Well this is the start of my journey through weight loss. If you have not read any of my blogs before I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer 12/29/2005/ I underwent chemo therapy, radiation, a lumpectomy, bilateral prophylactic mastectomies and multiple reconstructions.
I have done everything medically and surgically that I could do in order to attempt to prevent a recurrence. With my particular type of breast cancer; triple negative; the rate of recurrence is higher and the survival rate was lower so I want to see what I can do to help me be here for my husband and three incredible kids that we adopted.
When I ask my oncologist what I can do to reduce my recurrence rate the one thing that I can do is to lose weight.
Before I moved to Texas I had been very active, I would do the Jimmy Fund walk every year for 5 years in a row and it was a 32 mile walk along the Boston Marathon route to raise money for kids with cancer. I used to go out dancing then I had a severe car accident and totaled my car and messed up my back. The pain in my back was chronic and got worst so when I moved to Texas I ended up getting an artificial disk in my lower spine. Now that my back is better I should have gotten up off my behind and started losing the weight that I gained after the car accident but I did not.
I should have stopped the weight gain at this point but I did not. A year after my back surgery we adopted our kids and then a few years later I received the cancer diagnosis. I am not trying to say that I gained weight because of the cancer because that would be a lie but I have gained a lot of weight in the last 13 years and I am not happy with myself.
I joined Weight Watchers once and I quit because I hated standing in a room with a bunch of strangers while I was being weighed. I am starting a new weight loss journey with you and I hope that this will work. Maybe if I am putting this all out there maybe I will be able to stick this weight loss and exercise plan.
Fingers Crossed