Thank you for stopping by to cheer me up jsl and Raven! I appreciate it!
Well if there is only one good thing about getting sick, it is this: losing weight.
I lost my appetite the past few days and thought my favorite pair of jeans felt a little (just a twee bit) looser, so tonight I got on the scale and guess who has lost 5 lbs and now weights 155.5 lbs?
Yay for the stupid cough!
I am still not all better, although I did eat a bit more today, but overall still feel pretty crappy. My throat is still sore and itches and the nose still runs, not to mention another kind of runs going on (!) so yeah, not at 100% just yet. However, I do feel I must be getting better and my annoying coughing attacks have been getting more spaced out and not as continuous as they were a day ago.
I noticed that I just did not want to eat much at all. Even if I was hungry I could only eat a little bit, not finish anything.
Tomorrow is a party I'm going to so I'll be careful not to infect anyone. No hugs and lots of washing of my hands. I'll keep my distance. I'm bringing homemade aloo gobi (no oil) along with store bought chappatti (roti) and naan. It should be a fun party. We have it every year.
I really really really really really really REALLY tired of having a sore throat!!!
I bought the bar bell set at Walmart.
I will be doing squats, dead lift, and bench presses with it. These are good for building overall body strength. I have to learn proper form and I'm reading a book on that right now. There are also youtube videos on the exercises so I can watch them too. My plan is to do bar bell exercises 3 times a week for about an hour. That is apparently all that is needed because if you do the exercises right, they really do build muscle throughout your body.
Since I can't really run much thanks to my tendons, I thought I'd try strength training. The more I learn about it that happier I am with my choice.
I'll have to be very careful to learn proper form. That's the one thing I'm a little worried about. It'd be easier if I had a gym and a spotter/trainer, but at the same time, I've read that a lot of gym trainers don't even know proper form for bar bells because they train people on the other machines... anyway, I can't afford a gym but certainly could afford the simple bar bell set. It was only $40 and I had a $25 gift card too.
So now I'm back home in SF and have my gifts put away and my bar bell set in its place.. Hopefully by Monday I'll have finished the book, practiced with some youtube videos, and I can start with the bar bell and then do it ever Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
As for food, I plan to keep eating MWL. I'm happy eating that way.. I mean, of course, once my appetite returns!