Time to resurrect this blog

So much has happened since I last posted to this blog.  I'm sure no one is reading it anymore, which in a weird way is fine by me.  I do this for me...not for others. 

My last post here was November 16th, 2010.  Two weeks later my world turned upside down. As evidenced on this blog, I was on a whole foods kick.  I'd lost a modest amount of weight - about 20 pounds, but my husband lost 30 pounds.  I cursed the fact that men always seem to lose weight so much easier. However, on the Monday after Thanksgiving in 2010, he ended up in the hospital with a blocked colon. To make a very long story short, he was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. With a large tumor blocking his ascending colon and about 20 tumors on his liver, it's no wonder he lost weight so quickly in those three months.  It wasn't the new diet at all.  In fact, I came to find out later that when I wasn't around, he was eating donuts and all other manner of food I had banned from the house! And yet he still lost weight.  Wow!

Yes, much has transpired in the following 3 1/2 years.  He's still alive, which is amazing considering where this started. 3 trips to the ER, three surgeries, and over 60 rounds of chemo later and he's still here! We've since moved from MN (where I'd lived almost my entire life) to New York City.  We've been here since December 2013. My new struggle is how to eat in NYC with the new lifestyle we have and keep it healthy.  I've gained about 5 pounds since I moved here, yet I find I'm more active here than I ever was in MN.  I thought I would easily lose weight!  NOT!

I am resuming this blog to help me be more conscious of what I'm eating, how I'm eating, and how I'm establishing my eating patterns in this new city. It's a different lifestyle for sure, and I need to figure out how best to manage it!  In addition, I'll retell some of the cancer journey.  As much as I hate to admit it, I know I'm an emotional eater and this journey has been incredibly emotional.  I can't let it get the better of me.

Namaste,
Julia