Exercise Makes you Sick

Yes, contrary to what all those healthy people want you to believe, exercise makes you sick.

Those of you who know me know that I have been wrestling with the last hunk of baby weight that stubbornly lingers, therefore I decided that midwinter break would be the week that I got my lazy bum on an exercise routine. If I could only keep it going for one week I could prove to myself that it was feasible and it would continue. Also, in one week I'd shrink back to a size 6 and magically be able to fit into about 90% of the clothes in my friggin' closet.

But no.

You know, I held up my end of the bargain. It looked like this:
Wednesday = ran 3.5 miles in the park pushing my 20 lb babe in the jog stroller, Thursday = spin class, Friday = an hour on the elliptical machine, Saturday = a 45 minute run on the treadmill doing intervals and hills.

Sounds good, right? I was kickin' ass and takin' names in the exercise world. I had visions of myself rockin' a cute little JCrew bikini in a skinny minute (pun intended). But noooooooo. My next week was not full of more exercise, but....

Monday night = Do I have a fever? Why do I have chills? Fall asleep on couch at 9pm. Cough. Tuesday night = I have a fever...cough cough. Snot. Fall asleep on couch again. Wednesday morning = Huh? 102 fever. Adam walks me to doctor. Get drugs. Fever gets to 103. Thursday = Fever breaks. Comes back at night to 101.Friday = Feeling better, but guess who's got the cough cough now? Adam and Alexandra!

The moral of the story is: Exercise is bad for you. Stay slovenly. Bake cookies and watch movies instead!