Carolyn's week

My week has been terrible. I made a commitment a couple of weeks ago to start lifting weights and add aerobics about 2 weeks later. Well I started the weights well enough, got VERY SORE, but made it through that, then last week finally took my exercise stuff to work and ran on the treadmill for 20 minutes. That treadmill was too much I guess because the very next day I started to feel a "weakness" in my throat. The day after (last Saturday) I totally lost my voice and had a sore throat. That continued 4 days and I finally went to the doctor after 2 days out sick. Now the thing has blossomed into a miserable cold and I'm not getting a lot of sleep. Needless to say that pretty much killed the exercise program for now. I'm trying to concentrate on getting better, especially my voice - I am supposed to sing at NATS in 2 weeks and I'm afraid I'll not be able to do it. At least now, after a week, I can produce pitch-like sounds, but I'm not trying too much yet. I need to start singing again soon, though, if I am going to get back in shape. I would appreciate any advice on how to get better quickly, and especially how to get back to singing.

So, anyway, my weight is back to 169.0, but I don't know what will happen when I finally get better and start exercising again. My commitment is to start weights again when I feel better and somewhere along the way start some mild walking and work my way up this time. NO running until after NATS!

Second half of the commitment is to eat less sugar (not counting the pie from Marie Callendar's last night... too hard to pass up that "any whole pie" sale!). Hopefully this will help in recovery from the cold as well as weight goals.