So it is Saturday… and I should have weighed in….. I did not……..
I have been in a holding partern these last few weeks and I checked myself on my home scale and saw I an still holding steady so I saved myself the extra time of going to Bally’s and worked out at my local gym. I am still feeling like A$$ from the cold/flu what ever it is kicking my butt. I woke up at 2am with a pain in my raw throat. I coughed and hacked some green snot and used a sore throat spray to help with the pain. I was up for 40 minutes feeling bad. I did get back to sleep and I woke up feeling half way OK. The fevorish feeling comes and goes. Last night I needed to sleep in sweat pants, socks and a shirt, when normaly I am wearing shorts only.
OK back on track. There was a second reason to save some time with the closer gym, I needed to get to the bank too. So I did than, stopped at a local shop for a gift for my one B-in-L and made it home for a shower and breakfast. The rest of the day was spent riding the couch. My wife is stuck in the funk again too. She is having different symptoms though. She has been having a sick feeling plus a fever. We did not eat the same things the last few days but did share some common meals. It is possible she got a touch of food poisoning, or the bug I have is just affecting her slightly different. So to make a long boring story short, we did not do any Holiday shopping today like we needed to. We suck.
The afternoon rolled around so it was off to the gym for me. I did pretty good, I did 60 minutes on the elliptical stepper machine. I did the firt 30 minutes as a stair stepper starting at level 10 and working up to level 15. The last 30 minutes I used it as an elliptical machine and increased the level up to 20 (the max!)and had a good sweat going. It was a normal workout for me but I was still feeling sick. It is wild that I can use the machine at the maximun setting and do it for a while. I can’t do that with any other cardio machines. I can max out the regular elliptical machine but only for a minute or two before needing to drop the resistance down some. When I started with this machine many weeks ago I was using it at level 1 and sweating! That is amazing. Dinner tonight was home made chicken soup. We both need the healing properties. My wife could not handle too much since her stomach is upset. Hopefully tonight will be a better night for both of us.
