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Having lost 88 pounds over the past 15 months (17 more to go), I'm really loving eating well and exercising-and wearing smaller sizes!
I actually have (undiagnosed as of yet and would like to keep it that way) MS---just "several" lumps in my head. I also have Crohn's, diagnosed last September. So I got a two-fer!
I didn't think I had it in me to eat better in order to lose weight. I didn't think I'd have the energy, frankly. Taking it one day at a time, 5 pounds at a time, I now have sooo much energy that I drive everyone crazy.
I haven't had a flare-up of the MS for several months. I think in large part because I stopped with the grains and sugars and because doing some form of exercise every single day, I've discovered, keeps the inflammation down. If I take a rest day, I wake up with a bloated face, 4 pounds heavier, and MS symptoms rising. So I walk for several miles, slowly, on bad days. And it works a treat! Never would have thought it.
I'm lucky that I live by 10 miles of open space desert here in Albuquerque. I run and walk and poop all over the desert-it seems to be a perfect place to exercise with Crohn's.
I've recently started a Meet-up group for New Runners/Slow Trail runners, and we meet 2x a week. So far, so good. Have made it back to the house before I humiliated myself. I have no qualms about saying, "I'm just going to duck behind that there cactus, you go on without me." But Crohn's is SO IMPATIENT sometimes. That's why I like running alone. I can stop anytime at a moments notice.
However, being around actual real breathing people while I'm hiking, taking yoga classes and running, has made me want to seek out getting my guts under control.
I'm so used to cutting out things out of my diet now, because of the weight loss, that I don't mind continuing to hack out the rest of the bad things that are getting to me. (I'm following the "Specific Carb Diet" now. I lost the weight with calorie counting and a regular old diet of 1400-1700 calories.)
Anyway, I just wanted to say hi in this forum because it's a topic near and dear to my little old heart.
I actually have (undiagnosed as of yet and would like to keep it that way) MS---just "several" lumps in my head. I also have Crohn's, diagnosed last September. So I got a two-fer!
I didn't think I had it in me to eat better in order to lose weight. I didn't think I'd have the energy, frankly. Taking it one day at a time, 5 pounds at a time, I now have sooo much energy that I drive everyone crazy.
I haven't had a flare-up of the MS for several months. I think in large part because I stopped with the grains and sugars and because doing some form of exercise every single day, I've discovered, keeps the inflammation down. If I take a rest day, I wake up with a bloated face, 4 pounds heavier, and MS symptoms rising. So I walk for several miles, slowly, on bad days. And it works a treat! Never would have thought it.
I'm lucky that I live by 10 miles of open space desert here in Albuquerque. I run and walk and poop all over the desert-it seems to be a perfect place to exercise with Crohn's.
I've recently started a Meet-up group for New Runners/Slow Trail runners, and we meet 2x a week. So far, so good. Have made it back to the house before I humiliated myself. I have no qualms about saying, "I'm just going to duck behind that there cactus, you go on without me." But Crohn's is SO IMPATIENT sometimes. That's why I like running alone. I can stop anytime at a moments notice.
However, being around actual real breathing people while I'm hiking, taking yoga classes and running, has made me want to seek out getting my guts under control.
I'm so used to cutting out things out of my diet now, because of the weight loss, that I don't mind continuing to hack out the rest of the bad things that are getting to me. (I'm following the "Specific Carb Diet" now. I lost the weight with calorie counting and a regular old diet of 1400-1700 calories.)
Anyway, I just wanted to say hi in this forum because it's a topic near and dear to my little old heart.
