Day 8

Woke up this morning feeling great! Had "lunch" which was a shake, a cleanse, and a mug of green tea. Hung out in the house until it would have been time to head to the gym. I'd signed up to try something new called Strongman. It's still CrossFit but with a lot more heavy lifting with awkward things like atlas stones. I was so excited. Then 4 pm rolled around and everything went downhill. After a snack of half a banana and a boiled egg, I all of a sudden just felt sick. I was cold, weak, my head felt stuffy. It just knocked me on my ass. So I bundled up in a hoodie, sweatpants and socks and went back to bed under my comforter. Even then I couldn't shake the cold. Eventually I fell asleep for about an hour. I now feel like I'm at a normal temperature but I still have this headache and I still feel a bit weak. I ended up calling out of work because I knew I looked worse than any of my patients. I made sure to get up for about an hour because the puppy wasn't going to walk himself and I knew part of recovering was to make sure I had some good food in my belly. So we did all that, and I had a chicken breast seasoned with cinnamon & curry and the zucchini saute. Grabbed an orange for dessert for some extra Vitamin C. I'll have to go to the store tomorrow and get myself an emergency bottle of OJ.

Here's to a night recovering in bed!

I started watching The Biggest Loser last night. Oh my God it makes me cry harder than Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The pain that these people put themselves through is just incredible. Not to mention Jillian scares the crap out of me. I think it's great that they've brought kids on the show too. I can definitely feel for one of the kids because she has a really busy life in high school with her schoolwork and just found herself neglecting her health for the sake of getting good grades. I neglected my health for more reasons than one but I can definitely feel for her. Sometimes we just simply lose track of what's important. I hate watching people get eliminated though. I'm really happy that they're moving on after the show and still losing the weight but you just don't want to see people getting eliminated just because they didn't lose a large enough percentage of weight. I think at some points it's just sending the wrong message to people. The people on the show understand that they should continue being healthy afterwards, but how about the people at home who are trying to dedicate themselves and see what happens when you don't measure up to others. Maybe it's my emotions coming out, but you shouldn't be eliminated just because your body adjusts to exercise in a different way.

Ok, rant off, I'm heading to bed. Hopefully I get better soon!