asked my doctor and he said keep it light... umm yeah I have eight kids... my idea of light is massive housework, chasing kids, cooking for an army... somehow I think his idea and mine will not be similar at all.
So any help would be welcome! I love chocolate..... and hate the protein shakes my husband downs with such regularity that it makes me gag just thinking about it.
I also need more iron and vitamins in my diet... with all the treatments and surgeries I think I am depleted of everything and on enough diets to choke a horse////
Help is much much appreciated.
Bree

[Shar36]

BB ~ since you love chocolate...try the Jell-O sugar free chocolate pudding cups, each one has about 60 calories and that's less than the fat free Jell-O, which have about 100 per serving cup.

I also found this link...hope it helps you.

http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=53912

[breezybree20022]

Oh Shar you have just become my Hero...... I thought I was going to have to give up chocolate for good.... and that is just a sin. Heck I already quit smoking ( cause of the cancer) and cut down on my coffee... but then I thought no more chocolate... heck that was just crossing the line. Hubby is harping on me to give up swimming too since I tire so easily... but that is the only place the kids don't follow me! I mean heck they even innterrupt the call of nature.
So anyway...... thank you from the very bottom of my heart.
Bree

[Shar36]

Oh Shar you have just become my Hero...... I thought I was going to have to give up chocolate for good.... and that is just a sin. Heck I already quit smoking ( cause of the cancer) and cut down on my coffee... but then I thought no more chocolate... heck that was just crossing the line. Hubby is harping on me to give up swimming too since I tire so easily... but that is the only place the kids don't follow me! I mean heck they even innterrupt the call of nature.
So anyway...... thank you from the very bottom of my heart.
Bree

You are more than welcome! You may want to see if your Doctor can give you a referral to a nutritionist or perhaps there is a member here who could help in that area. All I can tell you is to read the labels....often times fat free foods are higher in calories than sugar free foods. That is something that I learned from my nutritionist. As far as the iron and the vitamins go you may want to talk to your pharmacist, I'm sure he/she could recommend the proper suppliments for you. If you are currently taking prescription medications that would be your best bet.

As far as the exercise goes if you're in a warmer climate try taking a brisk walk...not fast walking but quick enough to break into a mild sweat. There are all kinds of exercises you can do while in the pool that shouldn't tire you as quickly as the swimming...just a thought...you may want to check into that at the facility where you currently go. Then again chasing after all those kids you should be burning calories like crazy already.

[breezybree20022]

You are more than welcome! You may want to see if your Doctor can give you a referral to a nutritionist or perhaps there is a member here who could help in that area. All I can tell you is to read the labels....often times fat free foods are higher in calories than sugar free foods. That is something that I learned from my nutritionist. As far as the iron and the vitamins go you may want to talk to your pharmacist, I'm sure he/she could recommend the proper suppliments for you. If you are currently taking prescription medications that would be your best bet.

As far as the exercise goes if you're in a warmer climate try taking a brisk walk...not fast walking but quick enough to break into a mild sweat. There are all kinds of exercises you can do while in the pool that shouldn't tire you as quickly as the swimming...just a thought...you may want to check into that at the facility where you currently go. Then again chasing after all those kids you should be burning calories like crazy already.
I am burning calories and don't eat a lot as it is....since well when you eat an then have nausea....... well it seems I am like an anorexic without the actual trying to be one. ( Yes I am joking about the being sick ) I figure if your not laughing your not living...... so I am gonna laugh my rear off.
I actually talked to my doctor..... ( after he gave all the other doctors a grand tour of what the inside of me looks like..... damn I need a toll booth for that.. I could be rich!) And he said I could do anything i had the energy for as long as it was low impact.... I promised not to try to benchpress the kids or hubby.....rolls eyes.... he also said I needed to rest and not worry about the house and all.... I then asked him if he had lost count of the little people currently in my house.. and If he knew that they had no clue how to clean their own rooms lol. so Yeah I am active I just want to do something for me while hubby is gone.
Thanks so much
Bree

[9007112]

OK everyone who has read my posts knows I have cancer.... mother of eight.. wife to a military man who is going Spec Op Support. So ok... I want to stay active and still kinda of hot to my husband while he is gone... so I need help in figuring out a low fat diet... and a light excersise plan. I asked my doctor and he said keep it light... umm yeah I have eight kids... my idea of light is massive housework, chasing kids, cooking for an army... somehow I think his idea and mine will not be similar at all.
So any help would be welcome! I love chocolate..... and hate the protein shakes my husband downs with such regularity that it makes me gag just thinking about it.
I also need more iron and vitamins in my diet... with all the treatments and surgeries I think I am depleted of everything and on enough diets to choke a horse////
Help is much much appreciated.
Bree

I'd try a zero carb, high fat, moderate protein diet if I were you.

Carbs and cancer are like Romeo&Juliet.

http://www.biblelife.org/cancer.htm

[9007112]

Thought this one was helpful too: http://www.biblelife.org/myths.htm

[Aram]

I have a friend that was going through something similar, although her children were already out of the house. But, as mentioned above, they recommend a high fat diet, mostly because they gauge the chemo doses on weight. Unless, of course, it's different in your case. I know these things tend to vary from person and type.

[breezybree20022]

Yeah they have me on the wonderful insure drinks......ewwwww I think I would rather drink my own urine..... Insure taste like... well it ain't good. Anyway... I just don't want to gain like a hundred pounds while I am having all the surgeries and treatments.... I would like to have a small rear end when it is over..... I am deathly afraid that when it is all said and done.... my rear end will have its own zip code. ( I know I should be all worried about beating the cancer.. but thats a given..... Im strong enough to have beaten it before so I will do it again. ) I just don't want to get so big my hubby comes home and when I tell him to kiss my butt he asks which hemisphere or something...... Not that he would say something like that.... but my brothers would...so I am looking to stay healthy body weight and try to work out lightly like the doctor said I could. I wanted to go to this special womens SEAL building camp where they worked out and all to experience it but well that doesn't look like it will happen.
Smiles
Bree
Thanks for all the help you guys... loved the websites with lots of info. Yall are great and it is so nice to talk to people who don't expect me to sit in some corner and cry or get depressed...... lord I hate how people look at you when you have cancer.

[Jen_MV]

Hi Bree,
You are an amazing woman. Two family members (both in remission) went through chemo and radiation therapy and I remembered they were using a book my aunt, who is an oncology nurse, recommended for their diet. The book is Eating Well through Cancer written by Clegg and Miletello M.D. It should be at the local bookstore. Clegg is a cook and the book has lots of easy recipes. It has foods recommended pre, during, and post treatments and also foods to eat to decrease side effects of the treatments. Sorry it took me so long to post this, I just finally got hold of my aunt in Chicago.

May God bless you and your family,
jen

[breezybree20022]

Hi Bree,
You are an amazing woman. Two family members (both in remission) went through chemo and radiation therapy and I remembered they were using a book my aunt, who is an oncology nurse, recommended for their diet. The book is Eating Well through Cancer written by Clegg and Miletello M.D. It should be at the local bookstore. Clegg is a cook and the book has lots of easy recipes. It has foods recommended pre, during, and post treatments and also foods to eat to decrease side effects of the treatments. Sorry it took me so long to post this, I just finally got hold of my aunt in Chicago.

May God bless you and your family,
jen
Thank you darlin your awesome your self.
Bree