Oh how I wish I could tell you my little blogging hiatus this week was a romantic getaway with a hottie oil Baron... no such luck. Sometime on Thursday I started to feel cruddy. You know that "Uh oh, I think I'm getting sick" feeling... achy, headache, overall crappy feeling. I popped some Tylenol and went to bed early. The next morning I felt pretty good. I had a plan to mow the lawn (aka weeds that have taken over my lawn) We had several weeks of rain and now we're in the middle of a little heatwave 70's and 80's so the lawn was getting scary, strange weeds and flowers from the neighbors yard are taking over any grass I once had. I mowed it and the plan was to hit Lowe's and figure out what I could spread on it to help the grass win the battle for the yard. So I mowed the front and at about the halfway mark of the back I was feeling cruddy again. I finished but I was super woozy and my head was pounding. I wiped down the mower, came in took a shower, tried to do a few things but it was no use... sweating, nauseous, pounding head, I curled up in a ball in bed and that is where I have been for the past few days. Aliens took over my body and threw a great big rager. The low-lights: No solid food would stay in my body for 3 days. I don't remember much of Saturday. Sunday, I felt like I had gone 12 rounds with Muhammad Ali, Mike Tyson, and George Foreman combined.
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Yesterday, I started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I can't really do the typical BRAT thing (bananas, rice, applesauce, toast) considering 2 of the 4 things I don't eat post weight loss surgery (
no rice, no bread) and applesauce never sounds appealing when I'm sick. Someone explain the applesauce thing to me please... apples go right through me normally so tell me how applesauce will help when I can't keep anything in me?! Don't get that one at all. Anyway... so that left bananas and I figured some good bacteria in yogurt might help so I made myself a Banana Lassi. I sipped it slowly and it went well. So later I had another and after the third I felt brave enough to try
some Fish and sliced Cucumbers in yogurt sauce (Tzatiki-ish)... that went well too. Thank goodness.
Ways you know I was really sick... no coffee for 4 days, no
Farmer's Market, I was barely on the computer (I apologize for the 413 and counting unanswered emails)
My favorite things while I was sick...
Sunbeam Electric Throw (a Christmas gift from my Mum), Cottonelle Aloe & E Toilet Paper (TMI),
Romantic Comedies, and my Banana Lassi creation...
Shelly's Chocolate Banana Lassi 1 cup Vanilla Soy Milk (or Regular Milk)
3 oz. Greek Yogurt (I used plain 2%)
1/2 frozen Banana
1 Tablespoon Sugar Free Chocolate Pudding Mix, dry
1 Tablespoon
Sugar Free Torani Syrup (SF Vanilla, Almond, Chocolate all work great)
2-3 cubes of Ice
1-2 Tablespoons Almond Meal/Flour (optional)
Whiz in blender till smooth. After the first one went well I added Almond Meal/Flour (which is just finely ground almonds: Meal = skins on, Flour = skins off) to the mixture to start preparing myself for food again. I started with 1 Tablespoon and then added a little more to make it a little heartier.
So I'm here, emerging from this alien invasion. Testing the waters slowly, trying to regain some strength, and saying hello to my cyber pals. Hello. I missed you. Get your flu shot because you don't want whatever this was.