Newly diagnosed at 26

Terje,

Yes I meant Body Mass Index.  I can't remember where I saw or heard it, but it was something about women with a BMI greater than 25 either having a greater chance of recurrence or poorer prognosis.  I wish I could remember if I read it somewhere or heard it from a news article.  It may have some correlation with higher BMI and insulin like you pointed out. 

Lillie,

I found how to put the picture in the avatar.  Go to the Member Control Panel and edit profile.  Scroll down to where you type stuff in for your signature and where you can select an Avatar for your screen name.  You can select from an avatar on this site or upload your own.  The picture can only be 15kb in size or 64 X 64 pixels.  I took a picture then cropped it down using one of the photo software programs from my digitel camera.  Then I resized it to 64 x 64 pixels and saved it.  I just browsed my pc until I found the picture, then uploaded it and saved it as my new avatar.  It wasn't too difficult, but if your picture is larger than 15 kb in size, it won't upload.

Yulia,  MY BMI is out of whack... I was 242 lbs and am 5' 6". I am done to 199 - 202, depending on the day, i have hot that plateau and haven't move any in a while. I have started exercising 50 - 60 minutes a day, 4-5 days a week. I have totally changed my diet, because of my TNBC dx.  The first book I read on it was "AntiCancer - A New Way of Life". I believe a lot of what he writes about and contiue to try to updated my supplements and diet based off of that book and what I read on the internet. I will include what I am currently taking, in addition to my multivitamin which is very good, low Iron,   higher in Selenium (200) .  I also spend a lot of time researching things I read hear, and any new things I hear about. I am not following a Dr prescribe supplement  program...  this is my own thing..and based on  my opinion of what i have read.  Those in orange I haven't started yet.. Flax has me in the bathroom a lot, tried to start that a few times.. and I am eating Tuna Steaks a couple times a week along with things lime pasta with extra omega 3 and egss with extra omega 3, so I haven't started the fish oil yet..

Hi Yulia and welcome.

Hello Yulia,

Edited by scared - Feb 26 2010 at 11:35pm

Almost forgot to say that my treatments are going just great, thank you!!! The WBC count is low but it should be alright by the time of next Chemo, which is on Tuesday.

Yea....I too continue to say WHY?????? I was also BRCA 1 and 2 negative...... I am still trying to figure this out. I had all three of my kids young, nursed, and absolutely no family history of any kind of cancer LET ALONE BREAST....oh yea diagnosed at 36

Yulia,

There is another great book, Anticancer:  A New Way of Life, by Dr. David Servan-Schreiber.

http://www.anticancerways.com/