I surround myself in positive influences, positive people, proactive people!
I never thought, ever, for one minute, that I would be able to say ‘I accept my life and I like where I am in life right now’
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Just gotta totes love my amazing friend & pilates instructor, Hannah Bailey. Did I mention she’s my ‘Fight Klub’ instructor too!
Photo took last night as she arrived for Fight Klub after she’d just taught ‘Clubbercise’ What a combo!
Yesterday she went from teaching adults with learning difficulties to aqua to pilates to clubbercise to the next class, ‘FIGHT CLUB’
She’s awesome, she’s mean! 👊💥
Then after class, she’s the wonderful Hannah!
Somewhere in all that madness she’s also a Specialist in pregnancy and sports massage! You just can’t imagine it can u!
5 years ago I would never have thought that I would be living this life with these friends and loving it!
I always loved different sports and activities but then MS and life stopped that!
MS will not stop me living my life any longer! Even if it means changing what I do, which I have and do you know what, it’s amazing!
It’s friends like Hannah that inspire me & give me my energy!
Everyone needs a Hannah! 😄
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How flipping proud & immensely annoyed do I feel right now that I’m not going to Fight Klub!
DebbieRahRah is still going which I’m really pleased about & also she won’t be alone as one of our close friends Adam is also go with her!
It’s Adams first time at fight klub so this is for him…
*Proud because I’m letting my body rest after my Tysabri infusion
#bekindtoyourself
*Annoyed because MS can get in the way of so many things it’s just so gawd damn unfair!!!
#mssucks
Just love he human body & how amazing it is….
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Time to get my Mojo kit out of the cupboard!
⭐ Pilates mode is on!⭐
Low on energy today so ‘Gently Bently’
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Today I went to an exercise class purely for people that have MS. This class is funded and run by the MS Society at my local Leisure Centre. It’s on twice a month and I go to it whenever I possibly can.
I’ve been going to these classes on and off since the summer. They are challenging, tiring and great fun!
The class is taught by Laura, a wonderful fitness instructor I know from a class called ‘Forever fit’. This class is for seniors and is on after the Pilates class I attend on a Wednesday.
All of the exercises in the MS class are done whilst sitting down, which means that everyone can take part, no one is excluded from these classes!
Who’d have thought marching your legs and lifting light weights with opposite arms at the same time would be so confusing!
Who’d have thought lifting your legs whilst tapping your feet forwards, centre, back, opposite leg and repeat would be so confusing!
It’s like patting your head with one hand and rubbing your tummy with the other! The brain has to do two things at the same time with both hands, you have to really concentrate.
So let’s now imagine everyone in the room is tapping the floor with their feet at the same time, great!
But then…
What, what, someone is out of time! Now I’m getting confused because the beat is changing. It was then that I realised the lady wasn’t tapping out of time but her right leg had started to tremor and was tapping uncontrollably. Now everyone had lost their concentration, we all started to laugh as the lady with the tremor tried to control it!
It’s moments like those that are priceless, when a group of people all with the same debilitating disease can laugh at it. When we see the funny side to our ‘uniquely different’ debilitating disease!
This is where my other saying for ‘MS’ comes from, ‘ManySmiles’
If you know anyone with MS (if you have MS yourself you’ll ‘get this’), take notice next time you are in the company of these wonderfully MegaSpecial people. See how much they smile! Hear how much they laugh! Then notice that it’s normally at ourselves!
I had a lovely card off one of the ladies at the exercise class today, unfortunately it’s in the car and with the temperature somewhere near 0°c I’ll leave it there and share it with you tomorrow! All I’ll say is, it’s beautiful! Its so lovely that I needed to hug her directly after reading it!
That was my workout done for the day!
Deb got home from work at 17:45 had a cup of tea and went off to the gym! What a difference in us both!
1: We now exercise regularly
2: We eat healthily
3: I only did one work out today!
Yep! What a difference! I hung up my Wonderwoman suit! I said to myself (and Deb of course) when we got back from our lovely holiday that it was definitely time for me to apply the brakes, so that is exactly what I have been doing! And I feel proud for doing it! I hurt more because the hormones released when exercising help me manage my pain but, I feel proud!
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This is so true! I am now realising that for nearly 5 years I sat back quietly doing nothing whilst I literally grew into my ‘new’ MS skin! (I wasn’t literally quiet though! I have never have been shy of letting my feelings known!)
I took the step once I had got to know the new me!
It really was an amazing step to take for me to do what I had to do to become the better me!
Take your time though, you & only you will know when your ready! When you do know the time is right I promise you that you won’t be disappointed at all!
Fasten up though because it will be a bumpy ride!
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Can only mean one thing…
Another 
As always my Pilates instructor knows how to motivate!
I’m gonna feel it in the morning! Seriously worth it! 👊💪
I cannot recommend this highly enough to everyone, especially people that have MS!
Pilates is the perfect exercise for me as it challenges my mind as well as my body and I get to say to my MS ‘today I am in control of my body’
This was me today!
May have pushed myself a little too far in pilates as the MS fatigue took my voice & I had to sit for a while in my car with the air conditioning on before I could drive home!
Felt so good though, was well worth it!
I’m proud! Nailed the ‘100’ as well! (I think I did anyway ;))
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Living life the MegaSpecial way! 