I may not be the strongest
I may not be the fastest
But I’ll be damned if I’m not trying my hardest!
I may not be able to go to every exercise class I book, working hard in classes tests me the next day!
Hard choice but sometimes I just have to say to myself, I’m being kinder by letting my body rest, for now!
Some people may think it’s quitting, I know different!
HAPPY MS AWARENESS WEEK!
Yesterday I had a very productive day! Managed to get out in the garden 1st thing and gave it a quick spruce around, on form in pilates and then shopping after!
I’m so on it today!
Time for a rest before body combat class later! I’m not saying I’ll do all of it but being there is better than not! Right!
Yes I have MS, yes I do all of these things to the best of my ability because by doing these things I am looking after myself!
Happy MS awareness week!
Today marks the start of MS awareness week in the UK!
I started it at the weekend though!
What an amazing day I had on Saturday! 2 hrs Fight Klub workshop! Non stop punching, kicking, squatting, bopping & fun fun fun!
I would never have believed you if you’d have told me 2 years ago that I would be doing the things I do now!
ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! YOU JUST HAVE TO BELIEVE TO ACHIEVE!
Today I did my first Yoga class and I absolutely loved it! Let me just take this in for a moment!
Yep! Proud!
I’ve wanted to try yoga ever since I started Pilates! My physio always said stick with Pilates, keep the movements fluid. Why!!! I loved it!
Yes, definitely proud!
I stepped out of the box, out of my comfort zone, made the move, did something entirely different to my normal!
I have to say I loved it that much that I booked another 5 sessions!
Thank you Louise for your patience with me & for agreeing to not only have a selfie with Myles the MS-UK mascot but to agreeing to take progress pictures of me for the next 5 (or more!) sessions!
Thank you to Rach for passing Louise’s details on to me as well!
And thank you to everyone in my life for believing in me enough for me to believe in myself!
I have now copied this speech as it’ll do nicely should I ever win an Oscar! ;)😂😂😂
I’ve had Deb at home as it’s Monday, her day off. The Only class I didn’t attend was the MS exercise class. Like I said in yesterday’s blog, even though it’s all seated exercise it would still be too much for me to do!
Because Deb was home that was a good distraction for me to not keep checking the time, although I did have a few cheeky time checks. No comments on facebook about it either, I can’t help but think I wasn’t missed. Silly of me right! I just don’t like to miss out on anything! Right or wrong, that’s who I am!
We had some visitors this afternoon, another good distraction from the pain!
My Dad and Stepmum popped round with their 2 sight hounds, Ava the Saluki & Finly the Lurcher.
They have only had Finly for 6 weeks so him and ours are still getting to know each other. All fun and games! A great distraction from the pain I’m still getting in my legs and spine when I’m standing.
A boring hour and half whilst Deb and Adam went off to Fight Klub! I’m not a happy bunny, I’ve got my new boxing gloves and can’t try them out! Humph!
I have to be prepared for my mood tomorrow! I’ll be missing Pilates with Hannah Bailey and then Body Combat in the evening with Gill Cathcart!
What on earth did I used to do before exercise took over my/our life!
I know I wasn’t as happy when I didn’t go to the gym or all these classes!
If we all just did a little bit more to look after ourselves would we be living in a happier world?
Waking DebbieRahRah this morning in the way of a film!
If your not familiar with this method let me explain in brief, I’ll start by saying 2 things…
1: DebbieRahRah is my life partner, my partner in crime & a fully grown adult who believes in the saying ‘act your show size’
2: We live in a bungalow. This means all on one level and not so far for the sound to travel…
How to get DebbieRahRah up the kind & gentle way…
Choose a film, preferably a cartoon. Put film on and turn volume up loud, louder, louder still.
Now, stand back and watch, or do like I do and carry on with jobs in the kitchen which is directly off the lounge.
In no time at all and very quietly, a sleepy DebbieRahRah will creep out of the bedroom, usually hugging a pillow and heading for the sofa where she will settle herself down to watch the film!
Today’s choice of film… ‘Up’
It worked, but I forgot one crucial thing about this film! How incredibly sad it is within the first 20-30 minutes!
I’d settled myself on the sofa along with Deb to watch the film, when I turn to look at her she has a red nose and tears in her eyes! Oops! Epic fail!
After apologising profusely to her and explaining how I’d forgotten the start of the film, but remembered how funny it is with the dogs, she said it was ok because she loves the rest of the film!
Note to self: when putting this film on again, forward the first 30 minutes to avoid sadness!
It’s hard to remember the days when I first had to take time off work because of my MS. I have come such a long way from that person that used to sit feeling sorry for herself, not doing anything to change the way she felt, just feeling more and more depressed!
