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I Need A Bubble!

14 Feb

It’s like my immune system has packed up and left the building (aka body) – not only did it move out it left bait for all the various germs out there letting them know there was an undefended body that they could roost in – stupid immune system! Stupider germs! I want my immune system back!

Let me refresh you on the health or lack there of that has been my life lately:

December 28th-ish – I got sick, I thought it was a simple flu/cold thing so I didn’t go to the doctor, I however was bed ridden for a couple days and felt like death

January 4th – first day back at work since xmas vacation, went to the doctors and found out my “simple cold” was bronchitis and I was instructed to go home and rest for the remainder of the week – that meant three days off work 😦

January 13th-ish – went back to the doctors cause my medicine was complete but my cough was still just as bad as ever and now I was wheezing and barely able to stay awake, got sent for chest x rays, diagnosed with pneumonia

January 20th-ish – went back to the doctor cause I was having such bad abdominal pain (I thought due to all the coughing) I wasn’t able to sleep and I didn’t seem to be getting better, was given an inhaler and generally patted on the head

By this point I felt like I was practically living in the doctors office so I decided screw it, my immune system will kick in and eradicate the remaining germs and I will be fine…I was wrong… 😦

Today – went to the doctor cause my cough never went away and seemed to be getting worse, I have abdominal pain everytime I eat or don’t eat (oh, and drink or don’t drink), tired all the time and a bunch of other symptoms…*rolls eyes* I have now been diagnosed with strep throat, possible mono, possible stomach bacterial infection, possible iron deficiency…I think I am forgetting something else but hey, that’s enough for now. lol 😛

So now I am on new drugs, sigh, told to stay off work for sure tomorrow and if possible wednesday as well (it won’t be possible, I am too poor to take two days off work this week) I have to stop taking my daily pantoloc for the next four days and then go get blood work done to check for the mono, stomach infection and iron deficiency, *rolls eyes again* – I feel like a walking germ, ugh.

Oh, and on top of all that, I am pms-ing (yeah, tmi I know) and I want chocolate more then anybody on the planet wants anything! I’d happily kill for chocolate right now…and not even feel guilty about it! 😉 The only problem is that everything I eat and drink causes abdominal pain so even if I decide to go over my points to eat some chocolate it’ll just make me feel  like crap and totally regret the snack…oh and I have to take the new pills on an empty stomach so the later I have a snack the later I have to stay awake until I can down a pill…I wonder if the ginger ale I am drinking counts as filling my stomach…huh, should’ve thought about that earlier. lol. 😛

So yeah, that is me and my medical story as of now. Fun huh? I have been working hard through all these symptoms to stick to my points and for the most part I have been doing ok…I find when I am sick I crave the oddest foods and the foods I crave don’t always work with what my body can handle food wise. Today, for example, I wanted bread, like at every moment of the day…that was it, bread. I had two dinner buns with my soup at dinner and really, if all I had was the dinner buns I’d have been perfectly content. lol. Oh, and of course the chocolate!

I did go over my points today by 1.5 points but I went over in a “it could have been a hell of a lot worse” kind of way…I had a 1 point weight watchers hot chocolate and an apple, I only had a  half point left at that point so really, I should have just skipped the apple and hot chocolate but I had to have something…pms, whatcha gonna do? I can’t fight my hormones as well when I am sick…I count it as a win though cause instead of eating a chocolate bar or something equally worse I had the apple and the hot chocolate…fruit is my friend…maybe that should be my mantra over the next couple days, help me keep the chocolate away from my mouth! lol 😀

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Who Put A Bakery There??

11 Jan

Grocery stores…a minefield of dangerous hotspots!

Picture this: I turned away from the pharmacy counter preparing to wander the store for approximately 20 minutes while my two prescriptions got filled and what do I face? dun dun dun…The Bakery! Now what bright mind decided to put a pharmacy smack dab inside the bakery section…or is it that the bakery is in the pharmacy section? Either way it sucks!

I normally avoid the bakery, closest I get is walking down the bread aisle lol, cause let’s face it, there’s nothing good for me in the bakery, nothing that will easily fit in to my weight watchers plan but when I turn around and am staring at all those baked goods well…it’s like being near a pet store, I just gotta go in and take a peek. 😛

So I wandered, and circled and read labels and caved…oh man did I cave! I bought crumpets, which I thought would be a lot worse for me then they turned out to be – yah! And I bought two individually wrapped Pecan Tarts, they turned out to be worse for me then I expected, figures, lol. Oh yeah, I also got sushi that wasn’t really sushi and was really gross, sadness.

