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Ok, so how many of you have stepped on the scale for 2012 and vowed you will do differently? I for one have not, too depressing if you ask me but I can make modifications that I know will help in the long run. I am not a big eater anymore by any means. I often will eat a side salad and either share and entree with Ron or cut it in half right as soon as it is served and ask to have the rest boxed. Even if I don't eat it later, I paid for it and either Ron will get it later or worse case scenario, the dogs will. They have developed tastes for salads and vegetables and even mashed potatoes. Exercise is not my favorite word although I like to walk, I won't walk outside when I have to test traffic and play chicken with them or if it is too icy or snow too deep so that leaves it for inside or something even more silly is that while I am cooking or doing something else like being a homemaker, I will be dancing or running up and down the cellar steps. Quite the sight, I might add! Now the question that comes up alot is about alcohol. There are many different suggestions in this and it does carry alot of calories so I always will drink water in addition to whatever ever liquid libation I am taking in at the time and I might reduce it by adding Fresca or something else with less calories and less volume of alcohol. That then leads me to increasing fruits and vegetables in my diet and I go for trying new things. I don't need alot but there are so many fruits and vegetables in the markets that we never were able to get growing up so why not try one each week? I like star fruit and avocadoes and I even tried kumquat. It is an adventure or at least I will make it an adventure. I have to fool myself as I am tired of the same old things and something new is fun and challenging, although brussel sprouts still won't make it into my mouth as I despise them. In fact that is what I named my cancer when I was diagnosed so that tells you how much I really loathe them. I will never profess to having all the answers or maybe even any but I say we have to give the old college try and step out of the box or you will always get what you always got and however the rest of it goes. You maybe only lost one pound or you only did one thing better but each step brings you closer and you don't fell like a total failure if you try. So come on folks, step up and step out. Smile, knowing that we are all in the same boat and make it a great day!
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AuthorMy name is Sue Kilburn and I am a clinical nurse breast cancer educator at the Yolanda G. Barco Oncology Institute in Meadville, Pennsylvania. Archives
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