I was due to do my first 5k (W9D1) on Monday but was struck with a really bad migraine on Sunday so there was just no chance. I had hoped I might get out today but I still don’t feel up to it – I know from experience then if I try push through a migraine it only makes it ten times worse and I am far better off just giving in to it and taking it easy for a few days.

The problem is I am going away for a week next Monday, so now won’t be able to complete the whole thing before I set off as I had planned to.

Very annoying, but hey ho that’s life.

I went to bed on Wednesday night with a really bad one. Thursday was my second run day – when I got up I took a migraine tablet right away and come 7pm as I was feeling OK I decided to go for it, I did alright while I was out there but as soon as I got home – no surprises to learn I totally crashed out with it. Exercise is not good for a migraine.

I was still bad with it on Friday and Saturday came (my next run day) and again I was feeling OK, not amazing but I probably could have gone out again – but I decided I was better off leaving it until today, giving myself that extra day to recover (it was also boiling hot yesterday which I thought really wouldn’t help!).

I have woke up today in serious ‘woman pain’ as my monthly visitor has decided to turn up. I get terrible pains on the first day that I come on and usually spend the day in bed feeling sorry for myself and again it’s boiling outside so I really don’t know what to do. It’s another 4 hours before I would normally go out so I guess I will just wait and see how I feel then!

Come on body, give me a break!

Unfortunately last week I was unable to work out so much because I had a migraine again, these are becoming rather worrisome now as it seems like I do get them every few weeks and I am sure that can’t be normal. I hate going to the doctors and usually avoid it like the plague, but I think it’s time to admit defeat here and go see them about it.

Fingers crossed they will offer a simple solution because I really don’t want to have to start taking medication or anything that is going to mess with my hormones.

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 really should go to the doctors about them. I went before when I first started getting them and was told they were nothing to worry about – I usually get them just before my time of the month and they are just related to hormones. That was several years ago now though and I do seem to get them more frequently now – at least one every other month – so it wouldn’t hurt to get checked out again

Last week I was out of action with a migraine, it was a pretty miserable one too and lasted about 5 days. I spent the whole time pretty much in bed listening to the TV or music – I was bored to tears and desperately missed working out.

This week I have a flu bug that most of my family has had. Fever, snot, sore throat, cough…the lot.

I have only managed to work out twice for 30 minutes at a time in the last few weeks! I have been behaving with my eating though so have not gained any weight.

I can’t wait to get well again so I can get some more weight off me. I currently weigh 10 stone exactly, I am literally ounces away from being at my next goal of being 9 stone something – a goal that seemed impossible a few years ago

With 15 out of the 20 workouts complete and only a few days to go I got a migraine and had to miss a few days, when I finally went to play it again a few nights ago I was informed that I now did not have enough time left to complete the 30 day challenge in 30 days.

Darnit!!

It says that I can still complete it but it won’t count.

The thing now is that I should just restart it, right? But given that I have lost no weight in the time I have been doing it, infact I have gained a few pounds — I really don’t have the desire or motivation to start it again.

*sigh*

Blasted migraine.

The not being able to see, the pain, the nauseousness, the dizziness etc.

But one of the worst things is that it pretty much means I won’t be doing any exercise for quite some time because even after getting better I don’t want to risk a relapse – so a migraine = at least a week off from working out

Hopefully this one will pass quickly.

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.

Hopefully I will find it pretty easy to get back into the swing of things, I am ready to get that scale on the move again…I am itching to get to my next mini goal