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Anyone read " How To Starve Cancer" yet ?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Aug 4, 2022 | Replies (43)Comment receiving replies
Hello All, What is the best way to get started changing my eating into this "starving cancer" world? I've not done the no-processed food eating, but I'd like to try. It gets a little overwhelming to know where to start. I am a breast cancer survivor, double mastectomy after TNBC, and just reached my 2-year milestone. I've been reeling from chemo to cancer surgery, DIEP flap, a hysterectomy, parathyroid surgery, and in July, I'll finish my surgery-schedule with the revision surgery in plastics. I'm TIRED, but the cancer is gone. I want to focus on changing my lifestyle - diet, exercise, sleep, how I take in life . . but the eating part seems all too confusing after over 50 years of eating what seems good to me. Can someone recommend some good solid steps to take in getting started? My BMI is too high, and my post-cancer treatment body is worn out. I'd like to start moving forward. Thanks in advance.
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There are a lot of books out there that can help you. Two that I have read are, "Chris Beat Cancer" by Chris Wark - my daughter gave me - and "Keep Your Breasts" by Susan Moss - my Naturopath loaned me. Both of them have a lot of information on diet, exercise and lifestyle changes, etc. There are probably other ones.
It is a big change, so I started out slowly and am still working on it a little bit at a time. I was not able to face changing everything overnight, so I am easing myself into it.
I started adding a lot more vegetables and fruits to my diet, cutting way down on meat (eventually I'd like to do at least a few weeks of no meat), cutting way down on dairy, buying organic when I can and if I can afford it. I am upping my exercise (more walking and lifting weights (at home) and hope to start swimming soon), learning how to do meditations and mindfulness exercises. One of my daughters bought me a juicer and so I am trying to use that.
There is a lot of help on "YouTube" for free, on meditations, mindfulness, seniors exercise workouts - some are only 15 minutes per day if you want to start out small. There is also a lot of information about all different kinds of cancer subjects on YouTube that I found helpful. I had to try to find as much free resources as I can because we are not rich. 🙂
Also I started seeing a Naturopathic Dr. who is helping me to get my body more healthy by taking some natural supplements etc.
It is a process and I try to praise myself when I see some improvements. I've started to lose some of the belly fat that I am sure contributed to my cancer, since belly fat stores estrogen.
Try to do it in little bits so that you don't feel overwhelmed. Good Luck! 🙂