At that point I realized if I wasn’t careful I’d end up with a cake or donut or something in my basket so I did what any person would do…I called my parents! lol. Who better to call and catch up with while waiting for my prescriptions to be filled? So we chatted, I ceased from putting anything else in my basket and voila! I was saved! 😀

There was one good thing that happened as a result of that bakery…I managed to eat all my points yesterday! Yah!…well ok, I actually went over by 3 points but come on! I haven’t managed to eat all my daily points for like two weeks…over by 3 points isn’t gonna kill me…and hopefully it won’t make me fatter…guess we’ll find out about that on saturday…

Today I ate:

29 grams Honey Bunches of Oats with Pecan Bunches = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 cup Red Lentil and Veggi soup = 3 points

1 piece toast = 1 point

2 triangles light laughing cow cheese = 1 point

1 Activia yogurt = 2 points

2 crumpets = 2 points

30 grams light cracker barrel cheese = 2 points

1 tsp margarine = 1 point

1/2 cup cottage cheese = 2 points

1 crumpet = 1 point

1/2 tsp honey = 0 points

1 orange = 1 point

I have managed to get to 19 points eaten today, I get 20 a day now so that’s pretty good. I have a little 1 point chocolate but I am full and when I am sick I can’t eat when I am not hungry cause my tummy is more sensitive then normal…that little tiny chocolate looks so gross to me right now…weird huh?

But hey, 19 put of 20 points is pretty good considering so I am gonna count it as a win! 😀 Hopefully this is the start of me getting better and also getting back to my normal eating habits!

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Back to the Real World

4 Jan

Aaaahhhhh, my first day back at work since going on vacation mid-day December 22 2010 – can I go back to vacation please? lol. 😀

I didn’t go in to vacation thinking “I am going to eat whatever I want screw the points!” but that is how it started, shrug. I couldn’t even bring myself to regret the food I was eating – it was that gooooood! 😛 I went out for lunch on my birthday AND had a big bday dinner with the family – oh yum! I also hit up a Red Lobster, Joey’s and Cheesecake Cafe – not to mention Christmas dinner!

Well, there I was on an unplanned eating binge when I got sick, I thought it was just a cold with a nasty cough so for a while I kept up with my plans but by last thursday the cough was so bad and I had a bunch of other symptoms that were uber nasty and I spent two days in bed. ugh. What a suck fest! I mean, it’s bad enough being sick and I am grateful I didn’t miss work because of being sick but to miss out on vacation stuff because of sickness?! Not Cool! Naughty immune system! *tsk tsk*

Can I say though, if a person has to be sick they should definitely be sick while visiting the parents cause man, my mom treated me sooooo good! 😀 She made me tea and hot lemonade, brought me food, checked up on me to see how I was doing, got me a hot water bottle…all kinds of things! If I’d been here I would have eaten nothing and drank nothing and been oh so miserable, my mom is such a rock star. 😀

Eventually I got it together enough to go out and have some fun again, yah!, but since Thursday I have had almost no appetite…which ok sure, not good cause it’s only happening cause I am sick but yah! cause the weight I am sure I gained from all the food I ate at the beginning of the trip started to slip away, phew! lol.

Now, I don’t actually know what I weigh right now, if I gained or lost, cause I didn’t weigh myself at my parents (the scale there doesn’t match my scale so it freaks me out when I use it heh) but I am hoping I lost…or at least stayed the same! The whole getting sick thing may end up having a happy side effect. 😛 Won’t know for sure till saturday tho…why is saturday so far away? sigh.

Oh, and little sidenote, the cold is actually Bronchitis, nice huh? I went to a doctor this morning before I went to work and that is what he said, oops! Guess I should’ve listened to my mom when she said “go to the doctor” lol.

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My head may just stay on my neck after all, nice!

22 Sep

So day two of being sick but I am already starting to feel better, yah! A friend of mine in a completely different province seems to have the same thing, we were texting today and comparing symptoms and we are creepy in sync. We are both feeling better so that’s good. 🙂

I got closer to my points today – mostly cause I purposefully ate something really high in points lol, but I count even that as a step towards being better. The wanting and being able to eat less bland foods, definitly a sign I am almost better, right? Right!

