You're giving up that ?????

I decided to cut down on dairy fat in discussion with my medicos - for general reasons but also because some reports think full fat milk (usually from pregnant cows) may not be the best choice for women with hormone receptor positive breast cancer. It's not proven. But as I want to keep weight down too, I go for low fat milk and yoghurt and very little cheese. Can't find anyone who recommends alcohol on a regular basis. Which is a pity. I drink de-alcoholised wine, can't really recommend it that much but I prefer it to the other options. For the rest, just the good diet basics - more vegetables, fruit, nuts, preferably fresh with fibre, less meat, more fish, less processed meat, less sugar, more fibrous carbohydrates. When I lost my tastebuds on chemo, this list got severely reduced! The good thing was that the few things still with some taste were good stuff. When you feel lousy, it's really understandable to eat what you enjoy. Problem is, it can stick - in time and in all the wrong places! Good luck all.

I've given up giving up stuff. I drink very little, a glass of wine or champagne at special occasions such as birthdays, and do do a test drive with the sweet sherry whilst making Christmas trifles, for which I get many requests...end up making about half a dozen huge ones. I feel it is imperative that I test the sherry first, during and after the Annual Trifle Making Marathon, After getting over the chemo, I've again had a taste for chocolate, and at night, whilst watching Netflix and (surprise surprise) doing my knitting, I indulge in some choc covered sultanas. I generally blame one or other of the cats when the packet is empty, but I don't make a pig of myself. A small packet lasts me about five days.

I have a strange desire to get absolutely plastered...but I'm not going to be able to let myself do it.

@Ellamary98 The social pressure to drink is a funny thing eh? I'm greatly assisted by one of my best friends being a complete non-drinker. Her father was a terrible alcoholic and she swore never to drink. My biggest problem is my adorable 86yo father-in-law. When I stopped drinking completely at diagnosis, he kept offering me wine and chocolate making jokes when I politely declined, often with explanation. This went on almost daily for two months. In the end I had to ask my husband to ask him to stop. Now that I'm having the odd one he's started again bless him!

Pre cancer I was eating healthy and exercising.  I made as much as I could from scratch, all my own bread products, yoghurt, stocks, soups, you name it.   If I was to give anything up because of the cancer I'd have to start eating junk foods and not exercising!! 

Along with some of the ladies above, I now only drink alcohol on my own and family birthdays and Christmas, just my own rule of thumb as I couldn't ignore the stats on drinking and recurrence  . I still have butter on my toast ( I hate margarine ) and fish but mainly have a plant based diet now , based again on my googling and my vegan daughter :) 
Because I don't sleep well, I'm drinking coffee again after going off it, but not all the time, and substitute with dandelion tea.

I hardly drink alcohol at all any more but its not on ban list. In fact nothing is on a ban list but I just don't crave some stuff any more like lollies or softdrink. Sometimes I do like chocolate. I have changed my coffee to black instant with no milk or sugar as its only 7kj so theres no guilt having a few through the day. I eat more fruit like oranges or tomatoes as snacks. I can't cope with fatty meals like mince dishes or fish and chips although I do still eat them sometimes. I just have to chew a few quickeze to stop the burning reflux. Our main meal is usually some sort of basic meat with a pot full of boiled vegetables. Between Tamoxifen and these betta blockers Metaprolol my weight just keeps on going on even with exercise and just basic meals. I may have to go back to the Gp and see if there is an alternative to Metaprolol as this is just ridiculous weight gain for me

I'm not sure I can answer that except to say that I have had hardly any alcohol since diagnosis.  I had my first glass of wine since February last week for my birthday and while I enjoyed it, I also felt guilty (rightly or wrongly) for having it. And that kind of pisses me off.

Anyway,  apart from that, I hope one day to start getting my car s and sugar intake under control!  And I've upped the amount and variety of veggies in the meals to varied reactions from the family.

After my first diagnosis, 5 years ago. I made no drastic changes, really. I didn't drink much through treatment, and coffee gave me terrible hot flushes once I was on the Tamoxifen, but otherwise I carried on as normal. Having said that, I had always eaten a pretty clean and simple diet and exercised a lot. Over the last couple of years, my drinking has spiked to a couple of glasses most nights (extra on a Friday), with a few party binges across the course of the year. I absolutely knew that it wasn't a good idea- for anyone, but particularly for someone on hormonal cancer treatment. I had a couple of short breaks earlier this year, including all of January, and tried replacing wine with gin (which I drink quite weak), but it wasn't until my second diagnosis in May that I had an epiphany- time to completely stop. It's not for everyone, I know, but I find that I function much better without the evening drinks and I have already dropped a few kilos. Interestingly and predictably, my pals are struggling a bit with the new me- there's a lot of gentle pressure to drink socially, isn't there? Like you, @kmakm  I don't really miss it. In a way, my mets diagnosis has given me the courage to give up alcohol and because everyone is so supportive, the pressure I otherwise would be under (to have a drink with the gang/let my hair down) is much reduced. I am the now the designated driver, and my friends are designing mocktails for me wherever we go. :) Oh- and my husband has gone teetotal in solidarity, although I don't expect that to last! 

@kmakm is right the hidden kjs or calories, in enjoying a glass of something