Dear Diary Thursday....

Not such a good day. I ended up finally coming down with a cold. This always happens when I start back to the gym, usually the first week. I view it as my immune's systems way of building up a defense against every known disease that creeps around the gym due to all of the little children and adults who can not, and refuse, to wash their hands. I ended up toughing it out at work yesterday, came home and was in bed by 6:30, made it in to work today, but left at 10:00 am. I decided that I would "allow" myself to be sick for this day and then tomorrow, back to the grind and push my way through it. I will be back at the gym tomorrow with the same vigor I have had this week. Unfortunately, Dylan has got a cold and it is REALLY bad. He has the icky voice, sore throat, and just has it really bad. And with him, I always worry that it will go into bronchitis, which he holds on to for months at a time. Therefore, he is not allowed to go out and play for the entire weekend and I hope that will help him get rid of it. We both stayed in our warm houses today and slept the entire day.

Good news....I have not been eating the normally junkier food since I started going back to the gym. However, if I have a craving, like for chocolate, I have a piece of chocolate....not the whole vat. One thing I have learned from all of my reading, if your body is saying it wants something, there is a reason for it. And if you deny your body all the time, that is when you start having a problem with binging.

Speaking of the gym, I saw the most amazing woman at the gym! She had an incredibly curvy figure and here is the best part....I fell in love with her hair!!!! She had a longer bob and it was dark brown underneath and the top was pieced through with striking blond and it looked incredible! Plus, she and I continuously smiled at each other when we were in the track. I love the fact that the majority of the people at my gym are so gracious and so genuinely nice....always smiling! I even had a large group of Polynesian men all yell at me "Thank you honey" when their basketball made its way up to the track during the game they were playing. No snickering, no meanness...they were just nice. I love that! I think alot of this is coming from within, wanting to be more positive about the world, about myself, about life in general. It is a fact that what you radiate outwards is drawn towards you. Therefore, I am radiating my true spirit...the one that is strength, that is vibrant, that is beautiful, that is energetic, that is full of positive life and I can see it coming back already.

Positive thought for the day: It is okay to allow yourself to be sick, just view it as a learning experience for your immune system and know that you are stronger for it.