Health Kick in the Ass

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 18, 2007

Working to become more healthy is making me sick. At least that’s my theory of the week for why I’ve caught another cold.

I caught a doozy of a cold over Christmas weekend and spent most of it feeling like crap. That’s the first time my sinuses have really acted up since moving to Vancouver and gotten me really sick.

It took me more than a week to completely recover from that, and I’d hoped that it would be a long time before it hit me again. No such luck apparently. About a month later and here I am with a cold again.

This time wasn’t as bad, though, and I’m already on the downhill side of it into feeling better. Perhaps it was the virus affecting my brain, but this time around I decided that I was sick again because I’d been working on getting healthier again.

It doesn’t sound exactly like a rational thought, but in a perverse way it all works out.

Like every other person trying to get fit and healthy, I’ve been doing a lot of reading on the subject. One of the little nuggets I picked up this time around is that it’s not only good to drink lots of water to stay hydrated, but it also helps flush the toxins out of your body that were being stored in the fat and are now being released.

So even though I’m eating healthier and working out more, I’m actually creating prime toxic conditions in my body for all sorts of viruses and sickness. That’s the thanks I get from my body for trying to treat it better.

I’m assuming that eventually that all shifts back in my favour. Of course, I’ve got toxins that have been stored in there a good long while, so I have to be in for the long haul in this little war.

You start burning away some fat, and your body becomes a toxic dump slowing you down and making you sick.It’s amazing how your own body seems to work against you in things like this. You try to eat healthy and it insists you need chips and soda. You try to work out more, and your brain tries to convince you that it’s not necessary.

Some days I’m pretty sure my body wants to stay the way it is. Perhaps it’s just as averse to change as I am. It’s clinging to the fat, clinging to the junk food, clinging to what it knows and is comfortable with because it doesn’t know any better.

What we really need instead of crazy diet pills and surgical procedures to help us lose weight and be healthier is for doctors and researchers to find a way to fool our bodies into liking the change. There needs to be a magic pill that makes your body say “Yay apples!” instead of “Man, this is NOT what I said I wanted.”

Until then I’m stuck drinking a ton of water to flush out toxins and hoping that I can fool my own body with all the food that’s good for it.

And as a side note, I’ll keep going to the gym despite it being a hotbed of all sorts of germs and viruses. Between the toxins and the sweaty, sneezy gym goers, this whole health kick thing could be quite hazardous for me.

- Sarah L. Polson

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