Sometimes it doesn't matter what you do

Sometimes, it doesn't matter what you do

So if you follow me, you know that:

1. I love to work out, hence the name TreadmillTreats. 

I write this blog every day on the treadmill.

2. I am always real in writing this blog. I am brutally honest and refuse to sugarcoat anything.

In saying all that, I must be honest in what's going on in my life now as I've always been. So I eat right, mostly fish and veggies every day. Now don't get me wrong, I do eat pizza and other junk one day a week as I feel we need a balance in all things in life. 

I exercise 5 to 6 days a week. I do 1 hour on the treadmill and 30 minutes lifting weights. On the weekends, I usually ride my bike, walk on the beach, or Rollerblade. I have added back in yoga for my mental state and to go to church for my soul. To say that I live a healthy, well-rounded life is not an understatement, so when I went for my check-up and the doctor informed me that I have osteoporosis, I was shocked.

How? Isn't lifting weights and eating right one of the ways not to get it? Well, so I thought, but because I have the 3 main factors of getting it, that is not enough. The three factors are: 

1. Is that I am white 

2. Is that I am not overweight 

3. It is because I went into early Menopause at 42

Who knew? Now, I am faced with making decisions about what treatments I need to do right away to try to grow my bone back...Wtf?? I have exercised my whole life, I lifted weights my whole life, 

I am close to the same weight I was in high school. Are you frigging kidding me??

It's like the person who never smokes but gets lung cancer or the marathon runner who dropped dead of a heart attack. Hello? Where does this make sense? It doesn't; it just is what it is, and we have to deal with it, like it or not.

So, for the first time in my life, I am worried about my health. I must now research and get my mind mentally prepared for injecting myself every day for the next 18 months to see if this treatment will work. I know there could be worse things in life to deal with, and so yes, I am grateful, but I did all of this, so I can be that old grandma doing marathons at 85, not with this. 

I have tried to prevent illness by stopping smoking years ago by eating right and exercising. I have done all the right things, and still Bam! Here it is, too bad! 

So, just like everything else in my life, I will deal with it. I refuse to give up or get depressed. I will face it, and I will overcome it with an attitude of possibility and positively just like everything else.

So today my friends remember life will throw us some curveballs when we least expect it. Life will knock us down and knock the breath out of us, but we must have the mentality of a fighter, my favorite metaphor.

You might have been knocked down, but you are not knocked out. Get back up, keep fighting, and don't give up. Yes, things may be different but embrace the change, we all may have to go down a different path we didn't expect to but you never know what will happen, all you have is how you react to it.

"Be the change you want to see."

@TreadmillTreats