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...

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.

Week 4 - Day 2

I was pretty much not hungry at all yesterday.. as the stats will now show...

Day 2:

• total calories/points: 990 / 23 - the only full meal I ate was dinner.. the rest was just small snacks.
• no workout - my legs were KILLING me from my workout Saturday. This is a good sign!
• 0 cigarettes
• 11pm bedtime
• $0 spent

I'm not really in the mood to delve into anything else right now - so short post for today!

Week 4 - Day 1

Yesterday's post...

I was too busy having too much fun with my friend Stacy to be bothered to update my blog lol. I don't know that a single Saturday (since the first) since I started this Challenge have I actually updated on my week starts.

End of Week 3 Body Stats:

• Weight: 194lbs - I have a theory on this... and that is (TMI coming guys, watch out!) I'm on my period this weekend and it's KILLING me and I'm 98% sure that is why my weight has not dropped at all this week. I am going to re-weigh on Wednesday (should be over by then) and see if there's any difference.
• Waist at belly button: 36.25" - another quarter inch!
• Hips: (I've been regularly measuring my hips weekly, but haven't been posting this number mostly because there has been very little fluctuation... until NOW) 45.25"!!!!

I feel like the fact that I've "shrunk" so much in my measurements attests to the fact that my weight number is a bit incorrect... anyhoo - like I said, re-weigh on Wednesday and see how it looks then.

I drank more than I realized Friday night and woke up a bit fuzzy-headed and with a bit of a headache.. not full-blown hangover, but close enough to be aggravating. I got up, ate some cereal, had some orange juice, popped a bunch of vitamin B complex , and settled in to catch up on FB. Well, my buddy Adam had posted an article from Men's Health magazine on my wall all about fitness... and how everything we're told is pretty much a lie. LIFE RUINER! So I read the article.. which is awesome... and then I'm all pumped to go lift some weights like I'm a BAMF... so I did. And let me tell you: BEST HANGOVER CURE EVER.  I felt amazing after working out! Plus it was excellent start to Week 4, get right on it right out of the gate. This is a good set-up for the rest of my week.

I also did muuuuuuch better on my eating Saturday. *whew*



Day 1:

• total calories/points: 1600 / 28 - FYI, for this week I'm upping my daily calories to 1800 since I feel confident that I'm back into a good workout routine. 
• 45 minute workout, mostly weight lifting, avg HR 160 - guessing between 300-400 calories burned
• 3 cigarettes / 1 alcoholic drink
• 2am bedtime - stayed up reading... nerd
• $6 on Chipotle for dinner