Today I ate:

1 toasted pb & j sandwich

    – 2 pieces toast = 2 points

    – 1 tbls light peanut butter = 2 points

    – 1 tbls light raspberry jam = 1 point

1 cup Sidekicks Three Cheese Pasta = 8 points

So here I am at a total of 13 points for the day which you would think would be bad but it’s only 7:20pm so I have time to fit something else in there…I don’t know that I actually will but there is time. lol.

Being that all I did today was sit at home and recuperate I have nothing interesting to post about, shrug, sadness for all the readers who have gotten this far lol, but tomorrow I go back to work and I have a sword fighting class – I am sure something will happen that will be at least a bit interesting…and if not, well hell, I will find something to post about. 🙂

So for now I think I will go make a cup of tea and toast my immune system, cheers!

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Why do we all say it?

21 Sep

What is it we all say you wonder? It seems everyone I know, including myself, when sick say “I hate being sick” – or some variation of that. Uh, duh! Course you do! Who likes being sick? Well, besides those people with psychological disorders who actually get a kick out of the attention they get when sick…and I am not one of those! I hate being around people when I am sick, I want to hide in the dark till I am better. I hate people hearing me talk when my voice is barely there, I hate people seeing me blow my nose, cough until I think I am gonna hurl, nap on the couch…I just hate it all.

So of course I am sick. lol.

I haven’t spoken a word all day (it’s now 9:30pm) because of how much my throat hurts and my head feels like it’s gonna split open from the throbbing. Luckily my fever/chills broke earlier today so that part seems to be done with but oh man do I feel miserable. Here we go, I am gonna say it: I hate being sick. 😛

I managed to eat some food today, about 13 points, and that’s all I am gonna be able to manage. sigh. This better not screw up my weigh in day! Even today, when sick, when I finally managed to make it in to the kitchen to find something to eat I took my slider with me and calculated points. lol. Crazeee!

So here is what I ate today:

1 instant quaker oatmeal (maple and brown sugar) = 3 points

5 baby potatoes = 1 point

2 cheese slices = 2 points

1 piece bread = 1 point

1 cup 1% milk = 2 points

1 Activia yogurt cup = 2 points

1 banana = 2 points

Yup, that’s 13 points. That is rather pathetic.

The Biggest Loser season 10 started tonight, I have been watching it. I am oddly addicted to this show. I like seeing people who are bigger then me lose all that weight and become in way better shape then me…it makes me think I can reach my goal if I just keep trying. Last season was the first season I watched, man, every week I’d sit on the couch with a bowlful of ice cream or some chocolate or something and watch all these fat people kick their own asses (with the trainers help of course) to get where they wanted to be. I thought it was funny, me sitting there with junk food, while they have to eat uber healthy and exercise ridiculous amounts everyday…now I am thinkin the joke was on me, I sat there and got fatter and they worked their asses off – literally!

Right now I feel I have no motivation but that is because I am sick, shrug, it’ll come back as I get healthier and hopefully this tv season I will pick up exercise tips and stop sitting in front of the tv with huge portions of junk food. Oh yeah! It’s not just gonna be the biggest loser on tv this time around…it’s gonna be for real! Holla! 😀 lol

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Another Monday

20 Sep

The week has begun and so far nothing all that momentous has happened. lol. Come on, give me a break, it’s only monday! I need another day or two before something interesting is going to happen. 😛

I just finished eating a Weight Watchers Banana Nut Muffin, Mmm! It always surprises me when the Weight Watchers food tastes good and yet, over and over I am pleasantly surprised by the tastes I encounter. While I am very happy to be Canadian I do envy people in the states who have access to way more Weight Watchers foods then I do. sigh. There used to be more up here but for some reason WW stopped distributing most of it in Canada, double sigh. I get a wider variety of WW foods when I go to England for heavens sake! We do have some WW stuff, the muffins for example. There are also cookies…little 3 bite cakes (those aren’t so great, too dry)…um, yeah, stuff like that. If you go to actual WW meetings you can buy more stuff (I know this cause my mom goes) but I can’t afford the meetings so I can’t buy the stuff they have at the locations. Whenever I eat the WW snack packs they are ones my mom got me. 😀 Aren’t moms great? lol

What we do have though are Smart Ones and Lean Cuisines – frozen dinners and desserts that have the points pre-calculated and written on the box. Those are pretty good, expensive, but good. I usually have one frozen dinner a week, but I have it for lunch, cause there always seems to be one evening a week where I just don’t feel like making lunch for the next day. shrug. Whatcha gonna do? I’m lazy, lol, that’s what those frozen meals are for!

