{"id":35153,"date":"2012-11-28T08:04:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=35153"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:35:13","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T23:35:13","slug":"comfort-in-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=35153","title":{"rendered":"Comfort in Sickness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was sick with that nasty cold the week before Thanksgiving, I went to the grocery store for three things: cold medicine to knock me out, a big jug of Odwalla orange juice and a carton of ice cream. I won’t lie. When I’m sick I immediately want comfort food. I want soup–tomato or chicken broth and noodles. I want carbs like bread. And I want ice cream. I told myself it was because I had a sore throat and the ice cream would feel good on my raw throat (true) but it was also just me reverting back to older times when I used food to feel better.<\/p>\n

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The good news was that I didn’t have much of an appetite while I was sick, and couldn’t really taste most of the food so I was within my calorie range each day. To be honest, I counted my calories but didn’t care about them too much. I was under 2000 and that was fine with me. \u00a0So while I did indulge in some ice cream, I didn’t go completely crazy.<\/p>\n

I also took about 5 days off from the gym. It was a long time for me! I can’t remember the last time I took that much time off in a row. I found that laying around watching tv for a week with my box of kleenex, glass of orange juice and bottle of Nyquil made my body hurt. The lack of activity felt weird. Every time I got up and moved around I felt it in my joints and my muscles felt weak. It was not fun!<\/p>\n

Thankfully I don’t get sick too often now. I usually get a cold in February or March and then October or November. So I was right on schedule. \ud83d\ude42 When I lost my weight and got healthy, including a regular exercise program, the constant sicknesses that I had went away. I used to be sick all the time. I had at least one or two outbreaks of bronchitis a year on top of colds and general malaise. Losing weight and eating healthy most definitely improved my immune system!<\/p>\n

I was too sick to care that I was picking up my old habit of using ice cream to make myself feel better. Once I felt better, I thought about what I did. Why was it so easy to revert back? Why are old habits so easy to pick back up? Laziness? I don’t know.<\/p>\n

I also wanted to check in with all of you guys. Did you read my post:\u00a0Nutritional Challenges and a Challenge<\/a>? Did you take me up on my challenge? And if yes, how did it go?<\/p>\n

So what about you? When you’re sick, do you give in to comfort foods to make yourself feel better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was sick with that nasty cold the week before Thanksgiving, I went to the grocery store for three things: cold medicine to knock me out, a big jug of Odwalla orange juice and a carton of ice cream. I won’t lie. When I’m sick I immediately want comfort food. I want soup–tomato or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4967,75,1816,106,1665,214,243],"tags":[5507,1741,6617,700,5752,8718],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35153"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35225,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35153\/revisions\/35225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}