My Story

Eating Clean

Eating clean mostly means eating food that's close to how it grew: vegetables, fruit, whole grains, beans, nuts, and simply prepared proteins — with less ultra-processed food, added sugar, and sodium. It's a pattern, not a rulebook, and one meal never ruins it.

A word on alkaline foods

Some people build part of their eating around "alkaline" foods — leafy greens, cucumbers, broccoli, avocado, citrus, herbs, and other plant foods. Your body tightly regulates its own blood pH no matter what you eat, so the benefit people notice usually comes from what those foods are: mostly plants, high in fiber and water, low in processed ingredients. If that framing helps you eat more of them, it's a reasonable place to start — as part of an overall healthy pattern, not as a treatment.

Setting Your Own Goal

There's no magic number of steps. The right goal is the one you can actually hit on an ordinary day — and then repeat tomorrow.

• Start where you are. Track a normal week first, then set a goal a little above your own average.
• Make it repeatable. A short walk you do daily beats a big one you do twice a month.
• Let hard days be hard days. Treatment days, bad-sleep days, grief days — moving a little still counts.
• Adjust out loud. Tell someone your goal, and change it when your body tells you to.

This page shares personal experience and general wellness information. It isn't medical advice — talk with your care team before changing how you eat or move, especially during treatment.