Holiday eating

So I'm home for the holidays, and my diet hasn't crash landed but for completely unexpected reasons. I get home and see my dad who happens to be sick. Do I want to see him, yes. Did I want to catch his illness, no. I've been sick for the past 3-4 days. All I've been able to eat is soup and coconut water.... approx 2-3 cans of soup and one container of coconut water in 3 days. Needless to say I dropped past the 160 mark (yay) but not in a good way. As soon as I get better I expect to put weight on again. I feel as if I'm loosing muscle mass instead of fat. I want to be 145 or 150 and strong.
I started out the first 3 days of the vacation strong, I worked out with my mom every day and ate reasonable portion sizes of the stuff I don't normally allow myself to have (read bread). I then saw my dad, and went to a party where I had a horrible allergic reaction to the cats. (And yes I did know she had cats, that was stupid on my part). When I got back I thought I could just wash the clothes and get better but it didn't happen that way. I've been on my bum on the couch for several days unable to move around. I can't sleep at night for fear of an asthma attack and I don't want to go to a doctor before I'm truly sick because I don't want to pay for them to say "oh well wait and see if it gets worse". Hot showers have been helping but at this point I just feel horrible at night. I'm taking a decongestant and my nose won't stop running, I'm taking Advil for my horrible headache and body aches. It needs to get better.

I was supposed to cook Christmas dinner, which is always served around lunch time. I didn't have the stamina to cook much less the health so my mom had to take my ideas and do it. She does a good job cooking but I have a vision for it and it just sucks not to be able to execute it.
For dinner the menu was:
Honey glazed turkey
goat cheese stuffed mushrooms
bread free stuffing
cauliflower mashed 'potatoes'
giblet gravy
kale
string beans
cranberry sauce

all with limited amounts of sugar and as healthy as possible.

Chimichanga cheat

Today I decided to treat myself to a cheat day. I was doing well and didn't need one but really wanted one. This leads to me heading to the Mexican restaurant and ordering a chicken chimichanga for takeout. I decided to eat the whole thing in one sitting, 415 g of yummy with 87g of re-fried beans on the side. I really was full half way through but kept going and going and then it was gone. And then I was out like a light. I fell asleep for about 3 hours directly following and now I feel kinda gross. When I fell asleep I thought that I couldn't eat again every... and now that I'm awake.... I'm hungry again :(

Exercise

So before I weigh myself in the morning and be disappointed in the numbers on the scale, I want to take a minute to feel proud of myself for my exercise tonight. I was feeling tired, my quads have been hurting lately but I have been diligently getting on the elliptical every night this week. I had every intention at the beginning of the holiday to exercise twice a day but was only able to do it once. By the time I woke up it was already mid afternoon and I ended up studying or cooking instead (both good things). However, tonight I was going to give myself a pass on the exercise, but then I remembered the cup of ice cream I had earlier in the day.
I went to a place to study that serves vegan ice cream.... yeah like I was going to pass that up. I got a small which was about 5 oz of sea-salt caramel chocolate chip ice cream with vegan cookie dough added to it. I was in heaven for about the 10 min I was able to make it last. My study buddy got a good chuckle from me licking the bowl....

Any way back to the point. I got up around 2:30 put on my exercise clothes and headed to the little gym they have here in my apt complex. I decided I'd go 30 min on the treadmill instead of using the elliptical. (For the past several days I have been doing 50 min on the elliptical while I watch an episode of a Japanese drama :) ) I decided I was going to try for 2 min of running in intervals after a 10 min warmup. By 9 min in I was ready to go and started jogging (this is what I call running for now) but the point is I had the little number on the machine at 4.5mph. I did that for a full 3 min!!! then after a 2 min walk at 3.8mph I did it again only at 4.6mph. Another 3 min! I was able to do 5 min intervals of 3 min jogging and 2 min walking upping the pace of the jog by .1mph at a time. I did this for 20 min and then went up to a 5mph jog for the last minute. After this my cool down was a 2 minutes walking at 4mph then dropping back down to 3.4mph for the last 3 min. I want to take a minute to be proud of myself because I didn't think I could do this. When I first started trying to run I became winded after 40 seconds, and could push for 1 to 1.5 minutes but then I would need 2-3 minutes of walking before I could even try to attempt it again. To be able to switch it around is awesome! On the 4th cycle I was tired and my legs were getting a bit sore but I think I might have been able to push it for a 5th go. Maybe next time ;)