Wednesday, 24 December 2014

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.

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