Can I loose weight on tamoxifen? Peri menopausal too but really need to loose 2 + stone to be a healthy weight following breast cancer

[Sweeper123]

Breast cancer and tamoxifen

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Welcome to the Couch to 5k forum for new runners.

I suspect that you did not intend to post on this forum. If you click the My Hub icon at the top you can search for more appropriate communities in which to ask your question.

Best wishes.

[TheAwfulToad]

I don't see why not. Tamoxifen can cause metabolic derangement in people who are eating bad diets and/or who are already metabolically ill, but the simple answer to that is: eat a healthy diet and you should be fine.

The main issue there is that, having been subjected to five decades worth of complete nonsense from the dietetics brigade, most people no longer have any idea what healthy eating is. The persistent meme is that if there's no fat in it, it's healthy. This is not even close to being true, and fat-free diets are one of the main drivers of our obesity epidemic (because a fat-free diet inevitably contains a biologically-intolerable excess of carbs ... which will make you fat via several interrelated mechanisms).

Base your meals on fresh veg, meat, eggs and dairy, avoid sugar and stodge, and don't be afraid of fat. Eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full. You'll lose weight and do yourself a lot of good, healthwise.

Wishing you a speedy and uneventful recovery.

[Curlygurly2 Graduate]

Speak to your oncologist. I had a fair amount of difficulty getting anyone to take me seriously about my weight gain, even my specialist BC nurse said it was because I'd stopped smoking. My oncologist could see how upset I was about the weight gain, and finally someone to agree it was that that made me gain weight. and told me to stop taking it. That might not be appropriate for you, but you could try another brand.

I eventually got the weight off by following a Keto diet, cutting out most carbs especially processed ones.

[shsoga Graduate]

Hi Sweeper, I have just come off tamoxifen after nearly 10 years. About a year into my treatment I decided that I needed to do something serious about my weight (I was 24 stone at the time). Over the next 18 months I lost 14 stone, just through eating sensible food in sensible quantities and starting to exercise (I had always hated movement of any kind!).

I over-shot a healthy weight for me so increased it slightly from my lowest point and have now held relatively constant for the last 7 years. I would be lying if I said it was easy to keep it off but I have managed it, and actually losing it in the first place, even on tamoxifen was not too hard, it just took a bit of dedication and focus.

While IannodaTruffe is undoubtedly right about there being other forums perhaps better suited to your question, C25K has been a huge part of keeping the weight off for me, so maybe we will see you back here when you make this part of your weight loss plan!

Happy to chat more by PM if that would help, good luck with your journey 🤗