Happy New Year!

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Been a little quiet through the holidays on "blogging" ...

What is the saying "New Year, New Me"?  Well for me it's New Year same me but I have a bunch of NODES in my neck.  So what are your New Year's resolutions that you actually stick to?  Mine is "Unsubscribing" to all email promos.  I've been doing it for years now and it's absolutely amazing!  Something simple to do every New Year's day (hungover or not) and something where the bar is not set too high where it's unattainable.

Speaking of setting bars... I'm mentally preparing to keep myself busy during treatments but at the same time stay safe and healthy.  Obviously the first one is diet and exercise.  I plan on fine tuning my plant based diet (with some cheats of course because I'm HUMAN) and really make sure I hit my strength training three times a week (obviously the cardio training comes easier to me - god I miss swimming).  Again things that keep my mind busy.  Macro counting for the food I will be fueling myself with and strength training goals so I can see my strength progress or decrease at times pending on how I'm feeling.  Of course I've thought about an IRONMAN in the summer or fall of 2021 but I think I will stick to deferring an Olympic triathlon to July 2021 and train towards that (again ATTAINABLE GOALS STEPHANIE).  The second one on the list is to start purging, tossing, donating and re-organizing (this I have already started thank god!)  FEELS AMAZING!  The third is to make sure I make time for myself.  I'm always on the GO, GO, GO that sometimes I get caught up and forget to have some me time #SELFCARE101.  Sounds like fabulous ideas right?  I thought so.  

The holidays were great!  Took my mind off of things at times (NOT ALWAYS) and was still hoping deep down that my start date for chemo would come sooner rather than later (the tentative date is 1/12). I'm wound really tight these days, BIG MOODS and still dealing with really bad headaches and TMJ (stress).  Found out a solution to most of this.. still fine tuning the kinks.  EXERCISE MID DAY!  It gets me out of the house, clears my head and it makes me sweat.  AMEN!

I think that's it for now.  Happy New Year Y'all and let’s hope for the start date of 1/12 and no more tests. 

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