Day 8 - Sickness Abounds

Day 8 was both good and bad, the bad part is why I'm blogging about it on Day 9.

I woke up and weighed myself, it has been one week of dieting and training and it was time to see how I was doing. I've lost nine pounds! That's really exciting, but having been on diets before, my excitement is tempered by knowing that a lot of that is water weight.

I did my morning run/walk and felt good throughout, even jogging longer than my designated one minute. Breakfast was my regular eggs and oatmeal affair. Lunch was a big salad from the cafe' with ham, chicken, zucchini, yellow squash, and eggplant topped with a bit of balsamic vinaigrette. Thus ends the good part of the day.

After lunch though, I got sick. I had a sore throat and a fever. If it hadn't been for a pressing issue at work I would have gone home and hopped in bed. I skipped my afternoon and evening snacks because I wasn't hungry but ate a good dinner of baked fish, green beans, and peaches. I used the eyeball method on dinner, I just wanted to eat something healthy and call it a night.

My wife was hosting a Pampered Chef show so I was in charge of watching my son. We sat on the couch and watched TV until about 9:30PM, which is way past bedtime for the kids, when my wife came home. She took one look at us sitting zombified and glassy eyed, both of us coughing (my son has been sick for a few days) and me wincing when I did, and sent us both to bed. I think I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. Everyone else has been sick off and on for a week, I guess I was due.