I’m training for my first post-treatment 5k race at the end of April, and it has me thinking about food, fuel, and nutrition. For longer races, part of training is taking on board fuel you’ll use during a race, but this time around, my focus is on (re)building muscle in the weeks ahead to optimize performance on the day. Slowly, I’m mapping the factors that go into solidifying my base post-treatment. It also has me thinking about access to healthy options, especially as food prices rise in the current economy.
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Building blocks for what’s next: Nutrition and healing
It’s definitely a weird feeling to go from running 10-15 miles/week to having a restriction of no running for a minimum of 3-4 weeks. But that’s the reality of recovery from a robotic hysterectomy. I feel remarkably better than I expected, but I’m very conscious that my body has a major healing project underway. I am hungry – all the time – something I usually only associate with the significant mileage build leading up to a race.
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Race report: My 72 hours post-op
I’ve read that your body uses as much energy through surgery as it does during a marathon. True or not, that’s been a useful benchmark for the last couple of days since I was discharged Thursday evening.
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What the heck is cancer metabolism?
Google the signs and symptoms of endometrial cancer, and you’ll discover ‘losing weight without trying’ in the top three or four. For me, it was one of the ways I knew something wasn’t right in my body.
Running from hysteria 