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'Newcastle diet' advice

Brunneria said:
Hi Paulins,

Sorry about the chemo. And I'm sorry I can't contribute anything useful about how to handle your BG during it and the steroids - but I'm sending you tremendously hopeful best wishes.
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Thanks @Brunneria - I am actually quite calm, as it was caught very early (by chance! And a year before a scheduled mammogram) and I know that if I just have all the treatment they are throwing at me then the statistics are very good for me. The number of hospital appointments is mind-blowing though (now 8!)! Yet another one arrived today - this time for a radioactive heart scan as one of the drugs can apparently affect the heart muscles, so they check to make sure all is OK before they start. And I am still working full time, so constant juggling! But joking apart, I feel so lucky to have the national health service (and I have never grudged a penny of my NI contributions knowing that someone in my family will inevitable need them) and to be so near such an excellent BC facility.
 
paulins said:
@AndBreathe and @Pipp - thanks for your support. So much appreciated. I am on a BC thread and there are threads for each month when a new group starts chemo. They share their experiences and offer support. One woman had round 2 today, and a couple was having words across from her. Then the husband walked out leaving the wife weeping. This lovely woman gave her tissues and held her hand, thinking it was anxiety about the chemo. But no, he was telling her that after 12 years of marriage that he was leaving her. During chemo! Beggars belief! I never wish anyone ill, but I hope he contracts a nasty case of ... something embarrassing! - and has the indignity of having to get it treated.
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:wideyed:

She's better off without him.
Although she probably doesn't realise it yet!
 
Treadmill calls - now my dinner has had a chance to digest!
 
good luck @paulins - just been on the bike for 30 mins (only 5 days too early according to the consultant).
 
no @Pipp, I have so over-indulged with carbs in the last few weeks that I have so much glucogen I need to burn off. I really need to do about 8 hours constant to get back to where I should be...

The cravings for carbs are worse when I can't exercise. Go figure that.
 
Andrew Colvin said:
no @Pipp, I have so over-indulged with carbs in the last few weeks that I have so much glucogen I need to burn off. I really need to do about 8 hours constant to get back to where I should be...

The cravings for carbs are worse when I can't exercise. Go figure that.
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Comfort eating and boredom in my case.
Doing exercise takes my mind off it.
(Doing more makes me feel ill enough to take my stomach off it eventually)
 
Actually I think it is to do with endorphins. When you exercise and also eat food your brain releasing them. Without the exercise my brain is demanding the same levels so it is food instead and only carbs release them fast.
 
@paulins good luck with the chemo and all it entails. As I have said before my MIL and friend both lost weight on chemo even with the steroids as it does knock off appetite. So it may be that any weight gain is minimal. Obviously you want to minimise any rise in your BS, but much of that will be out of your control so I think it is best to accept that and minimise the stressing about the fact as that will probably affect levels as much as any treatment.
You are doing so well and your positive attitude is amazing x
 
Thanks folks - much appreciated. @Andrew Colvin - have you been ill? I am so sorry if I missed that post and so hope you are now well on the way to recovery,
@cold ethyl - it is to do with control. I can control what I eat and do
exercise to try to reverse the diabetes but I can't control the BC and have to trust the doctors to sort that out for me. And they will. I like most folks here have worked so hard to lose weight and deal with my BS levels that I refuse to slide and let the BC put me off track. They told me I can continue to do the treadmill throughout so I will. Had my long hair cut in preparation for chemo and colleagues who haven't seen me for months over the summer holiday period think this is all part of the new me and a makeover! So many have said how healthy I look! And I do!
 
Damaged the tendon in my leg and have been told 4 to 6 weeks no exercise and also had a large lump removed from my back last Tuesday
 
@Andrew Colvin - I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you are recovering well and that both your leg and your back have healed now. You must have been so frustrated being unable to do your exercise, take it easy on that bike! Tendons are notoriously slow to heal and so easy to damage.
 
Have now lost exactly 7 stones and had my diabetes review last Thursday. My GP said as far as she is concerned I am now non-diabetic as my readings are so good and at lower end of normal range. She advised me not to lose any more weight, and to introduce more protein, good fats and a little dairy to my diet. So since then have had nuts, avocado, home made soups, and I had a small glass of champagne on Friday to celebrate my sister's birthday (it was a special one). No impact on BS levels as yet. Only very odd thing - I have always thought I was 5'7 but she measured me and said I was 5'5! Have I shrunk? My family said I had never been 5'7 and no I hadn't shrunk! Will let you know how BS holds up over the next few weeks as I try more variety of foods.
 
paulins said:
Have now lost exactly 7 stones and had my diabetes review last Thursday. My GP said as far as she is concerned I am now non-diabetic as my readings are so good and at lower end of normal range. She advised me not to lose any more weight, and to introduce more protein, good fats and a little dairy to my diet. So since then have had nuts, avocado, home made soups, and I had a small glass of champagne on Friday to celebrate my sister's birthday (it was a special one). No impact on BS levels as yet. Only very odd thing - I have always thought I was 5'7 but she measured me and said I was 5'5! Have I shrunk? My family said I had never been 5'7 and no I hadn't shrunk! Will let you know how BS holds up over the next few weeks as I try more variety of foods.
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Oh that is so wonderful.

Consider yourself hugely hugged!!!

Well done.
 
Thanks @Brunneria and @douglas99. The trick now will be to make sure I keep it off! Do 6k on my treadmill every day and so hopefully the exercise will help me and I'll need to remember that I simply can't eat the foods I ate before. Or as much food! I was told that I had to think that I had reached my personal diabetes trigger and that I would always be susceptible now. So this has to be a lifetime change. I had my long hair cut, and my colleagues did not recognise me after the long summer break. One said he thought I was a new member of staff until I spoke! It is SO worth all the effort fellow Newcastlers! Health benefits aside, great to fit into a size 10 jeans. Keep going.
 
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