When muscle-wasting disease showed up - I dropped an alarming amount of weight in a short amount of time.
This was not healthy weight loss, this was muscle dissolving off bone.
In addition to the weight loss, I lost function.
I was the lightest I'd ever been and, yet, was unable to shift my tiny self in even the smallest ways.

When muscle-wasting disease showed up - I dropped an alarming amount of weight in a short amount of time. This was not healthy weight loss, this was muscle dissolving off bone. In addition to the weight loss, I lost function. I was the lightest I'd ever been and, yet, was unable to shift my tiny self in even the smallest ways.

Episode 078: How Do You Manage Your Weight And Chronic Illness? Underweight

Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain?  Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations.   We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions.  My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard.

I have this belief that: If health is the absence of disease, and wellness is the presence of wholeness;  whether or not I'm ever "healthy" again, I can work work toward my wellness, my wholeness.  

Curious?  Join me where you listen to Podcasts, for a few moments of Chronic Wellness.

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Are you one of the millions living with a chronic illness or pain? Our diseases may be very different, but we have many of the same experiences, obstacles and frustrations. We are all working for a better quality of life knowing that pain and limitations will be our traveling companions. My name is Annette and I'm the host of Chronic Wellness, a brief, weekly, podcast where we talk about it all: sex, self-care, mental heath, loss of identity, anger, how to navigate health care and have less days that suck so hard. I have this belief that: If health is the absence of disease, and wellness is the presence of wholeness; whether or not I'm ever "healthy" again, I can work work toward my wellness, my wholeness. Curious? Join me where you listen to Podcasts, for a few moments of Chronic Wellness.

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