Seven days. Seven days of commitment. Seven days of sickness (ok, maybe six for that). The week may not be perfect, but it’s been seven days!
Seven (ish) days of Sickness
I am so sick of coughing! It started about a week ago with waking up with a hoarse and raspy voice. Followed by waking up with a sore throat. Both of those symptoms dissipated throughout the days. But each morning they were back. Hello sinus drainage! But then about day 3 I picked up a cough. A dry hacking cough. Still, I am reasonably sure it is caused by the sinus drainage irritating my throat and whatever else it irritates. (It surely irritates me mentally!). Thankfully, I don’t feel bad. If anything maybe a bit more tired. I know I napped a bit more than normal over the weekend. But that could be due to the cough keeping me awake all night! I have no runny nose, no continual sore throat, no sore ears, no aches and pains, no fever….just this drainage and cough. I caved and started taking a cough suppressant to sleep, which helped. I also take some through my work day…which also helps. I hate taking meds but dang…..this cough is enough to drive me crazy! And I sit here coughing like all get out, so I will be taking it again this morning!
Seven Days of Commitment
This morning I started my day by opening MyFitnessPal and entering in my planned food for the day. I got the celebration notification that I have tracked for 7 days. Go me! Seven days of commitment to this journey. I haven’t been perfect. My calories are above where I typically like them to be. But my calories are at least close to where I want them to be, which right now I am calling a win. (I notice that each day I am getting closer and closer without any huge deprivation or struggle…it’s happening naturally!). I have had some victories, such as not touching the candy jar at work. (The candy jar had become a huge habit!). I have not been perfect. I did have a cupcake at work the other day. However, I tracked each and every bite. I even tracked the cough drops that I am utilizing for the aforementioned cough. Brutal honesty with myself.
I don’t really like tracking. I would love to be free as a bird and not have to pay any attention to my food intake. Free as a bird obviously doesn’t work for me! I need that dose of reality to remind me exactly what I am eating. And as I am seeing from these last seven days, just being cognizant of what I am eating and the fact that what I eat has to go into the tracker (no ifs ands or buts) seems to really resonate within me!
Here is to seven more days!!! Seven more of tracking that is…the cough can go to H. E. Double hockey sticks!
