Hello everyone,

Friends I have returned to you, I "lurked & just looked" for a while after my last post, then on return to work just too hectic & energy depleting for much else on my agenda. Usual stuff, work, family life, friends,life stuff, home, all taking up my time. BUT sooooo grateful for all that "normal" stuff to keep me busy. Especially as some friends I made on this B/C journey have had reaccurences or died.

I know when it is appropriate to be grateful for my lot.

So now to why I am back to my ever understanding friends. I have consistantly gained weight since the yearly surgery after my mastectomy. I have pre-existing physical health problems, including mobility problems. The cancer treatment has a reputation for weight gain. Time off work to recover, eating too much, not able to exercise, all compoiund the problem. Pre B/C I was slim, dispite my physical limitations.

I managed to battle the initial weight gain after the mastectomy, but then further surgery & health problems limited even further my physical exercise capabilities. I am on a very low calerie diet, I am lucky to lose half a pound a week.

Does anyone else have this sort of problem? How do you cope? The image I seem to see in the media of B/C survivors is they all seem to become some sort of athlete, even super athelete sometimes. I am fed up of this, makes me feel like I should not have this problem. Like I am all to blame.

Is it just me who feels like this?

Any advice welcome.