Stress.

So this is all about my stress.  My stress fractures, to be more direct.   Here is the history of my stress fractures...and all the rest of my broken bones in all their gory glory. 

1991 - broke my left arm balancing on a basketball in the basement

1992 - broke my left arm again being catapulted off a teeter-totter at girl's camp

-normal? kid broken bone stuff....and then the not so normal stuff.....

1994 - stress fracture on my right foot walking at school - spontaneous (hmmm....should've been a clue about 20 years ago that my bones weren't doing so hot....ooops)

March-ish of 2011  Stress fracture of the right pelvic pubic bone and left tibia. 
 (Overuse, over training  issues)

Jan. 2012  Bilateral Stress fracture of the sacrum - both sides of the sacrum triangle bone.   (Over training exacerbated by breastfeeding and crappy nutrition.....and lack of combined strength training...... oops.....)  

So there you have it - too many broken bones for a young spring chicken.   I'm just a body waiting to crack.  I have major risk factors for osteoporosis, so my diagnosis really wasn't a surprise.  I've always been on the thin side, I'm white, I have a family history of it (mom and sister currently have osteopenia,) I've been running a million miles,  I tend to over train running too fast too far and too soon, I have PCOS which has made me have ammenorhea - think 6 periods in 8 years, I'm breastfeeding, I have always hated hated milk,  have never supplemented my calcium, and never even  took my prenatals through 3 pregnancies, unintentionally I haven't had the best nutritive diet for an active lifestyle.......So, I was a disaster waiting to happen.  My hope is to stop the fractures, learn how to eat for healthy bones, regain my fitness, keep running, and find a better balance for an active lifestyle.   That's a tall order, but I know I can fill it.  This is my blog of accountability and journal of improvement.   Hope it all goes up from here.