young Survivors Conference....I'm Baaaaackk!

 

I am excited about the new nutrition, diet etc thread. I am also glad that my onc made a mistake when he said 20 grams of fat.

 

I am so glad you got to go to the conference,  your reports have been excellent!  Thank you so much.

 

    Skippy you sound like you're doing sooo good, I know I get pretty sarcastic sometimes times (morbid too) but I'm glad you're still hanging out with us!!

    

     On a different note, I didn't get to critique the Young Survival Conference BUT I plan on pitching them a bit of sh%t because the food that was catered by the hotel was large volumes of fat (cheese), processed white flour, soda pop and generally crap.  What a mixed message it sends to have all of these educational classes of nutrition and the feed us that.  I have no will power either and ate too much cheese.  I think that's why I caught this cold.  There is so much out there that pushes us to make unhealthy choices, we really need to re-inforce this in one another.  I just simply don't buy  the crap, thus I make my whole family support me !

     I did PM admin for those new threads.

 

Later,

 

Ronda

 

     We'll all start finding cool tricks, short cuts and compromises to share with eachother.  One thing is Nonfat/lowfat yougurt in place of sour cream for dressings and dips...you can't tell.  Also I just discovered Ben & Jerrys Low fat Cherry Garcia...it's mine mine mine!  I just eat a bite at a time when I need a bit of a sugar fix.  I think I should also point out there are alot of nasty low fat foods out there that are loaded with chemicals...but are low fat.  I tried to take that route before and ended up with hives from some nasty additive.  If we can figure this out using whole, good foods I think all will benefit.   Give us the scoop on what your dietician says.  Let him/her know about the WINS study.

 

Ronda

 

I've got a good one...during chemotherapy one day in December, a volunteer passed around a plate of sweet cookies, pastries, brownies, etc. to all of the patients in the infusion room.  Bless those volunteers and all that they do, but come on!  Sugar is the devil! 

 

With that being said...my nutritionist did advise me to carb-starve my cells the day before chemo, and then when infusion began to carb-load by snacking on Goldfish, dates, raisins, or other high-glycemic foods.  This, he explained, increased cancer cell glucogen (?) uptake and would feed very hungry cancer cells a hefty dose of toxic A/C or Taxol.  This is the same reason that we are asked to not eat before scans and then are shot up with glucogen(?) isotopes to find evidence of cancer cells that are devouring the glucose.  (I'll do my homework on this topic later as I'm not articulating very well.)

 

Ben and Jerry and ice cream fans...I can't live without Breyers Low-carb fudge bars.  They are sweetened with Splenda, are 100 calories, 3g sugar, and 9 carbs.  I role the fudge bar in chopped walnuts! 

 

How about a new topic devoted to threads relating to living beyond treatment?  There we can post ideas and get support relating to diet, exercise, mood, etc.  I've really been battling a bit of anxiety lately!

 

Skippy,  That totally makes sense about carb starving the cancer!  See, it's information like this that will make our doctors evolve.  Of course they'd like us to stay off the internet, because that's how we discover the latest things THEY should know about!  I'd like to develope a hand out out for the do-gooders that gives healthy food suggestions.  I happened to sit next to the PhD nutritonist at the airport for an hour and we talked about this very issue.  She said the oncs don't like to restrict diet during chemo because the women are going through so much, she said that's like letting a smoker continue to smoke during lung cancer treatment.  If the oncs don't push it, who will??  WE WILL!!! Maybe they'll get it someday.    FYI  There's site on Splenda  www.splendaexposed.com  I use to use Splenda prior to BC and was having kidney problems, someone told me about this site and low and behold when I quit using splenda my symptoms went away and never came back.  There is another alternative sweetner called stevia, it's derived from a plant, and is low carb/calorie. I thought Splenda was the greatest until I discovered it's closer to chlorine than sugar! (Now Splenda!!! Will our suffering ever end!?!)

 

Ronda