Starting Over Sucks
Well, it looks like, even though
I just restarted P90X for the fourth time this past Monday, that I will again be starting over. Starting this program over frustrates me to no end!
I started P90X over on Monday, the 7th. On Thursday morning, just a mere 4 days later, I started feeling just….blah, like I was starting to get a cold. I started taking Echinacea, thinking I would head off this funk, whatever it was. Nope, by Thursday afternoon, I could barely move, and by Friday morning, I was in really bad shape. My husband got home from work Friday morning, took one look at me and said, “You’re going to the doctor.” Needless to say, I have pneumonia (or so the doctor thought because he heard wheezing in my lungs, but didn’t send me for an x-ray) and an ear infection and had to be put on a “strong” (doc’s word) antibiotic. Blech! So I’ve spent much of the last few days on the couch (i.e., no working out).
Since I had only gotten in 3 workouts, I have decided just to start over again - for the fourth time since last summer. Last summer and early fall, every time I started P90X, I got sick about 5 weeks in and would have to stop for a couple weeks and then restart. When I had my sinus surgery this past November, I thought these issues were over. Well, I guess the sinus issues are over, just not the getting sick part. *sigh* This really, really frustrates me. I am now researching to see if there is some connection between weight training (stress on the body) weakening the immune system and what I can do about. In just doing a cursory search, I have found that “over training” does, in fact, weaken the immune system. I need to find some way to get around that issue.
Other than that, my eating is going well. I’m really proud of myself. I stopped eating all junk/processed foods last Monday and also quit drinking soda on the same day. The first three days I was pretty miserable, and definitely horrible to be around, but it got easier. I didn’t miss the junk food at all, but I sure did miss having a Pepsi every day….at first. Now I don’t even think about it, so I guess that’s something to be grateful about.
If anyone knows of a good way to keep myself from getting sick every time I start an intense weight training program such as P90X, please let me know.