On Tuesday night a migraine hit me, so that explained why I had been feeling so rough. It has been a pretty mild one thankfully, but very persistent – I have not had a moments break from it.

Jump to yesterday when I was feeling a lot better and hadn’t had any visual disturbances in over 24 hours – and I woke up feeling like death, sore throat, swollen glands and a runny nose! So now it looks like I have come down with a cold or bug of some sort.

Argh.

I hate working out as you well know and I am not going to lie and say I don’t enjoy having time off from it, but I do get antsy when I can’t work out for this long and I’d take being healthy and working out over being ill any day!

I am always on the look out for new weight loss and general health communities to join online, I have found them really useful over the last three years that I have been on this weight loss journey.

The first one I discovered was pretty basic, just allowing you to track your weight, have a profile and blog – then around a year later I found another one that was much bigger and had so much information, as well as food logs, exercise logs, tools to help you find out what calories you should be consuming each day and some really active forums.

I recently came across another one as well at www.wellnessdaily.com and it seems like it’s going to suit me down to the ground. They have so many articles covering many subjects from how to lose weight to how to keep it off once you reach your goals – this is something I need to start thinking about looking into myself.

They also have loads of videos, including one from Jillian Michaels on how to get the best out of a Kettlebell which I am watching right now, I have wanted to have a go with Kettlebells ever since I saw them on the first UK series of The Biggest Loser.

Wellnessdaily.com also have a contest going on at the moment via Twitter where you can win gym memberships and a years supply of Jennie-o turkey among other things – you can read all the information about how to enter that by following this link.

I don’t think Wellnessdaily is going to take over from my favourite community just yet as they don’t have many interactive features but with so many articles and constantly updating content it’s definitely going into my bookmarks folder

I have been at this for over 2 years now and have always been completely motivated, I rarely take days off so to take a whole week off is crazy for me.

But I am finding it so hard to shift weight at the moment, I have only lost a mere 5lbs in the last three months. For two weeks I was working out at least two hours per day and still stepping on that scale on a Sunday and seeing no change.

This week I didn’t work out and I saw the same thing, no loss, no gain — so why should I feel bad about it. It may even help me and next week when I kick it up a notch again I might actually shift some weight. Who knows? But it loved having the week off, so there.

Normally I would eat four cookies in about four months.

The following day I got smacked down with the mother of all migraines, I was completely wiped out — not even getting out of bed — for three days. I thought I was feeling better so tried a little go on Wii Fit but it caused me to totally relapse.

I do feel a little better now but although I want to work out, I don’t want to risk setting it off again…so will probably continue not working out for at least a few more days.

It’s been a week already since I last worked out.

It is weigh in time in around an hour, I am not looking forward to it one bit.

So I was pleased when I came across the Personalized flash drives from Pexagon Tech, giving a regular flash drive as a gift is not very interesting let’s be honest, it’s a purely practical thing and not the sort of gift I would normally give – but add in the ability to make it personal and I am sold, as well as being able to select the colour and size, you can get both sides engraved absolutely free – plus if you follow the link I posted above you can get an extra 20% off, meaning you can get the ideal Father’s day gift for as little as $8.79.

Heck I want one myself, a nice shocking pink one from my other half on our anniversary would be perfect, hint hint darling if you are reading this

Medhead.com is a great looking new property portal, with over 7000 properties available from many locations. Viewing the site really increases my current interest in going to stay in a gorgeous Spanish property There are so many neat things about the site, from the ultra stylish and professional design to it’s functionality – try it out for yourself, you can instantly translate the page in to one of the 7 different languages available, the search function is intuitive and easy to use.

I find reading the blogs and especially the forums especially motivating, and I have learned an awful lot from the users there

I’m not complaining, I now weigh 13 stone, I have officially lost over 2 and a half stone, I am just 1lb away from weighing 12 stone something. I feel like I am getting somewhere!