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Introduction Text 2017-03-31 After another few setbacks and cancer scares, I'm back and more focused than ever on regaining my health, stamina, strength and abilities. I am still reaching for comfort memories and goals: skating at night on the canal, attending dance and music festivals, hiking in the forest, biking on the paths under a full moon along the river...exploring life with confidence instead of caution and fear. I am restricted to easy exercises for now, until I get back into shape (I use a walker to get around these days, and am starting to use hiking poles). I am so happy to have returned to SparkPeople, with its incredible wealth of resources and support. You are all full of awesome!

I am adopting a healthier lifestyle to rediscover the daring, adventurous person I use to be. I suddenly realized that if I can face cancer three times, I can certainly deal with the 'bonus' of excess poundage it's left me! * My SP Start Date: Sept 9, 2010 * To feel confident enough in my strength and stamina to resume hiking and biking * To challenge myself to do one new activity per month * To generally eat nutritiously, log, and pay attention to how I'm reacting to food (emotionally and physically)

@ Jan 2, 2014: Blogged about the 12 things I'm reaching for * In 2014 - Reading and putting into practice Julia Cameron's "The Writing Diet" (I had put in on hold) @Dec 20, 2013: recovery from surgery (again) * Start incorporating gentle exercise * carbs are not my friends * sodium is not my friend * sugar - in any of its forms, natural or not - is not my friend

I guess these are more like my milestones: * January 10, 2014 - Doc says no cancer found, only pre-cancerous cells. WooHoo - no treatments required! * December 6, 2013 - removal of uterus, fallopians, ovaries because of pre-cancerous cells. Not sure if my "cancer free" status starts over now... * February 13, 2013 - 25th Wedding Anniversary!!! * December 3, 2012 Two years cancer free (which I count from the end of my last treatment for IBC). * Nov 25, 2006 - total thyroidectomy, for thyca

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. All glory comes from daring to begin. Life tastes better than food.

Add a Link SeaWave Spring Starfish - EDT Solvitur ambulato I am who I chose to be. Stronger. Leaner. Further. Fierce. Because I love... Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right.
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