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lighterthanairThree guesses, and the first two don't count.
I blame this all on the stomach bug I had the other week. I got so used to not having an appetite and to experiencing pain when I ate that I think my appetite just stayed firmly away. And for the past few days I've felt dead on my feet, have slept for 10 hours a night, and can't eat anything without feeling like I'm going to be sick. And that's if I feel like eating at all.
I think I just got a little too used to not eating while I was ill.
So I'm taking it slow. Lots of tiny little meals, as often as I can throughout the day, until I can handle something resembling regular meals again. A little bit of soup here, a granola bar there. If it has nutrition and I can eat even a little bit of it, I will. The hard part is remembering not to eat too much at a time, and to not go nuts with heavier foods until my stomach can handle it again.
Thankfully I still have some delicious potato-and-leek soup in, which seems to be something I can eat no matter how lousy I feel.
The lack of food is definitely causing my lack of energy, though. Sleeping for 10 hours a night, and feeling half-dead at work. I bought myself a bottle of Coke on Tuesday, to see if the caffeine would give me a boost and wake me up, but after a few sips all I got was the beginning of a headache. I still have about 3/4 of the bottle sitting on my desk. It'll probably last me for the rest of the week. But at least it's there if I need it.
So tired of being sick. :/ If it's not one thing, it's another. I know how down that sounds, but it's kind of how I feel at the moment. I get one thing under control and a seasonal illness hits me. I recover from that but it throws off my long-term groove and I have to readjust. I readjust and get that stomach bug, which makes me not eat much and get tired and have a hard time getting through the day. Rinse and repeat.
My kingdom for a work-from-home editing or data entry job. Or a winning lottery ticket. I'm fine with any of those options.
But, just have to keep pushing through it. Three more shifts and then it's my weekend, and if I have to spend that weekend doing nothing but sleeping and resting in order to make it through the next week, then so be it. It may seem lazy, but it beats trying to push myself too hard and just using up energy I don't have and making myself sicker. I just got regular hours back at work, and I want to prove to them that I can handle it. If I can go until the end of January without calling in sick, that'll be a vast improvement!
But for now I'll get my energy from this delicious hot chocolate, and then head out to work. One day at a time.
I blame this all on the stomach bug I had the other week. I got so used to not having an appetite and to experiencing pain when I ate that I think my appetite just stayed firmly away. And for the past few days I've felt dead on my feet, have slept for 10 hours a night, and can't eat anything without feeling like I'm going to be sick. And that's if I feel like eating at all.
I think I just got a little too used to not eating while I was ill.
So I'm taking it slow. Lots of tiny little meals, as often as I can throughout the day, until I can handle something resembling regular meals again. A little bit of soup here, a granola bar there. If it has nutrition and I can eat even a little bit of it, I will. The hard part is remembering not to eat too much at a time, and to not go nuts with heavier foods until my stomach can handle it again.
Thankfully I still have some delicious potato-and-leek soup in, which seems to be something I can eat no matter how lousy I feel.
The lack of food is definitely causing my lack of energy, though. Sleeping for 10 hours a night, and feeling half-dead at work. I bought myself a bottle of Coke on Tuesday, to see if the caffeine would give me a boost and wake me up, but after a few sips all I got was the beginning of a headache. I still have about 3/4 of the bottle sitting on my desk. It'll probably last me for the rest of the week. But at least it's there if I need it.
So tired of being sick. :/ If it's not one thing, it's another. I know how down that sounds, but it's kind of how I feel at the moment. I get one thing under control and a seasonal illness hits me. I recover from that but it throws off my long-term groove and I have to readjust. I readjust and get that stomach bug, which makes me not eat much and get tired and have a hard time getting through the day. Rinse and repeat.
My kingdom for a work-from-home editing or data entry job. Or a winning lottery ticket. I'm fine with any of those options.
But, just have to keep pushing through it. Three more shifts and then it's my weekend, and if I have to spend that weekend doing nothing but sleeping and resting in order to make it through the next week, then so be it. It may seem lazy, but it beats trying to push myself too hard and just using up energy I don't have and making myself sicker. I just got regular hours back at work, and I want to prove to them that I can handle it. If I can go until the end of January without calling in sick, that'll be a vast improvement!
But for now I'll get my energy from this delicious hot chocolate, and then head out to work. One day at a time.