Strength Doesn’t Come Back by Accident
This afternoon, I saw a post in a Myositis support group. The question was:
“Is anyone walking better or close to normal since being diagnosed?”
This is how I responded:
Yep! 💙 It wasn’t easy.
It took a lot of work—but many times I’ve gone from using a walker to riding a bike and playing golf.
It’s a lot of things, and it starts with the power of positivity. Your body is amazing—it wants to heal itself.
It’s stretching.
It’s moving.
Then exercising.
Eating the right things.
Drinking enough water.
Using things like amino acids and creatine.Lots of protein.
Avocados.
Blueberries.
Cinnamon in my coffee.
Drinking it with hot water.
Being intentional about the foods I eat.It’s so many things.
I spend so much time every day working on me—my attitude, my mindset, and the belief that anything is possible.
I go grocery shopping two to three times a week. I spend hours prepping food and reading about foods that can be beneficial to my body.
Protein matters. A lot.
I eat at least three boiled eggs a day—sometimes more.
Simple. Cheap. Easy to prepare.
It’s one of the many small things I do consistently to help my body rebuild what it lost.It truly is so, so many things.
That’s what works for me. 💪
Get to work. Fight the good fight.
When you’re sick, overweight, and out of shape, your body goes into fight mode. It’s trying to repair itself—but I think sometimes it takes it too far. It becomes too aggressive.
Then, we suppress the immune system so the body can stop attacking itself and actually begin to repair.
But once the body stops attacking, we have to do our part. We have to put in the work—otherwise, nothing is going to happen.
It’s like getting the flu. We let it run its course, and then we get back to work. We return to our lives.
But even then, it’s not easy. Weeks go by after something like the flu before we truly feel good again.
Now compare that to Myositis—or any disease for that matter. Recovery takes much longer.
Remember: you lost muscle tone. It’s not going to come back unless you build it back.
We have to put in the work.
We have to build it back.
Let’s get to work.
Let’s build it back.
Your body is amazing—it wants to heal itself.
