The roller-coaster :)

There is a high to report today :) Today's starting weight was a whopping 340 gms less than yesterday's starting weight ! I'm sure it is because I ate just salad for dinner last night :)

It has been a trying week ! I have been struggling with my health. Ironical isn't it, considering that I started going to the gym for exactly that reason - my health ! Last night I was feeling so frustrated...here I am...determined to exercise regulary and lose weight, but right in the first week of resuming exercise, I am being thrown too many challenges at the same time :(

I was so ill last evening...I was pretty sure that I was coming down with fever and would have to miss gym today. I didn't feel like eating anything. But since I had to take medicines, I had to eat. So I chopped up one cucumber, one tomato (from my garden..ahem !) and a few lettuce leaves. Just tossed them together, without any seasoning. It was one bowl full. Don't worry, that was sufficient...I'm not starving myself :)

I slept at 10:30 p.m. last night. This morning, I woke up feeling better. I went to the gym and got a pleasant surprise with the starting weight. But the difference betweek the starting and ending weight was 10 gms less than yesterday. Seriously, I don't get this pattern...or lack of it...at all !

After I returned from gym, I progressively started feeling worse and feverish. I plodden on...got ready for office...and then suddenly decided to sleep a bit...and I did...for an hour. When I woke up, I was feeling terrible...I didn't feel like getting out of bed. But I did. Came to office. Felt horrible all morning...took a tablet for fever since my temperature was definitely above 99°.

As I went for lunch, I was shivering...and mentally feeling very low. So I succumbed and had half a bowl of warm shevai kheer. Now I'll have to compensate by having salad tonight and exercising a bit more tomorrow !

While returning from lunch, I was suddenly very sweaty due to the fever tablet and now I'm feeling a little better, although the nasty cold and cough are still there. I think I'll leave office early today..around 5:00 p.m. There's one more day of gym to go through in this week. Luckily tomorrow and Sunday are the weekly offs.

Today and yesterday in the gym my instructor N sidled up to me and very softly asked, "You're going to be regular from now onwards, na ?" I replied, "Yes of course" both times to which today she said, "See, lets wait for a month and then lets take the measurements, OK ?" I just smiled, realising the veiled hint :)

You know, I've noticed that in the gym everybody casts quick, surreptitious glances at each other's exercycle / treadmill / cross-trainer dashboard...and if they're doing better than you, then there's this slight sense of competition..."iski level / speed meri level / speed se jyada kaise ?" :)))

I'm beginning to enjoy being in the gym...today was a good day in the gym at least...lets see tomorrow if I can make up the weekly target of 750 gms...I'm already down by 670 gms...if 80 gms more can be achieved tomorrow, I'm sorted for the week :)