Dear James, Daniel and Emily,
I was sure confident that I had moved past the flu bug. I was ready to take the next step in my running over the weekend, resuming my plan of running my hillier routes. And let the calorie burn of the running help me move along on my overall fitness and weight loss plan. Yep that was where things stood on Thursday.
Friday morning I felt kind of crummy, but mainly just sore and had trouble warming up, so I didn't push the miles. By Friday night I was starting to feel bad, so I just sat & watched a couple of movies. Saturday morning when I got up I felt roughly like death warmed over. It felt like the same damn flu bug had returned, only not quite as much coughing.
So I curled up on the couch and watched TV/slept the day away (while Kim played Super Mom, I love her for that.) By Sunday I was marginally better but still pretty miserable. I suffered through the day, able to do a little more, mainly taking care of Kim and watching football. Monday we both skipped work and made a point to go the the Dr. Mainly with the goal of seeing what it was, because on a cursory reading of symptoms I was afraid we had contracted pneumonia. Fortunately it turned out that all we have is matching sinus infections.
Which means once I feel up to it I can resume running. Which sadly enough means that I am not running for at least a week, because I need to get past this, and the best weapon in my arsenal (aside from antibiotics) is sleep.
And that means I have to focus my mental energy on my improved eating habits, and keeping myself under my calorie count without the help of the burn of running. Which is harder. But, in the long run will be better, because if I can get myself used to following that calorie number without running than when the running resumes it will that much easier, hopefully leading to more weight loss! See there is a positive spin to this whole sad tale.
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