Lifestyle and Diet Changes After Cancer.
Hi all, I have done chemo from Feb to April after surgery in Dec. Radiotherapy was done in May. My herceptin treatment will continue till next Feb. I thought that was it, until I heard several cases o...
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We store estrogen in our fat @Unicornkisses, which is, as far as I understand it, a risk factor when it comes to hormone receptive cancers. Perhaps that coupled with the probability that overweight women don't have great diets or get enough exercise could be the issue.
Guess what? I don't give a shit. I've had two bouts of BC and will probably have a third. I'm vain enough that I don't want to be vast and flabby and I do enjoy getting out each day and maintaining a moderate level of fitness. What I won't do is beat myself up about what I eat or drink or stress too much about being a couple of kilos overweight.
I'll never know why I got so lucky and pulled the cancer card and I no longer care. Half the stuff you read about diet and exercise comes perilously close to victim blaming. What ever. Too late for any of that to be helpful.
Eat well, drink some wine if you want to, enjoy a few treats, I'm going to live my life and I don't have the willpower to reconstruct myself into some health conscious paragon. Bet it would come back anyway. End rant.
Guess what? I don't give a shit. I've had two bouts of BC and will probably have a third. I'm vain enough that I don't want to be vast and flabby and I do enjoy getting out each day and maintaining a moderate level of fitness. What I won't do is beat myself up about what I eat or drink or stress too much about being a couple of kilos overweight.
I'll never know why I got so lucky and pulled the cancer card and I no longer care. Half the stuff you read about diet and exercise comes perilously close to victim blaming. What ever. Too late for any of that to be helpful.
Eat well, drink some wine if you want to, enjoy a few treats, I'm going to live my life and I don't have the willpower to reconstruct myself into some health conscious paragon. Bet it would come back anyway. End rant.