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Wow, this evening around 10pm or so I started to get some really bad stomach cramps and a stomach ache.  It wasn’t from the food I ate though.  I think it’s the flu.  My wife had the flu exactly one week ago and it started with the exact same symptoms on the first day.  I thought I dodged it when I didn’t get it, but now it’s looking like maybe I didn’t.

It probably doesn’t help that everyone at work, and I mean everyone has it as well.  Everyone’s at different stages of the flu, but pretty much every person has it except me, until now.  It just started off with these annoying cramps that I still have right now.

At around 11:15pm I thought about skipping my workout for tonight, due to the cramping and nausea.  The only thing that feels good is sitting still.  I actually fell asleep on the couch and woke up just after midnight.  The cramps were still there, and I wondered what I should do.  I’ve been doing so well, working out every single day, I didn’t want to give up that easily.

I decided to try going on the treadmill and see what happens.  I kept the pace slow and light and even though I wanted to give up about 423 times especially when a bout of stomach cramps came around, I managed to get through the 30 minutes at a slightly slower pace than normal, finishing at around 1.45 miles or so.

I then did a lighter version of my upper body workout as well.

Here’s what it looked like:

Bench Press:

Set #1: 100lbs x 8 reps
Set #2: 100lbs x 8 reps
Set #3: 100lbs x 12 reps

Bicep Curls:
Set #1: 40lbs x 10 reps
Set #2: 20lbs x 8 reps
Set #3: 20lbs x 12 reps

Tricep Reverse Curls:
Set #1: 20lbs x 8 reps

 That’s all the strength I could muster up.

For food today I had the following:

Breakfast:
Nothing

Lunch:
Big Salad - Lettuce, mixed greens, baby spinach, green onions, red pepper, radishes, cherry tomatoes, avacado, cucumber, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts, flax seed and some sprinkled on dehydrated cranberries.

Snacks:
One Organic Apple
One Organic Grapefruit

Dinner:

For dinner my wife made me this awesome vegetable stirfry made with cauliflower, broccoli, green peppers, red peppers, zukhini, onion, garlic, ginger, bragg liquid amino’s, black bean sauce, oyster sauce, with a bit of brown rice. Here’s a picture:

It was really good.  Mmmm…