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I also suffer with multiple sclerosis and the last few years I haven't been able to walk too well or do much at all. I don't want to gain any more weight because I was always an active person and now that I'm not I don't want to keep gaining weight like this. So basically I eat as little as possible because I'm afraid. I do have a stationary bike I purchased a few years ago because of this but I've been battling slight depression and I'm just not motivated to even do that. But I will start to do at least five minutes every other day until I gradually build up to 30 minutes every other day. I also get a lot of constipation because of my medications and lack of moving around. I take 60 mg of Cymbalta every day for my depression and 20 mg of Copaxone injections daily for the MS, baclofen 10 mg twice a day as a muscle relaxer, Cymbalta 25 to 50 mg a night for insomnia, 500 mg of Naprosyn upon waking, 400 mg of Dulcolax twice a day for the constipation and senna before bed for the same thing. Wow in reading this I realize what a mess I am, I know I can't let it get me down because I can do a lot of things if I only had the motivation to do it!! I stopped smoking November 17th. And that was really a huge task for me, I've been smoking for about 34 years of my life and I just turned 51 December 9th. I'm proud that I did it but of course I mostly did it because I felt that the secondhand smoke was getting my daughter sick and if anything ever happened to her I'd never forgive myself not to mention that when I finally stopped I also had an upper respiratory infection and I couldn't breathe. I don't drink and I don't to drugs for 7 years on February 15th, so I'm trying to be as healthy as I can just need to learn to eat properly I've always had issues with nurturing myself. I have two children whom I loved and nurtured as best I can but he always put myself in my needs last. Now it's time for me to learn to put my needs and nurture myself in order to be happy and productive as I can be.
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171.0 lb
Lost so far: 9.0 lb.
Still to go: 36.0 lb.
Diet followed reasonably well.
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losing 1.1 lb a week
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