Hi Caya and Christine,
I have been exploring this issue too. Like so many aspects of breast cancer, there is no one situation or one single way for everyone to deal with stubborn weight gain. I do think there are changes in the provision of medical care that would be more productive -- including providing genuine informed consent about the reasons for possible weight gain prior to treatment, rather than leaving us all to wonder what
we aren't doing right.
Regardless, diet and exercise are important. I posted about this in the nutrition section where there has been an ongoing thread about this, and here is my most recent post there:
link:
http://her2support.org/vbulletin/sho...096#post225096