A weighty issue
Hi all
i finished chemo end of August last year, had surgery three weeks later and finished my radiotherapy end of November. I'm finding it really hard to shift weight since I stopped treatment des...
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Hi Marni_s
I had surgery followed by chemo late last year and have now finished 7 weeks of radio just two weeks ago.
I too put on weight through treatment and have now ended up about 5kgs heavier than I have ever been before in my life. I asked my oncologist about it as nothing I do is helping to shift the extra weight, she said it is caused by the drop in oestrogen (I currently have NONE according to my blood results) post treatment and there's nothing I can really do about it because no amount of exercise or nutrition can replace the missing hormones that stabilise body weight :( Also I have not started tamoxifen yet as there's no point blocking what's not there!
My focus is to keep going with healthy nutrition, regular exercise and meditation and hope that in time my body will revert to it's normal pattern once the adjustment period in hormones settles after treatment. Then maybe the weight will come down. I have stopped my dairy intake however as this seems to congest my lymphatic system making the cellulite and dimpled skin look much worse, it has helped a lot so far with the superficial appearance at least!
Good luck :)