{"id":12413,"date":"2010-11-07T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T15:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=12413"},"modified":"2010-11-07T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T15:43:44","slug":"down-and-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/11\/down-and-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Down and out"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hi gang! I’ve been away from the computer but not intentionally. Last Thursday I came down with some sort of stomach bug and have been ill since.\u00a0 The upside was that I was just nauseous and not actually expelling things from my body.\u00a0 I was flat out in bed all day Thursday and Friday.\u00a0 Yesterday was the first day where I was up on a normal schedule and not sleeping the day away.\u00a0 It was also the first day that I left the house.<\/p>\n

I had been living on canned soup (thank goodness for crappy canned soup!), crackers, and OJ.\u00a0 I was hungry but not able to eat much.\u00a0 My stomach couldn’t handle it, since it was still queasy and if I had to chew something more than twice I started getting gaggy.<\/p>\n

Being hungry and unable to eat sucks.\u00a0 Especially when you love food!<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening I was finally feeling on my way back to normal.\u00a0 I decided I’d had it with being sick and kicked sick to the curb!<\/p>\n

I made pan seared chicken breasts with gravy, mashed potatoes, and basic green beans.<\/p>\n

And I ATE a full plate!\u00a0 Then I had some chocolate and a wee (very wee!) splash of wine.<\/p>\n

After that I crashed hard in bed. Normally I wake up in the middle of the night for a bathroom run.\u00a0 Last night?\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 I was out from 11pm to 6am (or the old 7am).\u00a0 That’s a lot of straight sleep for me!<\/p>\n

I dedicated today as the last day of “rest” before getting back into action.\u00a0 I miss working (seriously!) and I miss working out.\u00a0 Today when I got up I was starving and I wanted to eat.<\/p>\n

Progress!<\/p>\n

I felt normal.\u00a0 I had a yogurt mess with some coffee.\u00a0 I haven’t had coffee in days because I couldn’t handle it.\u00a0 Today I cherished that cup of coffee.\u00a0 I walked Rocky and then had even more food.<\/p>\n

Hooray!<\/p>\n

Being sick stinks no matter what.\u00a0 But for me, the worst is being able to not eat.\u00a0 I love eating.\u00a0 I love food.\u00a0 I love being able to enjoy the foods that make me and my body happy.<\/p>\n

When I can’t eat, I get really bummed out.\u00a0 When I can’t workout, I get really bummed out.<\/p>\n

Now it’s time to enjoy being able to do all those things again!<\/p>\n

How do you handle being sick? Does it bum you out as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi gang! I’ve been away from the computer but not intentionally. Last Thursday I came down with some sort of stomach bug and have been ill since.\u00a0 The upside was that I was just nauseous and not actually expelling things from my body.\u00a0 I was flat out in bed all day Thursday and Friday.\u00a0 Yesterday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58,52],"tags":[53],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3ed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}