A few weeks ago, my son was hospitalized and when he got out, due to stress and many other things, I was down with the flu. The virus pinned me down to the bed and the sofa for more than a week. Good thing, my VAs are superb workers so they did their duties unsupervised. While I was in and out of consciousness, hubby took care of the kids and the household.
The culprits – so much stress about everything and diet. The stress need not be explained because each of us have our own dilemma about something that makes life uncomfortable and unhappy. The diet coupled with working til wee hours in the morning was a major failure. I’m not even supposed to sleep late coz I have Diabetes and in tandem with Hyperthyroidism, I could die earlier than expected. I was a total nuts to even have slept at 5am for 5 consecutive days!
My immune system complained for lack of proper nutrients due to dieting and my body weakened for lack of sleep. I didn’t realize both are not a good combination until it was too late. I wasn’t taking any diet medications though I heard of some pills that could hasten the fat reduction like Lipofuze, I ate only cereals and fibrous fruits during breakfast because I can’t skip meals or else I’d tremble and loose consciousness coz of low sugar.
When I was finally up on my feet, I took a vow to take care of myself better. I continued eating the diet cereals and fruits BUT sleeping late is now a big NO-NO. I have insomnia since I was in high school so imagine how hard it is to sleep before midnight. Now, I’m in bed by 11:30 and would you believe snoring by midnight! I’m a sucker for afternoon siestas, now, I have to keep my eyes wide open in the aftie so i can sleep earlier at night.
And so I’m back and kicking hard as ever! I have lots of pending projects that needs immediate attention plus of course, I have to earn back what I have lost during those days I was sick. I don’t wanna be sick ever! Let’s all take care of ourselves so we can enjoy the fruits of our labor not in the hospital but with our family 🙂
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Hello mommy eihdra, meron po akong ishshare sa inyo to health in maintaining your health kung okay lang po. email ko na lang po sa FB. Take care always. 🙂
okay, thanks Val!