A little background: Next week will be my 9th anniversary with MS. The first 6 years were fine, year 7 knocked me down every 3 months. I swore I would get healthy and was furious that I did not take advantage of my ability to move and lose the weight before MS played with my balance and numbed the bottom of my my feet and finger tips. I finally was able to change from Rebif to Copaxone. Made a huge difference, the MS fatigue finally broke. I decided that I would start watching what I ate and did well the first 9 months, then winter set in and brought 10 of the 39 pounds back. Between the change in meds (to Copaxone) the increase in the anti-anxiety meds my weight has been at a very hard to budge point. I have sworn to bust my butt this summer and get down to a size 18 so that I can finally reward myself with a cute, short, highlighted hair style. I was so excited to find this group.

MS makes working out a challenge for me because if I overheat my eye whites out and my muscles become cement like. I have just begun water aerobics and that has been awesome. I have been wondering if changing my workouts to more water based (aerobics, water boot camp, vortex, etc.) and not just doing seated cardio (standing cardio creates cement legs and makes getting off the machines quite interesting) while watching my calories will get me out of this rut? Also has anyone who is on Copaxone noticed a weight stall since starting it?

Thanks for taking the time to read, I realize I probably rambled a bit!