Those days are real, they did exist, I was that person! So easily I could become her again! This procedure I have had done on my lower spine is to help ease my pain I feel, to gain this relief I have to endure a multitude of pains. The physical pain which comes in so many different ways, from moving incorrectly to even just standing. Then there is the emotional pain, some of this pain I feel may be hard for you to understand. Although you can’t see the physical pain itself, you can in fact see the physical effect of it in my face, in my eyes. The emotional pain will at times be so much easier to know when I feel it, you see I suffer from terrible mood swings. Almost like a teenager unable to get their own way, when I can’t do something that I have been used to doing its painful!
It was an easier day than I expect yesterday! The first day of recovery, unable to take part in my usual Pilates class at 11am. Even though I missed it, I was ok with it, that made me feel proud. The rest of the day I slept on and off.
The evening wasn’t too bad either. Deb came home from work, she sorted the dinner, homemade spaghetti bolognase that I had lifted out of the freezer and some pasta to go with. This made it easier for me as I wasn’t able to stand for more than a few minutes and therefore unable to cook the evening meal.
The exercise class I couldn’t attend last night was ‘Clubbercise’ I have only been to this class twice and, if I’m honest it’s a bit fast for me with a lot of side ways moving, which I have a major issue with. The class has also changed rooms, it used to be in an area that had direct access to outside, which was ideal for me to cool down quickly. The class is now in the ‘Dance studio’ the same room that I do Pilates in. Excellent because it has air-conditioning which means I keep cooler whilst exercising, the downside is that when I walk out of the room the temperature difference is too extreme for me, especially if my core temperature is high from cardio exercises.
This is a constraint of my MS, I can’t adjust to differences in temperature like my partner does. I can’t cool down quick enough when needed and vice versa, I don’t warm up quick enough! For these reasons I am apprehensive about going to Clubbercise again and didn’t mind that I couldn’t go!
A harder day today, missed out on a class called ‘PiYo’ a mix of Pilates and Yoga. A class that I wanted to try from the moment I heard about it and also a class that I was very nervous about trying! When my friend told me he had been to a class a few weeks ago, I was really sad that I hadn’t gone with him. He came around to my home to tell me all about the class and how hard it was, when he told me he thought it would be to hard for me, I booked in for the next available class straight away.
I wasn’t well enough to go to the class last week because of my MS. It hadn’t occurred to me then that I wouldn’t be able to go today, but I have to be good especially after all the work I had done on Thursday.
After my first PiYo class I couldn’t stop thinking about it, I practised some of the harder moves that I could remember, until I could no longer remember the easier option that the instructor ‘Hannah Bailey’ had showed me. That’s the thing with my MS, I forget things easily and quickly!
I was so looking forward to going again! I guess I just have to wait a little bit longer. Hopefully I’ll be so much better and stronger when I go to my second class!
Saturday evenings are my favourite! As much as I love going to all the exercise classes with Deb and our friends, I do miss the us time that we rarely get now. Saturday evening there aren’t any classes so we get to chill together snuggled on the sofa with our 2 dogs ‘our kids’
As far as pain goes and how my back is after the procedure, today I can stand for a little longer, around five minutes. Enough time to wash half of the pots in the bowl, the pain was starting to increase by then so I had to sit down and rest.
Baby steps! I’ll soon be fighting fit again!
DON’T GIVE UP!
One of the t-shirts I bought today TWO sizes smaller than this time last year!
I think I could actually go another size smaller… THREE sizes smaller than this time last year! Need my personal clothes shopper ‘DebbieRahRah’ to give me here advise before I risk going down to a size 14!
*It’s been 6 years since I was that size! My pre MS diagnosis size!*
Thank you to every one that has supported me & continues to support me on this physically & mentally challenging fitness journey that I’m on!
It doesn’t feel like it or look like it after a lot of the exercise classes I do, especially cardio, that’s the hardest, but I am loving the new energy I have and mostly the new friends we have!
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Today I hoovered up hundreds of star confetti from my birthday, hoovered dog hair out of the bath & hoovered up all of the tiny stones from the garden that end up in the kitchen!
All of this was after sleeping through half of the day!
I once saw a post on Facebook from someone advertising her time. A lady that loves horses and was looking for horse owners to let her help out at their yard. She offered to groom the horse, exercise it and even do the dirty jobs like muck clean the stable!
Basically she was advertising herself to do the same job as a groom who would cost a whole lot more than she was asking because she was offering to do all the work for free!
Why don’t cleaners offer to work for free!
All I ask is for someone to offer to do all of our housework for absolutely no payment because they love doing it so much and can’t get enough of their own!
Not going to happen is it!
Didn’t think so!
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