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I can’t wait for this surgery to be behind me! Only a few days left. At 1½ years, this process has taken much longer than I expected and I’m so ready for it to be a distant memory.

One of the things that I have stayed away from during this adventure has been my regular workout routine. I miss it and am eagerly awaiting to be cleared by my plastic surgeon to get back to it. After my last exchange in September ’13, I got that clearance a month out. About the same time I began using the silicone scar-reducing gel and we all know what came next. Ever since then I have been scared to overdo it, so I just haven’t done anything.

I’m not planning on seeing my good ol’ buddy Tony Horton the day after surgery, but I do plan on seeing Casey! Casey Eischen is a fitness expert and nutrition coach that is certified in training women who are recovering from breast cancer related treatment or surgery. She created a great post-mastectomy exercise program that I did after each one of my surgeries (see below). Casey also founded Foobie Fitness as a guide to help women not only prepare and recover from treatment or surgery, but also to educate us on how we can all make small improvements to help live a cancer-free lifestyle. Today I got my Foobie Fitness tank. I am ready!

Foobie Fitness tank

As with starting any diet or exercise program, always consult with your doctor.

Post-op resistance training

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Level 3 exercises are here!

I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts, that I began doing simple range of motion exercises while still in the hospital bed on the day of the prophylactic bilateral mastectomy. I was following Casey Eischen’s program. Casey is a fitness expert and nutrition coach that is certified in training women who are recovering from breast cancer and related treatment or surgery.

If you have not yet seen Casey’s first video or want to learn more about her, see: Post-op exercises or Foobie Fitness.

Here is the next video in the series with level 3 exercises. It is for those that are at least six weeks out from their mastectomy and includes more stretches plus a great resistance training routine.

As with starting any diet or exercise program, always consult with your doctor.