Eating my way to health living with my cancer

It’s been a good couple of days, pain levels seem to be really low, it’s great, but every now and then I get a twinge somewhere and my immediate thought is it cancer, I can’t help thinking like that. Once you have cancer it’s with you all the time despite doing my best to forget about it. Is it getting better, I really can’t believe the change in me since Christmas, but I’m still not letting my guard down waiting for it to attack me from a new angle, let’s see.

I’m really serious about my diet now, I believe that I need to eat as healthy as possible so the cancer gets starved, there is a lot of research about diet and cancer and almost all of the radical remission stories the survivors changed to a plant based diet. It makes sense when I think about it.

Breakfast is a bowl of shreddies with a handful of frozen blue berries and summer fruits with oat milk , lovely lovely

I made a fantastic anti cancer smoothie today , I just threw a handful off greens, raw broccolli, chopped carrots, tumeric, ginger powder , an apple, 2 Bananas a tangerine with the peel, 2 scoops of huel powder 1 tablespoon of organic wheat seed and some other seeds, topped it up with water and blended it for about a minute. The result was a light brown sludge , which tastes far better than it looks. It was actually the best smoothie I’ve made so far. I make one every lunch time.

Tea time is mostly vegetables with some kind of pasta brown rice or beans. Last night I knocked up swede and carrot mash brocolli and fake sausages, the sausages were actually really tasty.

I had fake meatballs the night before with spaghetti and roasted vegetables , the fake meatballs were a huge thumbs down from me and the girls, it’s hard to describe something that’s pretending to be a meatball but just isn’t making the meatball status, my daughter described them as round and that’s about it.

I will continue to try and experience different foods as I continue my cancer journey tomorrow I’ve got a couple of leeks and a red cabbage to transform into a meal in one way or another , I was thinking about chucking a few potatoes in the pot and Wiz up a soup. You never know what you are going to get in my kitchen, I’m pleased to say that most of the stuff passes the test.

I’m reading a book called Chris beat cancer he’s also done a Ted Talk on the subject, it’s fascinating and scary at the same time. The statistics around chemo therapy are not great and to think I nearly chose chemotherapy a few months ago, chemo will be my absolute last resource untill then it’s hormone therapy diet positivity and some help from the universe. I’m starting to really feel I am winning

The problem is in this battle I can’t see the enemy, I don’t know what it’s doing to me day to day, is it getting better or worse, this is the life of the cancer sufferer or the cancer thriver . I only have the results of a blood test once per month to give me and idea of what it’s doing.

I’m planning to get back to my normal life , slowly slowly I’m going to see if I can work. My thoughts are that if I pay no heed to it, ignore it and live my life a more healthier way then it should get fed up and go away, it sounds like wishful thinking but yet again the survivors in radical remissions all just got on with their lives if they could.

I know it’s not going to be easy but going back to some kind of normality is essential for me. The more I sit at home particularly now the house is just alone with me and my thoughts untill the late afternoon. My thoughts are good at the moment but that can change easily.

Sing for your health

Yes singing is another way of getting rid of the blues , ok Alexa play some cancer busting tunes please. Singing is a good distraction when your thoughts are moving to the dark side. I wonder why my neighbours on either side are selling up (that’s actually true) and if it’s down to my soprano I can’t honestly blame them , even the cats and rabbits hide away.

When the bad thoughts come knocking on come Alexa , we all need ways of distracting the mind from walking down the wrong path.

There are always different ways to cope with this situation I’m building up an awesome arsenal of self defence against the dark side of my mind, it’s a formidable fortress right now but that can change so quickly

Speak soon

Woody