Week 4 - the rest of the days...

The basic recap of my sick days and then end of my week were this:

I did not consume more than 1'000 calories or 25 points per day. I did not work out. I did not do much more than sit on my couch and watch the BBC version of Skins for 3 days.. with a couple of random movies thrown in. For those of you who read and might not know me on the book of faces: I started running a high fever in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday, continued running that fever into Thursday accompanied with the rawest/sorest throat ever known to man to the point where I could hardly swallow my own saliva (I'm so pretty) and went to the doctor where she informed me that "Oh GEEZ - yeah, you have really bad strep", gave me an rx for some hardcore antibiotics, and send me along my way.

...here's where my Mental Illness kicks in a little bit... so I just flat out haven't really been that hungry for the last 3-4 days, and even when I am I'm limited to, like, soup because my throat hurts so bad the thought of eating or drinking anything other than luke-warm or hot liquid is like HELL to me... I did manage to be able to eat some kung pao shrimp the other night after popping 3 ibuprofen for the pain/swelling... but so I've eaten like non-existent calories for 3 days now... and I find myself yesterday when I WAS actually hungry freaking out about breaking that 1'000 calorie mark because I hadn't been doing anything but sitting like a lump and I still wanted to be able to post that I'd lost SOMETHING this week... and I was thinking oh, yeah, totally, I will TOTALLY lose weight this week... but then the other kind of nuts thing is that even only eating like 800-900 calories a day, once I actually reach that mark I feel incredibly full and can't imagine eating ever again. Plus on any given normal day I wake up pretty hungry in the mornings - I'm a big breakfast person - but even today I am just... not hungry. I'm also one of those people that usually gets a migraine if I just don't eat, but that hasn't happened once this week either.

Sorry that was kind of confusing and weird rant... let's blame the sickness. I guess the bottom line is - I was starting to kind of freak out about eating MORE THAN 1'000 CALORIES! That's crazy talk. I love food. Y'know, when it's not making me feel like I'd rather have a lion tear out my throat than swallow chewed solid food for fear of the scraping pain it causes. But yeah. Here's hoping I'm back to normal in the next couple days. I was hoping today would be that day since I've now been on my antibiotics for almost 48 hours. Maybe tomorrow, but unfortunately I don't think I'll be attending any Super Bowl activities. *sigh*

Week 5 post coming up shortly...