Monday, August 27, 2012

August 27, 2012 - Monday - Fluffy Chix Low Carb Menus

Weight - 222.2 lbs
JUDDD Day 15 - DD (Down Day - 500cal )

Nutrition Totals - 456Cals, 30.5gF, 15.2gC, 6.2gFib, 32.7gP, 9.2g NetCarbs

Wake - 6:00am

Breakfast () - Hot Water

Lunch () - Hot Water

Dinner (6:15pm) - Big Salad (2c Romaine, 1-1/2 Radishes, 1/4 lg Cucumber, 1/8c Red Bell Pepper, 2 Tbsp Vinaigrette)
4oz Broccoli with 1/2Tbsp Ghee
3oz Grilled Pork Chop

Bed - 11pm

Notes - I slept sporatically again. And woke a couple of times with pain. I feel exhausted but weirdly wired. I'm also hungry this morning. Can you say insulin and steroids and sugar in the medicine?

Can I just go on record as saying, I do better the less medicine goes in my body?!!! I just wish my body had gotten the memo about that. The thrush is slowly getting a little better, but the cure sucks! It's packed full of sugar (but it's great that it's only a 3ml dose, 4 times a day - it's high dose though). And it makes the back of my throat feel strange and my ears ring. The higher dose of cortisone is kicking in and I feel wired and a bit anxious and my face frequently gets bright red and very hot, followed by a whole body hot flush.

Now the docs would say I'm nuts if I told them this. You aren't supposed to have this kind of reactions to inhaled (non-systemic) steroids. But I have cyclical Cushings Syndrome and I'm just here to tell you that it doesn't matter if I inhale (ahem, Bill Clinton), rub it on my arms in a cream, take it in a pill or an iv. If cortisone is involved in sufficiently large quantities, it's gonna jack with my adrenal glands and I will experience symptoms.

But breathing without feeling like I'm breathing through a snorkle with a very sticky drip in it is highly underrated. So I just have to tough it out for 2 weeks and let the meds do their job and get my mind fixated on something else. At least my numbers started to come back up yesterday. That was a big relief because they hadn't been responding to breathing treatments. And at this point it is looking like my surgery schedule is still in effect (I would have had to delay surgery 2 months if I'd taken systemic steroids for the asthma).

I'm not gonna worry too much about the scale. At least there wasn't a big jump. A 0.2lb jump is nothing. I could get that inconsistency simply by stepping off and back onto the scale (which I do not do...don't want to drive that particular bus to Crazy Town).

If my weight had held from Friday I was down to 219lbs and would have had a beautiful weight loss to report. But thanks to having to eat carbs for tests on Friday and now the sugar in the Nystatin Swish, I'm out of ketosis and up 4lbs from the low. That's ok. I was surprised to see a full inch loss in my waist this week since I had no movement in the measuring tape on my waist at all the previous week.

Weekly Results Report

Wk6 8.26.12:  Wt 222.2lbs 40 Bust (Foobs with 850ml H2O each side)  -  36 Waist    -  46 Hips
Wk5 8.19.12:  Wt 222.4lbs 40 Bust (Foobs with 850ml H2O each side)  -  37 Waist    -  46 Hips
Wk4 8.12.12: Wt 225.8lbs  40 Bust (Foobs with 850ml H2O each side)  -  37 Waist    -  46 Hips
Wk3 8.6.12:   Wt 228.2lbs  40.5 Bust (Foobs with 850ml H2Oeach side)-  37 Waist    -  46.5 Hips
Wk2 7.30.12: Wt 227.0lbs  41 Bust (Foobs with 850ml H2O each side)  -  37.5 Waist -  47 Hips
Start 7.23.12: Wt 225.4lbs  42 Bust (Foobs with 850ml H2O each side)  -  38 Waist    -  48 Hips
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  1. NancyAugust 28, 2012 at 2:04 AM

    You are amazing. Keep up the good (and hard) work you are doing. Funny one about inhaling, ha ha!

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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.