I’ve been sick with a stomach bug for the past few days which has been a bit yuck. It wasn’t that bad but I felt nauseous the whole time, and was really bloated and tired and sore. One of the bad things about being sick is the last thing I wanted to do was to think about or write about anything healthy, so this blog has been left a bit empty for quite some time!
Even worse, my sore belly made me turn my nose up at everything that I keep in my kitchen. For some reason, my stomach bug made me not want to eat any of my healthy food. All I wanted was sugar, cows milk, white bread, salt, a strong cup of caffeine tea and a piece of chocolate mud cake – none of these items I keep in my house. The site of my organic vegetables made me want to puke and the brown rice, beans and grains in my pantry would have to be forced down my throat. The only healthy food I could just get into me was spelt crackers, apples and oranges.
So, it’s been three days now and my diet has been really, really poor. I’ve allowed my body to eat whatever it can, which hasn’t been a lot. It’s been a lot of toast, crackers and fruit juice, and the occasional pasta, piece of fruit, chocolate and cookies. Today I visited my mum and I knew she’d have all the goods, so I gorged on english tea with cows milk, dark chocolate and choc chip cookies. What I’m most worried about is how this diet is going to affect my skin. My skin has been clearing up beautifully so hopefully this tummy bug sugar binge I had today won’t set me back a little. I figured, just a couple of days of sugar and stuff shouldn’t make a lot of difference 
but I’ll let you know if it does.
My belly is feeling much better today, so hopefully I’ll be better by tomorrow. I’m still turning my nose up at vegetables though. I wonder when I will return to my healthy self!?
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3 responses ↓
aww, sounds like comfort food is the what’s in order when you’re sick and sooky!
Fran all the things you describing in regards to wanting to vomit on all the healthy things was me to a tea in the first 6 months of being pregnant with Lotus. Instead of sugar though it was salty chips!!! it was the only thing I did not throw up. I was fully vegetarian then with No Dairy.
Now a mother I am eating bit of meat here & there plus organic milk is in the house along with my hidden stash of cookies for nights when all that will calm me is a cup of english tea & a cookie.
The body communicates on many levels in deed!
Hope you are feeling better soon.
xx
Mrs M
You know, I was thinking that when I was sick ..it was just like as if I was pregnant. THANKFULLY I wasn’t (to that imaginary man).
Something to look forward to though, feeling sick for 6 months, ~yay~
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