I work with women just like you.
You’ve finished treatment for hormone-positive breast cancer and are ready to take charge of your nutritional health, but you don’t know where to start.
You feel overwhelmed trying to figure out what to eat, what to avoid, and how to get a handle on the panic you feel about the connection between your diet and recurrence.
No diet regimen is too crazy to try (if it will prevent recurrence), no food rules too strict to implement (if they’ll keep your eating in line), and there’s no way in hell you’ll eat anything with sugar in it, ever again.
Right.
Until all that food deprivation, restriction and oppression robs you of your ability to eat with even a modicum of joy.
Listen.
Getting more strict with your diet doesn’t mean more freedom from recurrence.
Just this week I helped a client connect the dots between her rigid food rules (to protect her from weight gain and breast cancer recurrence) and her tendency to binge eat.
She thought she lacked willpower, discipline and focus.
I pointed out that perhaps she lacked trust and belief in her ability to give her body what it needs because she’s too focused on all of the foods she “shouldn’t be eating”.
She thought that made sense, in a way that was sort of like a lightning bolt strike.
I know you’re struggling with your food. You wouldn’t be reading my blog if you weren’t.
The tendency to approach every meal and snack with an iron-fisted will to “just say no” seems reasonable, given what you’ve just been through.
But the truth is, that’s not practical. It’s not sustainable. And it’s not any fun.
Use the tips below to guide you today, and if you feel you need more support, I invite you to consider this your invitation (and divine intervention) to explore working with me in my Peaceful Plate program.
I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of any better time than OCTOBER (aka breast cancer everywhere month) to make the decision to finally end the relentless cycle of food panic, stress and guilt.
Now, here are those “get started” tips:
- Limit or avoid alcohol
- Examine your drinking habit. Is there room for improvement, or are you comfortable where you are? You have to include alcohol (or not) in a way that’s realistic for YOU; not based on what you think you “should” do.
- Aim to eat a plant-based diet
- Plant-based doesn’t mean vegan. It doesn’t mean vegetarian. It’s honestly not even a diet “title”; it’s simply a recommendation to put more plants on your plate more often.
- Reduce your intake of added sugar
- Reduce doesn’t mean eliminate. That’s impossible to do (although, many a woman has tried. . .and failed, miserably). Are you a “sugar addict”? Can’t stay away from sweets? There’s usually a reason for that, and I recommend getting to the bottom of it to give yourself the sugar freedom you deserve.
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This information is for educational purposes only and is not intended as medical advice. Please consult your dietitian or doctor for guidance specific to your needs.
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