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Leila said:Yeah I'm exercising, too. A recent breast cancer study showed 3-5 hours
a week of moderate exercise gives you as much benefit as chemotherapy.
They said the exercise could be simply brisk walking. So I'm marking
the calendar with orange circles and pie slices - each circle is an
hour of walking, and 15 minute increments are indicated wtih the
appropriate pie slice. I can look at the calendar and see by the number
of circles and fractions whether I've made 3 hours for the week.
Healthy snacking - I tend to have blood sugar swings so I have been
eating fruit occasionally when I get hungry. Can't be a total fascist
about this. If I'm hungry, I'm hungry. And this morning my breakfast
wasn't sturdy enough so I ate gazpacho and a plain bagel in a cafe at
11 a.m., then had a real lunch at 2 pm when I got home. Ate again at 6.
So technically I guess I had two lunches - because of the thin
breakfast. If I'm going to make it to noon without a snack (or even
11:30) I have to eat eggs and bread and fruit for breakfast. But I
don't want to eat eggs every day. What to do?
Now it's 10:15 and I'd like to nosh but you know what? I don't need to!
Should go to bed instead. Staying up late makes me want to snack (there
was some study in the paper that backed that one up, too)
No sweets - that's a pretty easy one to remember. If I allow myself a
nice carb serving at mealtime (i.e. a slice of baguette) then I don't
miss the sweets. Yah, yah, I know the carb fanatics say white bread is
as evil as sugar, but dammit, I get too damned hungry when I bypass all
the carbs. Have to eat animal protein every day, and seem to need those
carbs too.
We'll see how it goes. This is only week two of this moderation plan.
Yes, Cindy, I do eat whole grains. NOt so sure I'm insisting on low fat
however. Tonight's dinner was chicken with artichokes over brown rice
(MIL made it for us, lovely), green beans plain (kid food), green
salad, and fruit for dessert. Oh yes and I tasted a little of the kids'
pasta, with parmesan and olive oil. Also ate some roasted almonds to
fill out the hole in my tummy.
If I don't drop enough weight I'll have to get stricter. BORING!
Leila,
I don't see anything wrong with this approach at all. You can have some
non-whole grains in combination with whole ones. If you didn't want
eggs for breakfast, you could have a little cheese or yogurt for the
protein--or even peanut butter on a bagel. Any of these would sustain
satiety until lunch.
[OT note for the general RFC public: Breast cancer seems to be one
where the treatments can cause weight gain, not weight loss. This is
especially true now that there are better ways to combat the nausea and
vomiting that chemotherapy drugs can cause. Add to this the fact that
women who are diagnosed with breast cancer are often at the age where
weight is all too easy to gain, and you have trouble.]
I've fallen off the exercise wagon in the last week or two because of
the arrival of SO's mother and a nasty virus that a student gave me at
the end of the quarter. (At least the fever raised my metabolic rate
enough to discourage weight gain.) Yesterday was the first day I was
able to get out for a walk to mail a letter and pick up a few things at
the grocery store. Today is strength training day--the "lawn" needs
mowing before it rains again.
Cindy
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