Not loving this cold

I am still in bed. In my pajamas.  Under the covers.  And I don’t know if I will be moving any time soon.  I am definitely under the full effects of a cold.  Sneezing, snot, major sore throat and that overall blah feeling.  I thought I was improving yesterday.  I still went to the gym and swam and came home and made dinner.  Then I went to bed.  I woke up around 5AM on my own and could not go back to sleep.  I just felt sick and achy and miserable.  When my alarm went off an hour later telling me it was time to go to the gym, I laughed, turned it off and told Justin I was staying home today.  This is the major downside of standing out in the cold rain all day Saturday–I knew I was going to get sick.  Blah.

On another note–I have decide the blog will have another focus for the next few weeks.  It will probably look a lot like my old blog, Sweets & Sweats.  The reason?  I am in a wedding over the first weekend in November.  And like every other girl that is ever in a wedding, I want to look my best.  If I don’t lose weight, it won’t ruin the wedding.  I think I look good, I just think I could look better…and that is what I want to do.  So I’m going to track my eating and still track my working out on here.  Nothing will change with my workouts, still just try to push myself hard.  And my eating probably won’t change a ton, more than anything I need to eliminate the mindless snacking….and when you photograph your food, mindless snacking disappears.

Workout

I had a good workout last night.  I still hope to workout today.  We will see.  At this moment, I have no desire to get 2 feet out of my bed…much less put on a bathing suit and go get in a cold pool.

Duration     42 minutes
Distance     2000m

Warm up
2 x 100m Freestyle Swim (even pace), rest 0:15 / 100m

Build up (repeat 4 times)
1 x 50m kick with fins, rest 0:10 / 25m
1 x 50m Freestyle Push & Glide, rest 0:10 / 25m

Core
6 x 100m Freestyle Swim, rest 0:20 / 100m
Rest 0:30 seconds
6 x 100m Freestyle Swim with paddles, rest 0:20 / 100m

Warm down
1 x 100m Freestyle Push & Glide, rest 0:20 / 100m
1 x 100m Freestyle Easy, rest 0:20 / 100m

Hopefully I will make it to the gym today.

Breakfast

I was amazed I had enough of an appetite to eat all of this but I think the most appealing part was having something warm on my throat.

1/2 cup of oats, 1 cup of water, 1 scoop of vanilla protein (about 40 cals and 3.5 grams of protein), some cinnamon, salt and a frozen banana.

 

I already packed my food for today, obviously not knowing I was staying at home.  I will aim to eat this same stuff today because otherwise I may start munching.  I do wish I had soup instead…..I do have a head of cauliflower, so maybe I’ll make some soup out of that.  But I don’t really feel like cooking.  Ugh, I’m a bad patient! Anyway, for the time being, here is what I am planning on eating.

Lunch

A salami sandwich.  This is one slice of homemade wheat bread cut in half.  There is 1 ounce of salami, 1/2 ounce of mozzarella cheese and some mustard.  I forgot how much I loved this combination until I was rereading through my blog and saw a rave review.

Last night I made a dinner with orzo, shrimp, artichoke and rainbow chard.  It was quite good, but the recipe did not call for the ribs of the chard.  I love chard and hate throwing away the ribs because they have a ton of flavor.  So I put them in the skillet after dinner was done and just sauteed with a bit of lemon for a few minutes.  I topped this with balsamic vinegar to eat for lunch.

and an apple.  But right now, as I type all of this, I don’t know if my appetite will be able to handle all this food.

SNACKS

A blueberry yogurt which will probably go in the freezer….that sounds so nice on the throat right now!

and I was planning on going back to the gym tonight to lift, so I packed a little pre-workout snack

There is only 1 of the 2 bars in that package.

and I also packed a piece of dark chocolate, just in case a sweet attack hit me.

 

We will see what actually gets consumed.  For the mean time, all I want to do is lay in my bed and watch TV.  Unfortunately I have a deadline today, so I will be laying in bed working.  Still better than sitting at my desk working!  To gym or not to gym, that is the question….will working out help me kick this nastiness?  I am wishing I had some dayquil laying around! 

 

Have a good day!