Week 4 - Days 3 and 4

I probably should have known I was coming down with something when my calorie count for Sunday was only 990... and then again when Monday night and all day Tuesday I just couldn't get warm. I had on an undershirt and 2 sweaters and I was still FREEZING. Sure enough after barely being able to sleep despite feeling completely run down and exhausted and going to bed at 10pm... I woke up at 1am with a fever of 102.7 and my throat so sore and lymph nodes so swollen I could barely swallow.

I've been nothing but a pitiful, sick lump on the couch today... well, half in my bed, and then half on the couch... I'm really upset because today was supposed to be my workout day, but obviously with a pretty insistent fever and major body aches I won't be doing much other than continuing to be a lump for the remainder of today and probably most of tomorrow too. This is the major thing that sucks about having daycare/school-aged children... they bring home all those tiny yucky germs from all the other kids they're around all day.

So here are my two days worth of stats..

Day 3:

• total calories/points: 1'987 / 35  -- I think I was somehow subconsciously making up for my measly intake on Sunday
• 45 minutes of weightlifting - guestimating about 350 calories burned. 
• 0 cigarettes
• 11pm bedtime
• $5 spent on lunch

Day 4:

• total calories/points: 1'600 / 33
• no workout
• 0 cigarettes / 1 alcoholic drink
• 10pm bedtime
• $6 spent on lunch

I want it to be known that today marks 4 days of no smoking. Before I realized I was coming down with the freaking flu I went to meet up with a friend of mine at a local bar - had one beer, no cigarettes. And the smell hanging on my clothes when I came home made me want to puke... now, I'm not promising anything, but that one night at a bar where everyone was smoking and I didn't makes me feel confident that I can kick this habit. Now, I have to get Mike to quit too... this is what happened last year about this time - quit smoking for two months, he didn't, and by my birthday in April I gave in and totally started smoking again. Maybe this time I can hold strong.

...even just typing this about smoking makes me feeling like I'm gonna throw up... that might have something to do with my current illness though...

And now, for some mac'n'cheese cause that's the only thing I can imagine being able to stomach.. some Mad Men... and bed.