O! the horrible coughing-to-the-point-of-gagging.At least I no longer have a fever, but I have post-febrile patheticness and have done little for the past two day but lie in bed. And cough.
Yesterday's orgy of beef and tomatoes didn't happen, and my total intake amounted to 43 calories of Raspberry Zinger tea with honey.
While I was in the UK I bought a vast array of lollies from the awesome A Quarter Of, ostensibly for the licorice care package I'm putting together for a brother-in-law; though I certainly bought a beautiful array of licorice and aniseed treats, half or more of my purchases were for me - pips (tiny little lollies with fantastically intense flavours), Irn Bru-flavoured humbugs, lime hard-boiled lollies, rhubarb and custard lollies, pineapple chunks, raspberry millions, mini Parma violets, Chelsea Whoppers, monkey bars, Krakatoa foaming fizz... and I didn't even know what those last half dozen are! I do, clearly, have impulse control issues, which is how my expedition to buy a pair of shoes netted me two pairs, plus two pairs of ankle boots and a glorious (but unneeded) red leather suitcase. But I digress.
I've been very disciplined since my delivery arrived some three weeks ago, but today I managed to choke down two Cadbury fudge bars (25g and 115 calories each) and two Nestle Caramac bars (30g and 173 calories per bar - they're basically caramel-flavoured white chocolate). They were quite soothing to my irritated throat but sat less well in my still nauseated gut, so I may stick to tea and honey for now. I also had four pips, in banana, cola, strawberry and cream. I can't find any nutrition information on them, but they're tiny boiled lollies, weighing about 2g each so 30 calories.
I just can't do anything physical, thanks to quite unpleasant and persistent shortness of breath with essentially no exertion. So somewhat less the rest of the Kick Start program and rather more of the This Bug is Kicking My Arse... - Alex
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