wednesday wrap-up - weeks 6 & 7

hello...

I'm still here and thought that I should make a quick post, afterall, today is my usual wrap up day.

First, I should start with week 6. I spent week 6 being quite sick. I had booked Friday, August 25 off from work, as a vacation day. It gave me a nice long weekend and I'd been quite looking forward to it. Unfortunately, the day before, on the 24th, my allergies (which had been really quite okay up until that point) went bananas. I felt like I had a wicked head cold, I didn't, I knew it was allergies, but all day at work that Thursday, I kept hearing about how horrible I sounded.

The next morning, I woke up feeling really crappy. Dizzy, sleepy, generally yucky. I spent the entire morning in bed, sleeping. I never do that kind of thing and I surprised even myself by it. By late in the afternoon, I felt much better. My hunny took me out for dinner, we stopped off at my folks' for a visit, we even took a drive after that and went to the casino for an hour. By the time we got home I was tired but felt quite good.

Saturday was totally different. When I woke up, I was not hungry. I sipped on a coffee but couldn't face food. This just never happens for me. I always have an appetite so I knew something was really wrong. For the next two days, my stomach was in rough shape. I was nauseous, I was running back and forth from the toilet and I had a low grade fever. I hauled my butt back to work on Monday but really felt like crap. Literally (sorry!).

It took me until almost the end of the week to feel normal again. My hunny never got whatever I had so we didn't think it was a bug or food related. What we surmised is that it's related to the allergies. Do you think it's possible that the allergy related dizziness was actually vertigo and that made me sick? Either way, I feel better now, thank goodness.

Unfortunately (or fortunately) it's now the busiest time of my year at work. I went into the office for the morning on Saturday even (on Labour Day weekend!!). Not because I had to per se, but because I wanted to in and sort some stuff out. I'm glad I did because so far, this week has been insane. I expect it'll be like this until the end of this month. October can't get here quick enough for me.

So, as far as weighing in and wrapping up, here's the (bah!) "skinny" on me:

summary - week ending August 29

• no update. I was too sick to do anything or care much about it, I didn't even step on the scale!

summary - week ending September 5

• I did manage to take my vitamins 7 out of 7 days this week - I even remembered on the weekend!
  
• kept to my water goal, all week
  
• found that my chocolate craving can be temporarily dealt with, with fat free chocolate Jello Pudding
  
• did not post here, obviously
  
• eating was touch and go and I only tracked in fitday for two days last week
  
• I did not weigh in yesterday, probably this is a good thing because, on top of everything else, TOM started today.