Raise your hand if you’re chronically ill and have started an exercise routine just to get a flare up a month or two in and never go back to it. My hand is up! I can’t tell you how many times I did this in the early days of trying to get a handle on my health. As someone with endometriosis things usually lasted about three weeks, and then would be completely derailed by the week of my period and then lost to time. It wasn’t until I embraced the idea of flexible consistency that I was able to make a lasting commitment to exercise and building strength.

Every week I meal prep a dense bean salad for easy, cheap, and nutrient dense meals that help me reach my fitness goals. Here is the recipe for this week’s chipotle style dense bean salad!

I’ve had strange symptoms for basically my entire life. As a teen my mom would bring me to the pediatrician and wish that they would approach me the way the doctors on House do it. Unfortunately they would only ever just treat whatever random symptom I was having that day and send me on my way, never offering an explanation for where the symptom came from.