Hello fellow fitness pals, I would like to start a support blog and friend group of fellow pals living with MS and the battle of weightloss. I will begin with my intro and welcome others and friend requests to build support group. My name is Malika I am 42 years old and have had MS for 17 years but just recently reconfirmed and began taking medicine. In addition I have been diagnosed with hashimotos and require thyroid replacement medicine. As if those were not enough I broke my back in 2008 and went through 2 major 12 hour surgeries and 2 years recovery having to relearn walking, balance, and muscle training. All of this combined has lead to my weight increasing and my ability to excersize well to diminish.

With the wonderful support of my husband we have begun a better living and lifestyle change of healthy eating and small amounts of excersize to increase slowly as I build up stregnth. I am thankful that I am still able to function physically however after physical efforts I face the second battle which is dealing with MS pain and attacks backed by the renown depression the comes with it. I figure the more support we have the stronger we can get through this.