False Start: Getting sick and ruining my plans

So as I mentioned in a previous blog my New Years Resolution was to get fit this year. I decided that I would do it this year though I've been promising myself this resolution for years. I made this decision well before the New Year, back before the holidays started, and I had good intentions. I cleaned out some cobwebs from my mental closets, things I've been holding on to for years thoughts and insecurities that have kept me heavy, I bought a stationary bike, we moved back to my hometown a place where I feel happy and secure, and I was totally prepped and finally ready to get serious and do this, but a few days before the New Year I got INCREDIBLY sick.

I have strep throat it's the worst case of strep throat I've had in memory, and the sickest I've been probably since my daughter was born. When I was a child I got strep throat once or twice a year every year. The last time I had it my doctor told me the very NEXT time I got strep he would be removing my tonsils, and so I didn't get it any more until I became an adult. I'm still fairly sick but I still plan on doing this it's just starting a bit later then I had planned. My momentum and energy level has failed and I think that's probably partially due to still being fairly sick. Last night was the first time that I looked up from my fog and thought... "Wow I'm feeling a little better!" So hopefully I'm about to kick this and I'll be able to get started soon.

This has been another problem with letting my weight get completely out of control, my immune system has always kind of been armed with cardboard shields and tinfoil swords, but since I let my weight take over my life I've been fair game for EVERY cold, sniffle, stomach bug, and general ickies that come along. This is terrible because almost everything I get exposed to I get. It compounds the problem of my weight, because I don't feel well enough to be active, and I'm giving my family prolonged exposure to all of this sickness too! So this is yet another reason that I've got to pick myself up and get some of this weight off.