I am now crawling into bed

Thanks to yesterday's bout of stomach flu, this is what I've eaten today:

• one banana
• three handfuls of generic brand Cheerios, and I have now decided it is worth the extra couple of bucks to buy ACTUAL Cheerios because YUCK
• one Vanilla Wafer (also, see note above, must start shelling out cash for national brand)
• one bowl of father-in-law-approved ramen noodles with an egg, something I haven't eaten since I was pregnant, due to my Carb Strike, and OH IT WAS DELICIOUS

My whole body aches, and not in a Shred kind of way but a "I bet you didn't have any IDEA how many muscles you use to throw up!" kind of way. And, as a special treat, both children were up all night long and it's been a rockin' good time in Camp Cheung LET ME TELL YOU.

Anyway, I was hoping to throw some actual Content up here (ooh! did you see that! throw UP! I slay me!) but like everything else I planned to do this week, Content is not going to happen. (And do you love how I refer to what I write here as Content? HEE.) You can go to Parenting tomorrow, though, where I am NOT complaining about Molly's six month portrait session. I KNOW. Oh, and I have half a post written for Hot By Thirty. Maybe I'll get around to finishing that tonight.

Can I just tell you how many VeggieTales Jack has seen in the last 48 hours? So many that I now know all the words to every song. I'm not against television, especially when a stomach flu mows down the entire family and Phillip is at a meeting (OH DID I MENTION THAT?) but I'm starting to wonder if the TV-watching is approaching Child Protective Services levels.

The silver lining to the whole stomach flu mess is the fact that I am now at my lowest adult weight EVER! Seven pounds went poof! overnight. And those of you who are opening the comment box rightthissecond to inform me that that's all water weight and should pop back up on the scale tomorrow morning are a bunch of KILL JOYS and what is with your need to destroy my one smidgen of cheer? And dudes, I EARNED those seven pounds. There were about two hours in there where I swear I was going to die, and was also comparing my situation to LABOR, without the benefit of insisting my husband drive me to the ER for a hit of morphine.

So! Any thoughts on how to maintain a seven pound water weight stomach bug-related weight loss?!

Comments

[blognerd]

don't eat and run 10 miles every day.

hope you feel better.

rota virus is circulating the country right now. we had ours and it stunk.

[Tracy]

TV watching during stomach bug is never against CPS standards. In fact, it is almost mandatory as a technique to keep the young ones alive while you are dying. (hope you feel ALL better soon!)

Mentioning Veggie Tales during a blog post is however hazardous to your reader's brain cells, which are now all humming the Hairbrush Song.

[Charlotte]

I'm hanging my head as I write this. You could do the step down that most do after a juice fast. Fresh juice to raw fresh fruits and veg to cooked vegan to healthier normal foods. Not that I'm in any way endorsing this.

[Carrie]

I'm so sorry you caught the bug. It's an evil one. Hope you all feel better soon!

[Lindsay]

Heh. You know, whenever I have the stomach flu (which, thankfully, is very, very rare as I am a wuss about nausea, but I can handle virtually anything else), I try to be all glass half-full about it and get excited about the weight loss and how to maintain it. Except people then look at me like I have a problem and need to be institutionalized. Then they keep a close eye on me to make sure that I actually eat. Psssh. Glad to know that I'm not the only opportunistic one.

[Jen]

Oh, yuck. I hope you feel better soon.

I've lost weight from the stomach flu before and it didn't come back easily. I hope yours does the same.

Generic cheerios are gross. Mine tasted salty. I forced myself to finish the bag though, because I am stingy. I should have thrown them away.

[Jess]

I think anorexia might help you with that. But I don't recommend it.

Also, generic brand Cheerios are GROSS. That's why I buy actual Cheerios at Costco.

[Kanuck]

Yuck, and I can sympathize. I had the same thing last week, and haven't felt that pathetically weak in years.
Hope you feel better soon!

[Meghan]

Maggie, I hope you feel better soon. When you feel better, just resume treadmill (look at you running for 30 minutes! I was in the ARMY and couldn't do that) and you will at least slow the pace of the regain, right? Sorry you got the sick, everyone here is sick now.