Side Effect Management on ADT

this article summarized a study that should be common sense, but is worth being reminded of. it addresses the issue of weight gain and subsequent health issues emanating from said gain, among men on ADT...

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/diet-and-exercise-limit-heart-disease-risk-in-men-undergoing-hormonal-treatments-for-advanced-prostate-cancer-2019022516083

”The study’s lead author, Dr. Stephen Freedland from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, says exercise combined with low-carbohydrate diets appears to be a promising strategy in men undergoing ADT that should be studied further. Dr. Marc Garnick, the Gorman Brothers Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and editor in chief of HarvardProstateKnowledge.org, agreed, pointing out that weight gain can be a real problem for men that endures even after ADT is discontinued”

Prato,
It appears you edited the post? Earlier I thought you wrote that men who walked 30 minutes daily and had a low carb diet lost 20 pounds over 6 months while on ADT?

Anyway, that closely follows my experience. I walk 70 minutes 4x weekly. I'm not low carb, but have reduced my intake of my regular diet. I have lost 25 lbs and I'm pretty close to my proper weight.

Losing the weight has been surprising easy. I did some investigating, and reduced appetite is listed as a possible side-effect for Xtandi. Who knows?

Mattam, I don’t remember 🙄. I think I’ll blame that on my age rather than my low T from Lupron 🥺😂.

I don’t recall editing it I thought I only edited the title of the thread. But I could be wrong

My husband has lost 20 pounds with low carb diet and exercise since July. It does work but he's worked really hard to get the weight off. I'm very proud of him! The doctors - MO or GP - haven't said a word though about it - probably because with cancer, loosing weight can be a bad sign. He was disappointed that they didn't comment.

carbs are evil, stop eating them.

The only place I was warned about weight gain on Lupron was on this forum.

I kept seriously exercising, long walks, and closely watched my diet. Result....no extra lbs. Self control and personal discipline count for a lot IMO.