Well, hey, folks!  This is a big week!  It is the anniversary of my first podcast a year ago.  So exciting!  I can’t believe I have done 48 episodes – at the start, I couldn’t imagine doing the first four, and now I am done 12 times that!  I know many of you feel like we are old friends at this point, but for the people who are new, I want to tell you how this all came to be.  As most of you know, I am a radiation oncologist, and I have been in practice for more than 20 years.  About 5 years ago, I was struggling in my life.  After having years of fertility treatments, and then ultimately, 4 kids, I was slowly gaining weight.  I thought this was from not exercising and really loving food.  I was fighting with my kids, and always irritated with my spouse.  I was feeling burnt out at work.  I blamed most of this on being too busy and feeling sluggish from my weight.  I knew I needed a change, but...

You are listening to Best Life After Cancer, Episode 8.

Hi, and welcome back. It’s such a pleasure to get to spend time with you every week. I always look forwards to sharing my thoughts and knowledge with you – I feel really honored that you are spending this time with me and wanting to hear what I have to say. I’d love to hear your thoughts, as well, and you can interact with me on the Best Life After Cancer MD facebook page to ask questions or leave comments. It is a way you can let me know what you are struggling with, and then I can answer there or or in the form of a future podcast! For many cancer patients, I find that weight gain is a real challenge after treatment ends. I think for some, this is partly due to hormonal changes including cortisol, or the stress hormone, partly medication based, and partly due to wanting comfort, and eating to feel better. Last week, we did some work on physical aspect of weight loss, reviewing some of the hormones that...