I have been so busy, and I have other blogs I have been writing on instead of this one. I should at least post something here more than I am. Life has been keeping me on my toes that is for sure.

I started the Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle summer challenge on June 9. (BFFM) It is an online challenge where you are held accountable with hundreds of ordinary people trying to change their life style to eat healthy, clean foods and burn fat with weight training, cardio, and build lean muscle at the same time. It is tricky, but not impossible and the people all encourage one another. We have to put our weekly stats up, so that is motivation in itself to try to meal your goals. Number one thing is putting your goals down on paper and having specific goals. Having clear set goals is a key and then everything else falls into place because you have a daily plan. I find it very helpful to have people cheer you on and you get to cheer them on too.

One extra added challenge is a Million Steps in 98 days. I decided that this would be easy with my dog walking business and pet sitting. It actually turned out to not be so easy. In order to reach that goal in 98 days, I need to at least do 10,204 steps daily without fail. Walking dogs does not get it, since some of them are old and putter and sniff. Not really walking as such. So when I am done with my clients, I still have to walk myself and get my steps in. Everyday is different depending on my errands, clients and chores that I need to do. I find the real challenge is I get very fatigued and wonder how I am going to do it. I have to include weight training too, which I have scheduled three times a week.

I am still recovering from all my treatments and surgery issues and fatigue still plagues me often. Talking to other cancer survivors, it is the normal course of the recovery and takes a year or more to get past the fatigue. It hasn’t been a year from my treatments, so I am actually doing pretty good considering.

I also joined the SurviveOars officially. I filled out the paperwork and paid the dues, but still need the release form filled out by one of my doctor’s. I will do that this week.

I still have my reconstruction surgery that won’t be scheduled until later this year. I hope I am healing well from everything, because that is why the plastic surgeon wanted to wait a few more months. I wasn’t healed enough he said. I still have my Medi-port, but it has been used for my infusions (Zometa) for building my bone density from the side effect of the aromasin inhibitor I have to take for 5 or more years. When I have my surgery, my port will come out then.

So in the meantime, my goal is to get stronger and lose the weight I gained before the surgery does get rescheduled. I had lost a lot of strength from surgery and treatments, and I want to be fit again. I am working on it now and I think I do see some progress in my strength.

I have been busy with my pet clients, so life has been getting back to somewhat normal whatever that means.

Well, enough for now. I will try to remember to do an update more often than once a month. As I said before, I am blogging on other sites, so I neglect this site. I have to update on my BFFM to be in the challenge, so it keeps me busy too.