Halth Trek Day 35

Tonight is weigh in night again. Unfortunately, I have been feeding the cold, not starving the fever. Why is it that when we feel bad, we eat more. Part of the problem is that I have done the lazy thing all week and just grabbed the easiest thing to eat because I didn't feel like making an effort. So we shall face the music and know if I gain, the reason why...
While I am in confession mode, I must admit that I have not done the exercises I planned either. So today, I plan to start over and stick to the plan. I will eat a healthy breakfast, then do my exercise right away before the day changes all my plans. Yesterday I had planned to stay home and get some housework done, but my cell phone died and I had to go into town to get a new sim card. Then my daughter's car broke down and I had to help her out so I came home and did nothing. My head was stuffed up and I was feeling very sorry for myself so headed for the fridge. You know the rest of the story, we've all been there.
I then remembered that my ear, nose and throat doctor had given me some packets and bottle to rinse my sinuses with and thought maybe that would help. I am very squeamish about having to do anything that concerns putting foreign objects in any orifice in my body like eye drops, ear drops, dental cleanings, etc. It took me five years to learn to gargle as a kid because I was convinced I would choke to death. Taking pills was a major accomplishment in my life and I did not learn to choke them down until my mother started making me chew cod liver oil capsules, Yuck! Last year my dental assistant persuaded me to buy an electric toothbrush and it was 3 months before I could convince myself to try it. The thought of something electric mixed with water and putting it in my mouth made me shudder. Now I love it and my dental exams produce less lectures on not flossing properly. So you can imagine my hesitation when I had to pour a saline solution in my nostril and let it drain out the other side. If you have your head raised too much, it will go in your throat and that is not the correct way according to the instructions. Do not swallow the liquid it says. When something is in my mouth, my instincts are to swallow. So what happens if I do swallow? Will I die? Anyway, after about 30 minutes of reading the directions and reading them again, my head still pounding, I thought oh what the heck. Dying seemed not so bad with my head pounding as it was, so I took the plunge and poured the stuff in my nose. For about an hour after this procedure, I needed to blow my nose (gently, according to the instructions, without squeezing the nostrils). My headache disappeared and I felt better. My daughter told me that she uses a "Neti Pot" to cleanse her sinuses. This is a little miniature teapot that looks like if you rubbed it a genie would appear. She saw them advertised on the Dr. Oz show and has been cleansing her sinuses ever since. I have to begrudgingly admit it seems to work. All you need to do is mix some sea salt in warm water and flush it through your nostrils once or twice a day. If it prevents a sinus infection, I guess it is worth the effort.
I am off to do my exercise and eat my healthy breakfast!
Rock On!

Poem for today: I have heard parts of this poem all my life, but had never read it in its entirety until I downloaded "The 12 poems All Kids Should Know" on my Kindle. I never realized these words were the wisdom of Rudyard Kipling whom I had admired as a child when I first read "Kim"

If
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.
If you can dream- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools.
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them 'Hold on!'
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings- nor lose the common touch.
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And- which is more- you'll be a Man, my son!
By Rudyard Kipling

Plan for today:
Breakfast, one egg, toast and fruit.
Snack: pear
Lunch: chicken soup
No snack, off to TOPS
Dinner: zucchini quesadilla
Snack: low cal ice cream bar

Exercise: Yoga this morning and Mr. G's list.
Walk, weather permitting.