Greetings to all, I am in the middle of a holiday break at my in-laws house 900 miles from home and at least 25° colder than I like it. Nonetheless it is a fun yet challenging time for me, I don't know if its because I'm in a different home or because I'm not drinking enough water but, well lets just say that I'm being reminded by my own body (and bathroom visits -yuck-) that I need to always be on top of my water intake. As an MSer you might take it for granted you might even forget what a blessing water is for your body, water helps with digestion (while a colder climate and a stressful trip won't) . I guess I'm just doing this also as a psa for anyone stateside during this time because its getting colder out there.

Saladjunkie

I always try to keep an eye towards what I eat, sometimes I do a good job sometimes not so good. Lately though I've been trying to go big on my salad intake

Although it's probably a lazy way to go about it I've really been enjoying the salad mix bags that come pre-chopped. They really are convenient especially since I don't have to spend all that time chopping and whatnot. In a typical week I can go through about two bags just by myself, it's a great thing not from a nutrition aspect but also in a umm... "roughage" standpoint. Like most MSers my digestion is not always my best friend so I take any help where I can get it.

ongoing dilemma(s)

I've been having trouble lately, my two ongoing problems are typical MSer problems so I'm just typing here to vent, two nights ago I enjoyed some turkey chili and that came back to bite me on the butt the following day. I woke up feeling very bloated. My hardship there, I'm cuban and I enjoy dishes that have beans in them, as you already might now, I have MS and have a digestive tract that feels like it rusts shut most of the time so most days are an adventure.

a basic way to illustrate my situation

My other problem as I have stated here before my leg tremors have been becoming more active lately, for those of you who aren't to familiar with that, it looks exactly how it sounds, my foot will twitch left right, left right really quickly for about five seconds then my leg muscle contracts. It doesn't hurt me it's just annoying because my leg does this on its own. Most days it's not annoying but for the last two nights it's been really bad. I do take my supplements and try to make it to the gym three times a week so right now, only time will tell