My emotional goodbye to my love….cheese

I blame my sister. Read this book she said, it will really help you with your MS. Oh, ok. Once you have read something you can't go back and unread it and I naively had no idea what a HUGE change this one book would make to my life.

'Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis' by George Jelinek

I have had MS for nearly five years now and was still in reasonable health and avoiding medication like the plague. I'm not a huge fan of injections and the idea of having to inject myself regularly did not bode well. I have been trying Oxygen Therapy and to be honest it had left me feeling fabulous, but that could be down to the fact that I had a WHOLE HOUR to myself actually READING which, with three children aged five and under, was pretty rare. So I am sat in my chamber on my dive with an oxygen mask on my face and the thing is, the book made sense, it all made sense, I just don't think I had mentally prepared myself for suddenly realising that all my favourite foods (cheese, steak, sausages, butter, cream) were changed from my "five a day" foods to "you must never eat these foods again if you don't want your MS to get worse" foods.

This is huge. But OK.

I have three young children, a husband, family and friends. If this was my answer to staying healthy and living life like a normal person then that is what I choose. After all, you eat food to aid your body to function. It makes sense that you give your body the correct foods to allow it to do this properly.

And it is quite exciting. A whole new life, a whole new diet.

Finding new recipes and discovering new foods. I am three weeks in and so far I feel incredible. Doors that I thought had nearly closed for me have suddenly flown open.

I feel invincible and alive again. But I really miss cheese.