Move It Mama Monday - I'm Sick!

I have been soooo sick the past week. The cold I picked up right before my trip to Vegas turned into a full-blown sinus infection. I oozed the most disgusting grey-green snot all last week. It was really strange too. I had one day, Wednesday, when I actually felt all right, and I tried to do my normal routine. Then Thursday morning came with a double whammy of leaky sinuses and massive headache and I could barely crawl out of bed. In fact, I believe I declared that day a Blow Off Day and celebrated it accordingly.

I am still not fully recovered - I sound a lot like Donald Duck, I'm so stuffed up - but I am feeling a bit better. But last week, I was led to question the idea of exercising while sick.

If you've never tried the Wii Fit before, it has this little motivational character that looks like the Wii Fit balance board on speed. This cheerful little anthropomorphized tyrant likes to prod users along, urging them to do the Body Test every day, even if you can't find time to exercise. We've had the Wii Fit a month now, and the only days I've missed doing that body test were the days I was in Vegas, and there was just no way possible I could zip across county to do the test (and I sure as hell wasn't carting that thing with me to Vegas!). But otherwise, even when sick and jetlagged, I hopped on the balance board to be weighed and have my balance checked. It was a little discouraging. Wii Fit doesn't care if you're sick and you've decided to starve a fever and stuff your face. However, I realized that if I hopped onto the Wii Fit to do the Body Test, chances where pretty good that I'd stay on at least 10 minutes longer to do the balance games or even a little light cardio (some of the step games are easy enough that even sick, I could do them without getting winded).

I also discovered that just by doing the balance games alone, I could still work up a bit of a sweat. Balancing takes a lot of muscles strength. So I didn't get the full blown workouts I had built myself up to over the last couple of weeks on the Wii Fit, but I did get some exercise in, and that was better than nothing.

Today, I went back to the usual routine - 4 minutes of hula hooping to warm up, 15 minutes of yoga, 20 minutes of cardio, 10 minutes of balance games. The only down side to being sick that I've noticed is that somehow I can no longer do the hula hooping games so well. I'll have to build back up to my original high scores. But I'll get there. And best yet?

I've lost 3 pounds in the last four weeks. Not a huge drop, but a steady one, and if I can keep it up, I'll eventually get back to my ideal weight.

Just in time to get pregnant again ;)

Blow Off Day Again!

I hereby officially declare today to be Blow Off Day. I've been struggling with jet lag, a sinus infection, and finances all week. I thought I had at least two of these things licked yesterday (not the finances, at least not yet), but then the Hubster pulled out a movie rental and said, "Hey, let's watch Iron Man!"

So we stayed up way too late to watch the first half of Iron Man and I have this to say about the movie. Iron Man is a very good movie, but not good enough for me to stay up late a second night in the row so I can feel wasted on Friday. Don't get me wrong. I really, really enjoyed the movie, but I really, really hate feeling like crap when I've got a mountain of work confronting me.

I tried getting up at 5AM this morning, like I'm supposed to, and I swear I felt body parts drop off of me as I shuffled zombie-like into the bathroom. So I gathered up everything that fell off and piled back into bed. Then I dragged myself out again at 7AM to get the Princess up and going. I managed to launch her out the door with the Hubster by 8AM, and then I went back to bed.

Pixie woke up some time between 8 and 9. I lay dying in my bed while she puttered around in her room. Then at some point I opened my eyes and found her staring at me over the edge of the bed. She cuddled with me for a while, got bored with her mother the corpse, and then ran into my closet, pulled out the clothes I'd left hanging on the door knob, and told me to "GET DRESSED!"

I did not get dressed, but I did get up. Pixie has been fed, and I comforted myself with a veggie eggroll and a hot cup of tea before collapsing back on the couch again. I'm slowly starting to come to life. I think I may have a hot bath, a spin on the Wii Fit to do the body test, and then... Well hell, I don't know. I need to keep going on my finances, getting bank statements entered and pulling together tax info. I need to write a short story. I need to get to work on a cartoon. I've got a to do list a mile long, but the couch is so comfy and I'm so tired. And did I mention I'm oozing green snot?

Yeah, it's Blow Off Day for sure.