Post holiday post.

Long overdue for an update, I know.

The holiday was great. Too short of course, but great, nevertheless.
It was so much fun having the family with us. We had three flats between us, so we all had our privacy, and freedom to do what we wanted, when we wanted. But we still ended up spending loads of time together. It is a holiday I will always remember very fondly.

The only thing that plagued me a little was my eyes, which have gone all optical neuritisey on me again. And my hips were sore, so I couldn’t walk on the beach as much as I would have liked, but I sure didn’t let it spoil my stay there.
I ate like a pig; had plenty of waffles and fast-food, which was nice in its place. But I was more than ready to go back onto my healthy eating plan when I got home.

Actually, I don’t know why I’ve been buggering around so. I know that eating properly, and fasting routinely will improve my health greatly. So I’ve committed to stay on it now, and be a good girl. I’m going on a fast this coming week. I will take it one day at a time, but hope to achieve 7 – 10 days, as recommended by Paul Bragg, fasting guru and my own personal role-model. I look forward to experiencing the results.

I’m also completely committed to rehabilitating my poor sacro-illiac joint. I’ll do whatever it takes, really. It’s been nearly a year of pain and discomfort, and I’ve had enough. I’m planning on going to my chiropractor again, a physiotherapist and a biokineticist. Also for a long-overdue x-ray. I intend buying a book on Pilates, and attending classes if I have to, but I will get this right!

My cousin lent me a very good book on Pilates, incorporating ‘chi’ principles, in a kind of ‘east meets west’ approach. It is really well-written. I never really knew the difference between ‘abdominal breathing’, ‘chest breathing’, and ‘thoracic breathing’. But this book explains it so well, with the aid of simple exercises and visualization techniques so that anybody can understand it. Brilliant.Also illustrates very succinctly the location of the pelvic floor muscles and the ‘core’ muscles. I know this applies strongly to me, because apart from having abominable pelvic muscles (read: bladder control), my core muscles (as a result of the MS) have gotten very slack. Now, the core is a band of muscles that go around the lower, or lumbar’ back, protecting it from injury. So, in conjunction with having used a walking aid for some months, the slack ‘core’ muscles have not been doing my back/ hips any favours. No wonder I have problems. But at least now I can do something constructive about it, knowing what the cause is.