When I first received this cancer diagnosis....I have to be honest here....one of my first thoughts was "Awesome: I can eat anything, because I'll need all those extra calories to counteract the demonic CHEMO-monster looming on the horizon." Truly....this was in the back of my mind. The tiniest of silver-linings in that ominous black cloud. Granted, it was not my very first thought (but certainly right behind throwing-up and losing my hair). It made placing that 610-calorie Marie Callender's Chicken Pot Pie in the microwave all the easier. But now, I'm busted.
Although I will be forever grateful to the cosmos for sparing me the rigors of chemotherapy, I now have to (Doctor's orders no less):
1. Exercise (daily, in fact)
2. Eat limited red meat and more vegetables...and go organic on all
3. Lose 20 pounds
4. Drink water
5. Stand, not sit
In addition, the daily renegade-cancer-cell-killing drug, has, as one of it's many side effects: weight gain! In fact, during these first 5 days that I've taken this stuff, I've gained 3 pounds! Some would say that the celebratory filet mignon, loaded baked potatoes, Halloween cupcakes, nightly popcorn and medicinal Cabernet have been contributing factors...obviously, these are just opinions, and not facts. Just like the "debate" on global warming.
So, to save my life.....I've:
1. taken away my office chair and installed a standing desk.
2. made "infused" fruit water and have a glass always at hand.
3. taken a small loan to buy our all our groceries at Whole Foods.
4. walked across the street to my gym and pedaled a bike that goes no where.
5. weighed myself each morning, through tear-stained eyes.
Those of you who already enjoy this new-fangled "active-lifestyle" thing are surely rolling your eyes at my perception of this new trial.......I wonder how many calories that burns?
Love.
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