Has anyone ever had a change in the effect of Prednisone before?

[FinalBossMatt]

It seems to be no longer making me into an eating machine.

Since I've had cancer for 3 1/2 years I've been very fortunate enough to almost zero effects from medicines except for some days where I am tired a lot. I'm sure being around 320lbs doesn't help things any haha.

I was able to get my weight down a lot to a slim trim 260lbs from fasting until stress got it back up again. Long story why.

When I started Prednisone that didn't help things any because I wanted to do was eat. Doc in Thailand raised it from 5mg to 10mg because he thought it might slow my PSA from rising. Back here in America my new Doctor said it didn't do anything so I went back down to 5mg.

Just recently over the past month other than sometimes feeling a bit nausiated (very small, scale of 1-10 I would be a 0.5) I don't get any desire to overeat other than the compulsiveness you get from time-to-time being this size.

The thing that helped me to break through the barrier to lose weight was fasting for about 36 hours at a time. I mean come on, I have enough energy storage so it couldn't hurt to replicate the process again.

If I feel hungry I'll cover myself by having coconut oil in chicken broth and put some salt in it to cover myself for all the pissing I'm doing.

Of course some walking will help too.

I'll keep you guys updated. I refuse to believe that even though my hormones are wacked out that weight loss, especially a good 100lbs, isn't possible. It would be nice to be back down to at least 220lbs. I've lost a hell of a lot of weight before, and I can do it again.

It's a good bonus that my Cancer Doc is a Hematologist too.

[BrentW]

Go for it, FBM. I am managing to keep my weight just under 200 lbs, but that involves a drastically reduced food intake and lots of exercise (I was assigned a physical therapist to help with that). I am trying to find a way to get my weight down a little. Oh what fun!

[j-o-h-n]

I just went from 260 to 240 (from 1/13/2021 till today 3/28/2021) using my own POW diet.....

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Sunday 03/28/2021 6:32 PM DST

[SPEEDYX in reply to j-o-h-n]

Ineffective....just water weight!

[SPEEDYX]

Yes but maybe we could have won the war sooner

[SPEEDYX]

Yes Mr Bond!!!!

[youngigor]

My UO suggested 8/16 fasting. I eat whatever but only from noon to circa 7 pm. Experienced significant hunger for 1st week or 10 days but not now. Am losing approx 1 lb/week - started at 282 now down to 248, since mid Aug last year.

Probably weight loss will taper off, but this approach is sustainable. Am still am omnivore, "cheat" to some extent by having just big salad for lunch but this is offset by a cornucopia of fried seafood the next day or so.

Have been on "holiday" from zytiga since mid Aug, w/ T recovering nicely, so some or much of the weight loss may be attributable to T levels and more walks.

Hope you find a plan that works for you