Tag Archives: Multiple Sclerosis

Exercise the ms away

I’m trying to exercise and diet my Multiple Sclerosis away into remission. I am feeling better and more energetic with better diet and exercise overall.

I have pseudo-Swanked before a few times, but never stayed rigid to it. I am now determined to be strict with it.

I started Swanking today. Made a superb oven baked chicken tonight – no fat, no oil. I already have my Swank friendly lunch packed for work tomorrow.

I completed a 30 minute workout tonight! I actually accomplished 200 crunches and am looking to get up to 500 a night. Also, I’m working on getting some legs that I can proudly show off this summer. If this keeps going well, I may try my hand at jogging on a treadmill and maybe a bit of P90X stuff. Who knows?

Nine out of ten pairs are telling me “NO!”

It’s great when you have a closet full of nice clothes that you are totally looking forward to wearing once the weather warms up.  Just simply thinking about the weather getting warmer after the insane winter we’ve had here in the Midwest, is enough to make anyone smile.

However, when you look at your stack of jeans in the closet and nine out of the ten pairs scream at you when you are trying to pull them up past your thighs, you wonder who washed your stuff on the hot cycle.

I’ve been meaning to workout again, especially since I can physically handle it better now following my procedure in February.  But life mildly sidetracked me, in the form of the “Man Cold”.  You know, the type of cold that every man gets and proclaims to be the worst sickness they have ever experienced, lying on the couch moaning about how awful they feel.  Crawling up the stairs to get to bed.  Yeah, that type of cold… My husband likes to call it hospital-grade pneumonia.

Anyway, my boys have had this “Man Cold” for over a week and I now have the dreaded thing. Guess my jeans are just gonna have to wait until either I stop eating so much ice cream or until I get my act together to beat this illness so I can get my butt in gear to burn off some winter calories.

I wonder if my phone has an app for this? Heh.

Starting LDN again

This is my second time starting LDN. I had to stop LDN last July because I was getting pounded with steroids due to the frequency and relentlessness of my relapses last year, every MRI showed a very active disease process.
I was on Copaxone at the time (which obviously was doing nothing to slow my relapses) and my relapses were one right after the other and then I was switched to Avonex. I was in such a funk.
But now, being liberated Life is so much more colorful! And I feel now is the time to get the benefits of LDN again.

1.5mg LDN taken tonight – now going to bed… goodnight!