weight loss and body image

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jphilpo
jphilpo Member Posts: 177
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Hi All,

I am SO FRUSTRATED with my body!! I have gained about 30lbs since all this started in 2009. I am now suffering from severe anemia and I have to force myself to walk. I do this everyday but one or two a week so I can rest my legs and feet frome bone and joint pain from femara. Am I whining???

I can't seem to lose the weight. My husband says to be patient, because my body is still dealing with after effect of chemo, rads, medication..., but I just want to feel normal!

Thanks for listening,
Jean

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  • joannstar
    joannstar Member Posts: 403 Member
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    I'm right there with you.
    I've posted about this before. I am currently 9 done out of 33 rads and they won't let me even try to lose weight until I'm through which was the same thing I was told during chemo. I have more that 60 pounds to lose, having gained back what I had painstakingly lost in 2009. I gained some of it celebrating my wedding and then 4 months late when diagnosed, I turned to food to stuff the feelings. I am so uncomfortable in my body and my joints hurt from just the extra weight (I'd like to blame the chemo, but in all honesty, I only gained about 8 pounds during the 18 weeks).
    My plan is to go back to what worked (after 4/1/11) in 2009 which was basically a 1200 calorie plan and hopefully start to exercise. I can't seem to fit the exercise in with rads and working full time and having an active social life.
    I try to remember that my body has been through a lot--but that doesn't really help does it?
    JoAnn
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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    i gained 25 and lost 10
    MINE from Steriods...during breast cancer treatments my ulcertive colitis was at it's all time worst in 17 yrs...


    I"ll can relate totally with you...
  • disneyfan2008
    disneyfan2008 Member Posts: 6,583 Member
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    pervious posting not too long ago
    about weight gain..maybe you can find it.
  • Gabe N Abby Mom
    Gabe N Abby Mom Member Posts: 2,413
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    I'm reading Hester Hill's
    I'm reading Hester Hill's book After Breast Cancer. She says it will take the same amount of time to recover from treatment as the treatment took. So if your treatment was nine months, it will take nine months to recover. As soon as I read this, I felt weight lift from my shoulders. I no longer have to be 'back to myself' the day after rads are done.

    It gave me "permission" to focus on recovery, just like I've focused on treatment. With my treatments, I made a plan (with my docs and family) and knew that following it would take 9 months. Now I can put a nine month plan together for recovery. The first step...finish reading the book.

    I hope this helps.

    Hugs,

    Linda
  • Kylez
    Kylez Member Posts: 3,761 Member
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    disneyfan2008 said:

    i gained 25 and lost 10
    MINE from Steriods...during breast cancer treatments my ulcertive colitis was at it's all time worst in 17 yrs...


    I"ll can relate totally with you...

    You are not whining. You
    You are not whining. You have been thru so much. Just give your body some time, give yourself some time to lose the weight. Is there a nutritionist at your cancer center? Perhaps they could be of some help to you too.


    Go easy on yourself!


    Hugs, Kylez
  • dbhadra
    dbhadra Member Posts: 344 Member
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    Gabe N Abby Mom said:

    I'm reading Hester Hill's
    I'm reading Hester Hill's book After Breast Cancer. She says it will take the same amount of time to recover from treatment as the treatment took. So if your treatment was nine months, it will take nine months to recover. As soon as I read this, I felt weight lift from my shoulders. I no longer have to be 'back to myself' the day after rads are done.

    It gave me "permission" to focus on recovery, just like I've focused on treatment. With my treatments, I made a plan (with my docs and family) and knew that following it would take 9 months. Now I can put a nine month plan together for recovery. The first step...finish reading the book.

    I hope this helps.

    Hugs,

    Linda

    thanks for your post Linda!
    Sounds like a great book! I think that yes, the expectation is that once it's all over - the chemo, the surgery, the rads...we're cured and immediately back in action...good to know and expect that recovery takes at least the same amount of time as treatment did.

    Laura

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