Sickness

It's always hard being sick.  You don't feel good, you don't have any energy to do anything, and NOTHING sounds good.  It's even harder being sick and trying to live your life in the healthy lifestyle that you have pledged to live.

If you haven't guessed, I am sick.  I hate being sick.  I have been sick for 5 days now.  But something that I have noticed this time around is that my appetite has increased instead of decreased.  I'm hungry more often than I used to be before I got sick, but I am still in the rut of nothing sounds good. My belief for this phenomenon is that my body is trying to heal itself through more nutrients than I need to sustain me when I am not sick.

This last week I lost a little over 1 pound.  I welcome that 1 pound with open arms, a home cooked meal, and a nice warm bed to sleep in. I've been literally camped out on the couch for 5 days with ZERO energy and not wanting to cook anything.  Thank heavens for my awesome and wonderfully caring husband who will cook anything I tell him.  I become the recipe that is glued to the couch as I tell him one thing to do, he goes into the kitchen and does it, and then comes into the family room to ask me what to do next. Bless his devoted heart.

There is no reason to "deprive" your body of what it is needing.  There is a difference between NEED and WANT. Before this journey, when I would get sick, I would "puppy dog eye" my husband for Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby ice cream or take out because that was what I wanted. That was what sounded good. And being the loving and caring husband he is, he would go out and get me what I wanted and come home and fix the rest of the family dinner. Even if it was cereal. It wasn't what I NEEDED, but what I WANTED. Friday, the ONLY thing that sounded good was Olive Garden's Chicken and Gnocchi soup. Pardon me while I go a little off topic here, I have a suspicion that they don't use real chicken in that soup.  Look at it.  It is unusually pink and doesn't have the texture that chicken should have. BUT, the broth is incredibly flavorful and hit the spot right on the nosie! OK, back on topic. He went and picked it up and it tasted GREAT. (Although, now I prefer to pick the "chicken" out.) ESPECIALLY with the salad. I don't think the salad has ever tasted that good to me. In fact, I had two helpings. Right now, my body NEED's the extra nutrition. So, I will have to have snacks that I normally don't have because I'm not hungry. I have no doubt that this will be a "stall" in my progress (not because of the snacks, but because of the extra eating), but you gotta do what you gotta do. And right now, I gotta get better. Then it will be full steam ahead with less food again.