So yesterday morning I woke up with a stuffy nose, body aches and the low-grade fever. Thrill a moment, all the symptoms of a summer cold. I dislike summer colds because you’re already uncomfortable, but combine the misery of a cold with the high temperatures soaring into the 100s and it’s a perfect recipe for disaster.
Fitness Plans
As I’ve mentioned before, you can work out while you are sick, but you need to judge your condition not on how tired you are, but on how sick you are. Since I was running a low-grade fever and I was having a hard time breathing – I skipped yesterday’s workout.
I spent the day doping myself up on daytime cold drugs just to stay functional and catching a nap here and there. I missed doing my workout, but my energy levels stayed painfully low.
Sickie Soup
My husband brewed up what he calls the sickie soup and fed it to me by the gallon. Sickie soup is a combination of chicken noodle and chicken & rice soups from Campbell’s. You mix the two cans up and you add a can and a half of water to them.
He pours the whole mess into an oversized mug and you drink down the broth while eating the rice and noodles. It’s a great pick me up and the salt amount is pretty high – and while the concoction is pretty vile to me most of the time – when I’m sick it’s one of the best things I’ve ever had.
Combine plenty of sickie soup with cups of tea and I’m floating in fluid. Still, a day later and I feel better. I’m still running that low-grade fever, but the sniffles are a lot more manageable and my energy levels are a bit higher. I suppose it will be another day of sickie soup and tea – and more floating away, still – it’s better than the alternative.
I’ll tale it easy again today, but hopefully tomorrow I’ll be back on my Fitness magazine You Can Do It challenge. I’m excited, too because my husband fixed my exercise bike so I get to go back to switching out between the bike and the treadmill.
How have you been feeling lately?
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