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Time to get crackin’

*CRUNCH*

That is the sound my brain has been making these past few months (heck, maybe the last year even!)

I need a clean slate. I need to get myself together. I need to focus on myself. I want to eat better, exercise more, sleep longer, get to bed at a decent hour (hence the “sleep longer” reference), and crush this disease i have (oh yeah, that would be MS). I want to be a better everything (wife, mother, daughter, friend). It’s a lot when I think about it, but I need to get some much needed structure in my chaotic life. But to be a better anything to others, I have to be a better someone to myself.

I need, I need, I need…

My OCD kicks into full gear when I hear those words. My anxiety starts creeping up, and I wonder if I need to take some deep breaths or if I just need to dive into my personal pharmacy and take that lovely at anxiety pill.

*CRUNCH*

There goes my brain again. And so begins my journey. It’s not New Year’s, so no resolutions necessary. I just need to write and get it out in words. Only then, I might be able to pick apart my needs and wants in order to organize my private chaos.

MS to 5K?

I’d give anything to run again. Not that I was a runner… ever… but I was able to run once a long time ago.  I also used to dance and workout regularly.

Now, I just want to be able to even speed walk without limping.  I have good days and bad.  My good days are awesome and I can jog a little.  I even started participating in Zumba classes on Mondays, where I last about 15-20 minutes before my left leg starts to give out.  But then I have bad days sometimes where I am limping after just a few minutes of walking.  I am wondering if I should just keep pushing through these “bad” days and just keep walking (or limping) my way to running a 5K one day.  I mean, you’d think that if I’d keep up with it that eventually my left leg would play nice and get strong enough to allow me to be as active as I want to be.

MS to 5K, or rather Couch to 5K, seems to be something that’s been running (pun totally intended) through my head lately.

Zumba class!

Before February 8th, I couldn’t walk without a limp, couldn’t walk backwards, would lose my balance constantly, had spasms in my legs, had bone-crushing fatigue, and and would have never thought about working out, much less taking a Zumba class.

I was kicking my legs, spinning around in circles, swinging my hips, and jumping backwards for 60 minutes!!! It was brutal! I started tearing up when it was over – not because I was in pain, but because I actually did it! I wasn’t very graceful, because I still have some residual weakness in my hips on my left side and that leg fatigues easily, but at least now I have a chance at beginning to strengthen it.

My legs are absolute jello right now. I think I was probably the least graceful and least sexy Zumba-er they had ever seen!