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Healthy eating charlatons
What really p**'s me off is how the hell do you find a proper diet without signing up and giving your email away to buying every so called dietary supplement?. It's NEVER free. It's never EASY. One day they say all fats are bad and the next they say no fats are all good, its the sugars are bad. Eggs are bad, now eggs are…
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DONE & DUSTED
Thats it.... last Chemo was this morning. Got up usual time as though I were going to work & decided yes, I feel good so harnessed up my little dog & doned the running gear & off I went... ran just under 5km & still felt good though had to get back inside to get ready to go else I might have kept going. Off to hospital for…
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Baby soon to arrive!
After undergoing 3 months of AC treatment and 2 rounds of Taxol, my long-awaited baby will arrive on 4 June! While the chemo treatment hasn't been easy, it's all been doable since I've had something so wonderful to anticipate. I know the future is going to be challenging with trying to care for a newborn and undergoing…
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New BCNA web page - Revitalise with BCNA
BCNA has just launched our Revitalise with BCNA webpage. This program was piloted last year with 113 participants during a set timeframe and is now available for you to join on any given Monday!
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Victorians - Premier's Active April program
Hello All, Here in Victoria we have the opportunity to participate in a great program called Active April. Last year over 100,000 Victorians participated. This year BCNA has our very own team. Have any of you joined up this year? Let us know.
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Fuck Cancer or Old Man Yells At Cloud
Hello ladies, new post is up, this time about how the 'fuck cancer' statement gets bandied about and what it actually means me to me. Click on the link below for the post :) http://melaniedgriffiths.tumblr.com/post/141433581452/fuck-cancer-or-old-man-yells-at-cloud mel xx
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Anyone smokers?
I did a search and neither tag word came up with any posts whatsoever. I know I am probably in the minority of people in Australia who smoke and I won the one in eight women lottery to get breast cancer but how about anyone being a smoker like me? Yes I have tried many times to stop it but as yet I have not accomplished…
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A Little Nudge Goes A Long Way
Hi Everyone, I just want to thank you all for the supportive comments you gave last week when I first posted on here. I am usually one who just sits and waits, not wanting to make waves. I was having trouble getting my breast care nurse to return my calls and didn't want to bother her. You gave me the courage to realise it…
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Breasts after conservation
Hi ladies and gents , just wanted to ask a question about getting back to normal after bilateral Wide excision and node removal , so far ( touch wood ) things have been good and I ' only ' needed radiation. My dilemma here ( and I profusely apologise to all our friends on here for whom mastectomy was the only choice ) is…
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Never leave home without your mat!
I just love this picture :) (source yoga memes facebook)
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Exercise
i live on Gold Coast and does anyone know of any yoga groups I could join
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Back in a Happy Place - no pills included
Firstly, belated thank you to all you wonderful pink ladies to allowed me to indulge, rant and "verbally" process when I needed to. I've since dealt with Centrelink as my GP was insistent that I should be on a temporary disability pension as opposed to new start (I think she's over writing medical certificates personally)…
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Beacon article - latest issue
Hi All, Did you have a chance to read this article in the latest Beacon magazine? It's a great overview of exercise for women diagnosed with breast cancer and some tips to keeping motivated. http://beacon.bcna.org.au/exercise-ask-the-expert/
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Enjoyment is the 'key'
In the two and a bit years since I finished active treatment, I have been keeping track of 'exercise' in a daily diary. Every now and again I flick back through the pages and it gives me a great sense of achievement to see all those days and days of being active. Never have I ever been this consistent with exercise in my…
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Mandalas
Colouring books are all the rage right now, but did you know mandalas have been around for centuries? For over a thousand years, people have been using mandalas to focus attention and as an aid to meditation. Mandalas are also a beautiful, creative outlet as well as a way to practice mindfulness. You can download a 2016…