So far today I have eaten:

29 grams Honey Nut Cheerios = 2 points

1/2 cup 1% milk = 1 point

1 banana = 2 points

1 Salad = 0 points

mixed raw veggies = 0 points

1 light babybell = 1 point

1 tbls three cheese ranch = 1 point

1 Lean Cuisine Chicken a l’orange = 4 points

1 cup Butternut Squash soup = 2 points

1 Sandwich

    – 2 pieces bread = 2 points

    – .07 kg Fat Free Turkey Breast = 1 point

    – 1 tbls light miracle whip, mustard, tomato, lettuce = 0 points

    – 1 light cheese slice = 1 point

1 weight watchers banana nut muffin = 3 points

That puts me at a total of 22 points – still got 2 more points to go! I know I am always saying I don’t feel like eating all my points but today I really don’t feel like it. I blame SI, a guy at work, he came in to work last week (all last week!) really sick, coughing up lungs, sneezing, basically spreading all kinds of nasty germs around and I think I caught it…not quite as bad as what he had but some form of it. Grr! I hate when people come to work sick! They aren’t doing anybody any good, double grr! Sorry, I will attempt to not rant about it, it’s just we work in a closed air environment, I breathe in those stupid germs and then I get sick cause my immune system sucks…and I am starting to rant, sorry! 🙂

So yeah, to wrap all that up, I don’t feel well. sigh. When I don’t feel well I don’t wanna eat. I know some people when they get sick they eat for comfort, I go the opposite way – I stop eating completely. All day today I ate because it was the time to eat but not because I wanted to eat. I am hoping, by eating my fruits and veggies and protein I will keep my body running at a good level and help my immune system out and maybe this is as bad as I’ll get…it’s worth a shot!

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I wear my sunglasses at night

12 Aug

Being a girl there is usually one day a month I stay at home and wish for a quick death…today is my day, joy.

I woke up and immediatly felt horrible but thought maybe if I ignore it it will get better…this happens monthly also and yet never works, go figure. After showering and putting in my contacts I realized that going to work was so not going to happen so back to bed I went, ah, bed, my favourite place. After emailing work and texting two work friends I curled up with a book. I couldn’t get to sleep cause the pain was so bad but I could keep myself occupied enough that I could ignore the cramping for entire minutes at a time. 😛

A couple hours later my migraine was starting up so I swapped my contacts for my glasses crawled back in to bed and this time attempted to doze off. At first it was just fitful dozing but eventually I fell asleep, I love sleeping my way through pain, I think it’s one of the best things a body can do. 😛 When I finally woke up I thought it would be only a couple hours later, ha! it was almost 3 pm! I slept from 9:30am or so till almost 3pm, whoa! That’s a killer amount of sleep. I guess my body needed it…

Even though it was now late afternoon I was not hungry but eventually I realized I had to make myself eat so I chose high point foods, figured it was the only way I’d be able to get anywhere near my points. It is now almost 9pm, I am not going to be eating anything else for the day even though I have points left and I am still dealing with the remnants of my migraine so to avoid the piercing pain that is caused from the glare of my laptop screen I am wearing my sunglasses, at night, I feel like an old 80’s music video. lol.

what'd I tell ya? sunglasses at night!

It’s the first day I have been sick while following the weight watchers program. If I had eaten my more healthy food options, say fruit, I would have been even farther away from reaching my points. I wasn’t sure which was better, eating something processed and high in points or eating something fresh but that is only a couple points. I am still not sure which is the better way to go…shrug, ah well, it’s not something I am going to figure out tonight.

Today I ate:

1 pckg microwave Kraft Mac n Cheese = 5 points

2 pieces of toast

    – 2 pieces of bread = 2 points

    – 2 tsp margarine =2 points

    – 1 tbsp Kraft Raspberry Jam = 1 point

1 pckg Mr. Noodle chicken flavour = 8 points

1 cup cherries = 1 point

So that’s a total of 19 points. See, I managed to get close to my daily points by eating all crap, lol, not that I don’t enjoy that crap food but still, not a lot of good healthy nutrients got in me today. Except for the cherries…those were healthy!

I can’t bring myself to care all that much that I didn’t eat anything healthy today cause I still feel  like crap but tomorrow I will probably be kicking myself. Something to look forward to! lol

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