Deborah Alexander
Your 30-Day Personalized
Nutrition Planning Package

Profile

• Name: Deborah Alexander
• Age: 56
• Weight: 161 lbs
• Health context: client-reported (see Safety Note)

Her Food Pattern

• One main meal per day, finished before 5:00 PM
• Organic foods only
• Very-low-carbohydrate, no-added-sugar, no-refined-starch pattern
• No chicken, no tilapia, no shellfish

What This Month Nourishes

• Strength, protein, and steady nourishment
• The rivers of the body — hydration all day long
• Calm rhythms: gentle movement, deep rest, quiet breath
• Clear questions to bring to her care team

🌿 Her Complete Protocol Handout

This nutrition plan is the food half of Deborah's journey. Her full Mayan Botanicals handout — daily herbal rhythm, brewing steps, tracker, and Coach Prince — lives at
deborah-alexander-protocol.pages.dev

Protein, First and Always

Every main meal is built around a generous protein anchor — wild-caught finfish (never tilapia), organic eggs, or organic turkey (Confirm with Deborah). During cancer treatment the body's protein needs often rise; the National Cancer Institute notes many people need extra protein and calories to hold strength. Eat the protein portion of the meal first on low-appetite days.

Fats Carry the Calories

With grains and starches off the plate, olive oil, avocado, nuts, seeds, coconut, and fatty fish supply steady energy so a single daily meal can still be adequate. Do not trim fat from these recipes without dietitian guidance — on this pattern, fat is fuel.

Vegetables Do the Quiet Work

Non-starchy vegetables provide fiber for bowel regularity plus potassium, magnesium, folate, and vitamins C and K. They stay on the plate on purpose — this is a very-low-carbohydrate pattern, not a no-vegetable pattern.

Hydration, Gently

Water, plain team-approved herbal tea, and the chia-lemon cooler keep fluids up without juice or sweetened drinks. Individual daily fluid targets are Pending oncology dietitian confirmation — kidney, heart, blood-pressure, and treatment factors change the right number.

What We Deliberately Left Out

No added sugar or caloric sweeteners (including honey, maple syrup, and agave), no "sugar-free dessert" framing, no refined carbohydrates, grains, bread, pasta, cereal, flour products, potatoes, corn, rice, quinoa, juice, or sweetened beverages. And no fasting, cleanse-fasting, or severe calorie restriction — those are unsafe to self-prescribe in this season.

Numbers Still Pending

Exact calorie, protein, fluid, sodium, and micronutrient targets require her height, labs, kidney function, medication list, and treatment plan — they are marked Pending oncology dietitian confirmation rather than invented here.

Week 1 Prep Session (60–90 min, ideally Sunday)

• Wash & chop: cabbage for two steam-downs, broccoli florets, greens into containers, soup vegetables
• Cook: boil 6 eggs; bake 2 salmon fillets; start Ital stew double batch (freeze half)
• Sauces: lemon-tahini jar; olive-oil-lime dressing jar
• Fridge windows: cooked fish 2–3 days · cooked vegetables 3–4 days · boiled eggs 4 days (in shell)
• Don't batch too early: avocado, salads, and fish you plan to eat after Day 3 (freeze instead)
• Low-energy backups on hand: sardine tins, eggs, frozen stew portion

Week 2 Prep Session (60–90 min)

• Wash & chop: ratatouille vegetables, peppers for stuffing, cauliflower into rice (or buy riced)
• Cook: eggplant lasagna (4 portions — 2 to freezer); ratatouille double batch; boil 6 eggs
• Sauces: verify tomato-basil sauce label; make a jar of curry-coconut base
• Fridge windows: lasagna 4 days · ratatouille 4 days · curry base 3 days
• Don't batch too early: fresh mackerel — cook the day you buy it
• Low-energy backups: frozen lasagna portion, canned salmon, broth + egg ribbons

Week 3 Prep Session (60–90 min)

• Wash & chop: salad greens, slaw cabbage, soup vegetables, snack sticks
• Cook: salmon cakes (freeze 2); turkey-vegetable soup big pot (freeze 2 cups); boil 6 eggs
• Sauces: olive-oil-lime dressing refresh; lemon-tahini refresh
• Fridge windows: soup 4 days · cakes 3 days · dressings 1 week
• Don't batch too early: composed salads — assemble the same day
• Low-energy backups: frozen soup cups, salmon cakes, avocado-egg bowl

