Sunday, August 26, 2012

August 26, 2012 - Sunday - Fluffy Chix Low Carb Menus

Weight - 222.0 lbs
JUDDD Day 14 - MD (Medium Day - 900-1000cal range)

Nutrition Totals - 1139Cals, 77.4gF, 30.1gC, 7.5gFib, 86.3gP, 22.6gNet Carbs

Wake - 6:00am

Breakfast (11:30am) - Hot Water
3 med Softboiled Eggs
7 Grape Tomatoes
1 tsp Olive Oil

Lunch (1:30pm) - Hot Water
2 cup Chicken Soup with Veggies (2c Bone Broth, 3oz Chicken Breast, 1/4 Calabacita Squash, 1/4 Yellow Squash, 1oz spinach)

Dinner (6pm) - 3 Tbsp Peanut Butter
2oz Cheddar
1/2 med Granny Smith Apple
1 serving Pork Rinds

Bed - 11pm

Notes - I slept better than I thought I would. I don't think I even woke up once during the night. I never thought I would say this, but I like keeping a schedule. It shouldn't be any big surprise though, being the person who has the scale obsession. I like to micro-manage. :( It can't end well...so maybe I need to practice letting go and letting God!

Asthma continues. I can tell by the way my chest and throat/bronchial tubes feel. No need to take peak flows, I can tell they don't feel substantially improved and all that the peak flows do is manage to inflame my throat. I will know if I need to go check them.

Will have another easy day and will try to catch up with computer work. No appetite again today. That's not news either. Weight is still up but tending in the downward direction. But with all the meds I'm taking, I'm surprised to see it go that way. Surely if I was eating more it would. It generally does.

I forgot to mention, I'm also gonna be following a yeast reduction diet for the next couple of weeks to try to get this asthma stuff knocked out. I have full-blown thrush (yeast infection in my mouth). Part of that is due to the fact that I'm just recovering from cancer still and I had a pretty bad infection during treatment. The other part is from using the 500/50 Advair Inhaler. It's powerful stuff and inhaled steroid. So yeast loves that crap. :(

So toward that effort, I will be eating low everything. Technically I shouldn't even be having leftovers but that's not gonna change right now. Maybe when I feel better. But here's what I'm eliminating:

Coffee
Aged Cheeses & Dairy, including butter (limited yogurt and yo-cheese, fresh mozzarella etc is ok, but I'm gonna try to avoid it entirely)
Mushrooms
Root Veggies
Onions
Garlic
Ginger
Spices except kosher salt
Vinegars (except Bragg's Unfiltered ACV)
Fruits & Sugars including artificial sweeteners

So there ya have it! I'm basically on induction food. Very clean, no-nonsense induction food which is fine. The hardest part will be avoiding onion/garlic and spices oh and black pepper! I'm assuming I can use fresh herbs and that I can also use green onions but I will need to look that up!

Ha! I'm such a nut! I no sooner make a decision to limit my foods in order to beat a fungal overgrowth and what do I do? I make a very poor choice this afternoon.

My appetite returned this afternoon. I must be feeling better! I ate a huge SusieSnax and now I'm so fully I'm almost nauseated! I hope it doesn't make my lungs feel bad again. One of the things about steroids (even the inhaled ones for me) make me ravenous. I actually gained over 100lbs while on Advair 500/50 - about 12 years ago. Only back then, I didn't know about carbs and controlling them. So I will just pick myself up and dust myself off and start all over again!

The good news is now I've consumed all my calories for today, It's only 5pm and I'm done for today. Haha CRR in action.
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  1. NancyAugust 27, 2012 at 2:17 AM

    Not sure how I was not signed up for your blog, and too bad for me. :o( But catching up now. I am just so surprised how little is on a medium JUDDD day. I will have to follow your journey carefully to see what you eat. I was thinking of going back to it, but boy that is not much food. (whine, whine, whine, from me) Trying basic Atkins right now for a few days. I need a food AND attitude adjustment, so I will continue to read! Thank you for sharing.

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    1. susietAugust 27, 2012 at 5:12 AM

      Hi Nancy, thanks for commenting here and following the blog! Welcome. :)You have to click on the "Join This Site" command over on the right side of the page in order to join the menu blog to follow it and get updates. Then you have to Join This Site again to follow the Fluffy Chix Cook Blog. It's low-tech *blush*.

      I have to be careful about how I reply to people here, because I don't want to give anyone the impression that I'm defensive about food choices or quantities. I started keeping a journal here in order to encourage enquiries and commentary so that this could be useful to others who are also interested in diet experimentation.

      This week is fairly atypical for me in that I've had a bad multi-week asthma cycle and now have thrush. I'm taking breathing treatments 4-6 times a day now and they just crush my appetite as does the swish n' swallow that's loaded with sugar I might add - that I take for the thrush. :( No options there either. They don't have a sugar free option.

      I do JUDDD a little differently than most people and do medium days differently as well. I feel better and more in control on most DDs if I limit my eating to one normal meal a day or at the most, 1 light normal meal and another very tiny meal. That way, by the time nightly dinner rolls around, I'm done with the "deprivation part" and can feel like I've basically gone through the hard part and have 1-1/3 days of normal eating ahead of me.

      It's a psychological game to be sure but it seems to work well for me. I tend not to have huge hunger buster episodes in the mornings or at lunch these days. Hunger tends to occur around the 3-4pm mark. (Oh and I also follow an eating window for CRR Reset just to add to the melodrama! :) )

      Medium Days are treated kinda as "heavy DDs". Yesterday was completely wonky cuz I started craving cheese and I'm trying to do an elimination diet cuz of the yeast. I ended up giving into it and eating 3 Tbsp of Peanut Butter and 2 ounces of Cheese along with pork rinds and a half a GS apple. That was a calorie bomb snack-meal. I ended up being so full that I didn't want dinner - which was a good thing, since I was already over on calories for the MD!

      If I hadn't eaten that SusieSnax, I coulda had a huge amount of calories to have a normal dinner and I think the food quantity would have looked like "more". (Oh and don't underestimate my cup of soup at lunch, lol! It felt like I was eating a hearty bowl of chicken vegetable soup and it was all I could stomach at the time cuz I'd just done a breathing treatment.)

      Again, I hope you don't take this as me being defensive. I'm not feeling that way in the slightest and hope you will continue to discuss or debate or question my food choices. I would love to get great discussions going here and don't exactly know how to accomplish this!

      :hugs:

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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.