Intermittent fasting

Radiation, just like surgery, does lots of damage the body needs to heal from, although at a microscopic level. I've never seen any data on it, but I suspect you need more food for healing during and for perhaps 4-6 weeks afterwards. People are often slightly anemic during this time, so foods with iron content might be beneficial, and protein to repair body tissues.

Other than during and immediately after radiotherapy, you do need to be careful with calorie consumption when on hormone therapy.

Someone having RT same time as me was losing weight. He was told to eat more cakes and biscuits.

I made a note of my weight at the planning scan. I was recording my weight daily anyway, to monitor what the hormone therapy did to it. My breakfast size was adjusted each day according to being over/under my scan weight. It varied from -1.1kg to +0.7kg compared with the scan day. Actually, I was trying to maintain not just total body weight, but also fat/muscle ratio. Probably OTT, but maybe every little thing helps a bit with treatment effectiveness and minimising side effects.

I am on a Herbalife Nutrition course of 2 Protein shakes a day and a normal meal at night. Cutting out alcohol except for the odd occasion like tonight following my good PSA results. Snacks are also Herbalife snack bars which are very nice. I’ve done it before successfully so will be interested to see how it goes when on HT. I am 3 months since finishing RT and have put on 8Kg since then, which I’m not happy about. Follow my journey for updates ….

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Decho

Really interested to hear of your diet plan. It's got to be the way forward. I too had put on 8kg, of which I have now shed 6kg but still not happy. It's got to be the HT. 

I also note in a different post your comment about knees. Snap. I sometimes can hardly stand. As this was never previously an issue, I put it down to HT.

V