Wednesday, August 22, 2012

August 22, 2012 - Wednesday - Fluffy Chix Low Carb Menus

Weight - 222.8lbs
JUDDD Day 10 - DD (Down Day - 500 cal goal)

Nutrition Totals - 402Cals, 16.4g F, 18.3gC, 7.9gFib, 47.4g P, 10.4g Net Carbs

Wake - 6:30am

Breakfast - 3c Decaff Coffee, unsweetened, black
Lunch (3pm) - 2oz Grilled Center Cut Pork Loin, lean only (leftover)
2 oz Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Olive Oil Spray

Dinner (6:15pm) - 2c Chicken Noodle Soup (2c Bone Broth, 1 1/2 oz Cabbage, 1/2s Shiritaki Noodles, 1oz Zucchini, 1/2 med Mushroom)
1c Green Beans with 1tsp GF Butter

Bed - 11pm
Notes - Fell asleep much easier last night! Really am digging the close to pitch blackness! I went to sleep with a bandana tied around my eyes, loosely. LOL, how attractive! I tied it in front so I didn't have to sleep on the knot. Went to sleep in the recliner chair cuz of continued asthma.

Woke up at 4am in lots o' pain and decided to try the bed for a change of position. I have to sleep on my back cuz of arthritis knots in my hips and also because it's too difficult to breath with the asthma. So I prop up pillows and sleep sitting up in bed. Once I changed positions I slept through to 6:30am without waking.

Yesterday was a real treat. We had a BOGO coupon for Beck's Prime and so we indulged in delicious bunless burger plate. I bring one of my Revolution Rolls and get the bunless plate called a Half Kitchen Sink add grilled mushrooms. It's huge! I share part of my guac and grilled onions with Denny cuz the serving is too big.

I ate half of my burger and brought the other half home. Denny will be "stuck" eating my leftovers for his lunch today! Poor Denny. *sniff* I did eat 4 sweet potato fries. Beck's has delicious ones and they don't use soybean oil to fry. It's one of the few places I will eat sweet potato fries.

Sweet potato fries are still pretty high carb, so I limit them as a rare treat and always end up choosing 4 of the prettiest fries lol! Seems to do the job for me, cuz I get the experience without a carb rush or blood sugar spike and usually without any resulting big weight gain - a sign that my body is tolerating that quantity ok. I get my "fix" without detriment or derailment and don't feel deprived and it's a big win! I pick up my burger like the rest of humanity and I'm flying - feeling "diet free, unconstrained and letting my freak-flag-fly"  - for another day.

Can't tell you how important that is to my diet success. The second I constrain myself (oh I hear ya saying it..."You eat 500 cals every other day! Jasus, how much more constrained do you have to get?") with foods that are taboo - well, it's a big fat recipe for disaster waiting to happen. And the way I get around the feeling of deprivation or constraint with JUDDD is in dealing with quantity and eating times. I tell my little warped mind I can eat anything I choose. Nothing is off limits.

I have little desire for big amounts of food during the day. I'm busy and my mind is focused elsewhere and I actually am annoyed at the inconvenience of needing to stop and prepare breakfasts and lunches during the work week. I get hungry around the "after school snack time" and if I have a little Susie Snax, it carries me through to dinner without the Mean Hungries raising there ugly heads even once!

So then, if I go into dinner with a lovely salad, a veg and 3-4oz of protein, I feel like I've had my regular dinner and no deprivation felt on DDs (Down Days). Win one for the Gipper!

Now that I'm observing this feeding window, the UD actually present more of a problem in eating enough calories. I'm just not hungry. This CRR has really zapped most of my hunger. Seriously. The only time I've had less hunger than this was during chemo and radiation.

It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out. I'm still happy to say this is an ongoing n=1 experiment.

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November 26, 2012
Resumed Atkins Induction after surgery and recovery.


September 25, 2012

Bilateral Latissimus Dorsi Flap Resection for Stage IIIC Breast Cancer Reconstruction



September 19, 2012

Quit JUDDD and low carb to prepare for surgery.


August 13, 2012 -

Resumed JUDDD schedule while continuing with the Circadian Rhythm Schedule for eating and sleeping windows.


July 23 - August 12 -

I'm starting an n=1 pseudo-experiment today. It's based on experiments with Calorie Restriction and Food Restriction or Food Windows. I'm working with some guidance on this. The idea will be to reset my Circadian Rhythms.New research shows that Circadian Rhythm disruption influences inflammation and obesity as well as insulin sensitivity. These are all areas I'm desperate to address because fixing these areas could allow my body to heal. This could give me a better shot at remaining cancer free.


For the next 3 weeks, I must reset the Circadian Clock inside my body. To reset the CC (Circadian Clock) I need to discontinue JUDDD over the next 3 weeks and simply adhere to a feeding, sleeping and waking schedule. I will be adding a note section at the end of each day in order to evaluate status and moods.

Step 1: Eat a low carb diet without calorie restriction for the next 3 weeks without any type of calorie rotation.

Step 2: Eat all meals within an 8 hour feeding window - 11am - 7pm. Absolutely no eating after 7pm. Non-caloric liquids are allowed on demand.

Step 3: Adhere to a bedtime with total darkness at 11pm and wake time of 6:30am, every day.

Step 4: After 3 weeks I will resume JUDDD Rotations with a 20% Calorie Restriction on Down Days - 500 kcals, Up Days will allow up to 2340 kcals. The JUDDD Rotation will feature low carb nutrition. Continue to follow the FR (Food Restriction eating window, bedtime, and waking time.)

Step 5: After 2 weeks back on JUDDD Rotations, evaluate the ongoing weight loss level I feel comfortable in sustaining for the long term. I can go as high as a 50% restriction and still experience activation of the SIRT1 genes and asthma alleviation. Continue to follow the FR (Food Restriction eating window, bedtime, and waking time.)

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JUDDD Plan -

What in the Sam-hill, cockamamie food plan are you following? That can't be low carb!! Well, you're right it isn't simply low carb. I follow a derivation of the Johnson's Alternate Day Diet. I tweaked the JUDDD diet, as it's called, into a low carb version.

I choose to follow this plan right now, because I am experiencing dramatic improvement on asthma symptoms, blood sugar control and weight loss.

More importantly, I also experienced a greater than 50% response rate in neo-adjuvant chemotherapy towards a high grade prolific ER+/PR+/Her2Neu- breast cancer and lost 45lbs during treatment - when most people in breast cancer treatment gain 10-20lbs. (KI-67 was 22% with 17mitotic bodies).


Sure, I'm a turtle. Weight loss is slow weight loss. But it's weight loss! Hope that helps bring you up to speed!

The JUDDD diet has quite a bit of testing behind it and is founded upon theories that alternate day caloric restriction activates the longevity gene, the SIRT1 gene.


Suggested side effects of the JUDDD Diet are greater blood sugar control, reduction of systemic inflammation, relief or improvement of asthma conditions, reduction in movement disorder brain dysfunction, and possible anti-cancer effects.

But! Key to remember, I'm an n=1, not a doctor, not a nutritionist, nor allied health practitioner and you MUST do your own research. I'm just a girl who had cancer and is dancing with NED at this point in time.