Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong is a comprehensive guidebook for cancer patients and survivors eager to maintain and regain strength, stamina, vibrancy, athleticism, and health. Cancers of all types and their treatments can be brutal. Instead of surrendering your health and fitness to this monster, fight back and control the things you can! You'll learn:
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Why healthy habits and a commitment to fitness will make your life better/easier
- How to pursue fitness during and after chemotherapy, radiation, surgeries, and other cancer therapies.
- How healthy habits enhance your chances of remission and reduce chances of recurrence
- Mental strategies for remaining positive.
- How to take control of the things you can.
- Choosing foods that help instead of hurt.
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Managing weight loss or weight gain.
- To show compassion for yourself.
- Exercises you can do in exam rooms, hospitals, chairs, beds, showers, and beyond.
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How and why to seek out supplemental services like physical therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture, mental health counseling, sexual health counseling, and more.
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To best utilize the support of loved ones and caregivers.
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How to goal set and adjust your fitness training to achieve greatness on the other side of cancer.
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Ideas for forcing joy and happiness into your life.
Praise for Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong
I’ve been an athlete all my life, and this is the most complete and useful book I’ve ever read about fitness. The four pillars are a road map to health for all and a huge tool in fighting back against cancer. All cancer patients and survivors should read it.
-- Phil Decker, Stage 4 Colon Cancer Survivor
This is a great book for our patients battling and recovering from cancer and therapy. Congratulations, Ms. Koehler, on this excellent resource!
--Lucio N. Gordan, MD, Medical Oncologist/Hematologist
President & Managing Physician at Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute
Whether you're being treated for cancer, have been treated for cancer -- or simply hope never to NEED cancer treatment -- Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong is your inspiration and practical guide. Life brings us all kinds of unanticipated difficulties, with cancer at the scarier end of that list. When you don't know how you're going to get through it, Fitz Koehler is here to remind you that "you can do hard things" and to break it down for you. No matter how hard cancer knocks you down, she shows you how to make a start, how to keep it going, and how to end up better than before. I love her approach because it's eminently practical and straightforward and because she's a survivor and thriver. Wherever you are, she's been there and climbed out. I also love it because it's for everyone--you don't have to be young, commit to a specific kind of diet, or aspire to be an elite athlete. You just have to want to live and live well. It's also fun and easy to read. What are you waiting for? Buy it now!
--Dr. Allison Grow, MD, PhD
Radiation Oncologist
Your Health Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong is chock full of information and inspiration. Fitz’s knowledge, enthusiasm, and desire for everyone to gain or regain control of their health comes through loud and clear. This book is exactly what you need to come back stronger and healthier than ever.
-- Kathleen Bieritz, Stage 2 Breast Cancer Survivor
Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong is a comprehensive how-to guide that addresses the critical importance of a healthy lifestyle during and after a cancer diagnosis. Fitz breaks down complex evidence-based, scientific facts into a patient-centered, easy-to-understand guide filled with actionable pearls on how to live your best life during and after a cancer diagnosis. This empowering go-to source will, without a doubt, motivate you to live a healthy life, move you from “sick to strong,” and help to improve cancer outcomes!
--Dawn Mussallem, DO, DipABLM
Lifestyle Medicine Breast Physician
Your Health Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong is a brilliant tutorial on how to take your health and life back after overcoming cancer. Fitz breaks it down and makes living a healthy life simple with tips on exercise, nutrition, hydration, sleep, and more! If you want to learn to thrive and not just survive, read this book!
--Tara Collingwood, MS, RDN, CSSD, LD/N, ACSM-CPT
Board Certified Sports Dietitian
Mindset and determination are important keys to achieving your best outcomes after a cancer diagnosis. Your Healthy Cancer Comeback: Sick to Strong provides a great roadmap for patients and caregivers during difficult times. Fitz Koehler’s work is filled with experience and explanation to assist all throughout the journey. Fully recommend!”
--David Kashmer, MD MBA FACS
Surgeon
About the Author:
Fitness innovator Fitz Koehler, MSESS, brings her highly-credentialed fitness expertise and cancer-crushing street cred to this book after strategically designing her own return to physical greatness. She endured 15 months of chemotherapy, 33 rounds of radiation, and surgeries for breast cancer in 2019-2020. Using her wealth of knowledge, she rebounded from sick, scrawny, and dreadfully weak to Boston Marathon finisher in just over a year. Fitz is passionate about helping her fellow cancer patients and survivors worldwide by sharing the knowledge and motivational skills that will allow them to rebuild their bodies without any setbacks.
Fitz has a master's degree in Exercise and Sport Sciences and decades of experience teaching fitness around the globe. She is a mass-media pro who specializes in communication via TV, radio, podcasts, books, blogs, and magazines. She's also a powerful and compelling keynote speaker and spokesperson who's presented for companies like Disney, Oakley, Office Depot, Tropicana, the American Cancer Society, and many others.
Known as one of the most prominent race announcers in America, Fitz serves as the voice of massive running events like the Los Angeles Marathon, Buffalo Marathon, Big Sur Marathon, Route 66 Marathon, The Donna Marathon to Finish Breast Cancer, and many others.
Fitz's memoir My Noisy Cancer Comeback: Running at the Mouth, While Running for My Life has already had a huge impact on the cancer community. It serves as a tremendous source of insight, laughter, and motivation for attacking cancer with grit and grace.