NO MORE GETTING SICK IN 2009!

Monday, January 12, 2009

Last year, I was sick WAY too often. This has got to stop!

It’s just the beginning of 2009 and already I’m down for the count. Right now, I’m in the throes of food poisoning. It all started with some lasagna from the restaurant Palermo on Vermont in the Los Feliz neighborhood. While their pizza was delicious, their lasagna was...well, not so good. I kept wondering “wow, blue cheese in lasagna? What an interesting choice!” But no, it wasn’t blue cheese. It was BAD cheese.

From that night til now (roughly 3.5 days later), I have yet to hold down any real food. As you know, I LOVE to eat. This past couple of days has been torture! Thanks to Dennis and my friends from church, I have been sustained with soups and electrolyte-laden drinks. Still, it’s been a pretty miserable weekend.

Today I’m working from home, in close proximity to the bathroom (what? too much info?) and hoping to get better today before my doctors appointment. I love seeing doctors for nothing. I’m sure nothing makes them happier than to have a patient for whom nothing can or should be done. But going through this brought me to an epiphany: I’M NOT HEALTHY!

That’s right. How often was I sick last year? How healthy do I eat? How long has it been since I exercised regularly? Hmmmm can’t remember. I think it was a year after college...and that was a long time ago! I used to exercise to lose weight. And then when I got to a point where I thought I didn’t need to lose weight, I stopped working out. I think the lack of activity has suppressed my immune system and made my little sicknesses last WAY longer than they need to!

(Shaking a righteous fist toward the heavens) SO NO MORE GETTING SICK THIS YEAR! I’M SICK OF BEING SICK! I VOW TO FIGHT YOU, BACTERIA! YOU SHALL NOT BE WELCOME HERE ANYMORE! I SHALL EXERCISE!

(wow is someone gonna hold me to that?)

1. Let’s hold each other to that!  I figure the least I can do Wii Fit… and some running… jogging… uh, walking ;)

   Posted by  on  01/12  at  03:17 PM

2. Kathy,

   Not to put a damp to your pledge to live healthier but I don’t think more exercise nor better diet could have eased the food poisoning especially caused by any animal products including dairy.
   You just have to vomit or shit it out of your system with or without shivering fevers.

   I am sure your GI track is as clean as it can possibly be which is a good start for the new year?

   Anyway it was good to see you briefly.
   You are hot hot hot and interesting.
   I wish you the best in your prime years (next 6-8 yrs) Choose wisely and aim high!!!!

   Marika

   Posted by  on  01/12  at  04:21 PM

3. hahahha… i was gonna say, i’d hold you to that but i live too far!  but i guess if daryl can hold you to that, so can i =) i’m excited you want to be active!  we should plan some weekend activities now…

   Posted by kimi =)  on  01/12  at  10:19 PM

4. For diet, all the women in the office are “trying” to read the book “Skinny Bitch”.  Aside from the colorful language used in this “lifestyle” change book, it really sounds very close to traditional SDA stuff.  Check it out on Amazon.  ;) Hope you feel better.  At least you’re close to the bathroom and not really WORKING in the bathroom.  Whew!

   Kenny

   Posted by  on  01/12  at  11:21 PM

5. Kat, your heart doesn’t care if you’re a little plump.  It DOES care whether you keep it toned.  There are plenty of thin people in the world who aren’t fit, but you don’t have to be one of them!

   And now I have to work out - what a hypocrite.

   Posted by  on  01/15  at  05:33 PM