Week 4 Prep Session (60–90 min)

• Wash & chop: steaming pumpkin & okra, herb salad, lettuce cups
• Cook: thaw Week-1 frozen stew and Week-2 lasagna portions into the calendar; boil 6 eggs
• Sauces: tapenade check (label), fresh lime-oil jar
• Fridge windows: same safe windows as above — label containers with dates
• Don't batch too early: stuffed tomatoes and cucumber boats — same-day dishes
• Low-energy backups: sardines, seaweed snacks, chia pudding jars

How It Works

Send questions to [CONFIRM SUPPORT EMAIL ADDRESS]. Expected response window: [CONFIRM RESPONSE WINDOW].

Subject-line format:
Deborah — Day 12 — question about salmon cakes

Good Questions for Email

• Recipe swaps, portion questions, and shopping-list help
• "This texture isn't working — what else fits?"
• Batch-cooking and storage timing
• Making a recipe work for taste changes or a tender mouth

Not for Email — Call the Right Team

• Oncology team: symptoms, side effects, weight loss, fever, swelling, eating problems that persist
• Pharmacist/oncologist: anything about medications, herbs, or supplement interactions
• 911 / emergency room: chest pain, trouble breathing, fainting, uncontrolled vomiting, or anything that feels like an emergency

Recipe Modification Request Template

Subject: Deborah — Day __ — modify recipe __

Recipe number: ____
What isn't working (taste / texture / energy / ingredient): ____
What I have on hand: ____
Any new guidance from my care team: ____

Week 1

Subject: Deborah — Week 1 check-in

Meals completed: __/7
Favorite meal: ____
Hardest part: ____
Appetite/energy this week: ____
Question: ____

Week 2

Subject: Deborah — Week 2 check-in

Meals completed: __/7
Any tolerance changes (taste, mouth, stomach): ____
Batch cooking — working? ____
Question: ____

Week 3

Subject: Deborah — Week 3 check-in

Meals completed: __/7
Weight trend note: ____
Which swaps did I use: ____
Question: ____

Week 4

Subject: Deborah — Week 4 check-in

Meals completed: __/7
What should Month 2 look like: ____
Anything for the clinician checklist: ____
Question: ____

The Flex Structure

4–6 small eatings spread across the day instead of one meal — each anchored by protein. Example: morning chia pudding (B6) · midday broth sipper with egg (B14) · afternoon smoothie (B5) · early-evening soup cup (L14 or L5) · bedtime-window snack only if the team advises evening intake.

Best Flex Foods

• Blended soups: L5 cauliflower, L10 broccoli-almond
• Broth + egg ribbons: B14
• Smoothie: B5 · Pudding: B6
• Soft plates: B10, L15, D2 broth-first
• Freezer stash: turkey-vegetable soup, lasagna portion, salmon cakes

Flex-Day Rules

• Protein first at every small eating
• Sip fluids between (not instead of) eatings
• Small portions, no pressure, repeat often
• Track what worked in the daily tracker
• Report ongoing poor intake to the team within 2–3 days

Deborah's First Five Steps

1. Book the review: bring this package (and the separate clinician checklist PDF) to her oncologist, an oncology registered dietitian, and her pharmacist.
2. Confirm the pending items: one-meal pattern, very-low-carb pattern, supplement table, fluid guidance.
3. Answer the "Confirm with Deborah" items: turkey? dairy? berries? smoked fish?
4. Do the Week 1 shop and the 60–90 minute prep session.
5. Begin Day 1 — and use the tracker from the very first evening.

What the Clinician Checklist Covers

• One-meal-per-day approval · very-low-carbohydrate pattern approval
• Calorie & protein adequacy · hydration and any fluid restrictions
• Kidney, heart, blood-pressure, electrolyte, and diabetes considerations
• Current medications · the full herb/supplement list · potential treatment interactions
• Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation timing · food-safety precautions
• Symptoms that require plan modification