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stages of the 24 hour stomach virus

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That’s right folks, I’ve been blessed with the 24 hour stomach virus. So far this is how it’s gone.

Stage 1 – Denial: Its just a little stomach rumble. Nothing wrong here. I’ll just keep going about my day and maybe nothing will happen.

Stage 2 – Panic: Oh crap. What is happening to my stomach. This is not going away. Working through it is NOT working.

Stage 3 – Pain: My stomach feels as though it’s been invaded by that dancing monster from Spaceballs. I’m going to die.

Stage 4 – Worship the porcelain thrown. I’ll spare you the details.

Stage 5 – Pain revisited. A now empty stomach can’t decide if it’s going back to stage 4 or moving on to stage 6.

Stage 6 – The I’m swearing off food for the next year stage.

Stage 7 – Stage 6 was stupid. It’s just a little cramping now. I’m eating something.

Stage 8 – Stage 7 was really stupid and I’m going back to Stage 6.

Stage 9 – Sleep it off.

Stage 10 – Stomach flu hangover: You know what I’m talking about. The part where you are so afraid of it coming back that you refuse to eat anything but crackers and your stomach feels like bombs went off in it the previous day.

May the Gods of the Interwebz keep this virus from entering your house through computer generated osmosis.

wednesday weigh in #1

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This is my first official weigh-in on my road to healthy. So far I’m really excited to say that I’ve made progress and I’ve been doing things that I’m pretty sure I can live with for the long haul. So drumroll please….

I lost 4.8 pounds this week!

And to be truthful it was the easiest ‘diet’ week I’ve ever had because I really didn’t diet. I just tweaked a few simple things. I honestly did not expect this much of a result. 

So what did I do? Here it is:

  • I drank an insane amount of water.
  • I started taking my lunch to work and made sure to include a raw vegetable and a raw fruit.
  • I started eating a small salad every night with dinner and it was the first thing I ate each time.
  • I used a smaller plate for dinner.
  • I ate breakfast every day.
  • And had our exercise bike not broken on Monday I would have done 30 minutes a day.
Now of all these things I have to say I think the increase in water intake made the most difference. 3,000 trips to the bathroom not withstanding, it really helped a lot. I wasn’t as hungry this week and on the plus side my skin is clear as a bell.

I’ve still got a really long way to go but I’m pumped to be seeing progress and these changes aren’t straining my daily life so I’m sure I can stick with them. With Thanksgiving this week I don’t expect next week to be quite as big but I’m determined to stick with the things I’m doing so far.

Hop over to blogtofit.com to see how everyone else did this week.