Getting sick while on a diet

[lenady]

How do you guys deal with getting a cold while your in the middle of a diet? Normally I end up off the diet and not doing anything. I don't think that would be the wisest decision though really, since what I'm focusing on with my diet is replacing some foods (cookies, chips, meatball mozerella subs) with healthier alternatives and more fruits and veggies. It seems as though I'd do better while on the diet than if I went back to my previous eating situation. I'm probably getting more vitamins and more whole grains and stuff now.

And is it better to remain active (although to a lesser degree) or should I just skip the exercise for now and chill out more?

How do you guys deal with being sick?  

[Madame de Sousa]

I try eating better while I have a cold. I think that some fuits and veggies would probably help me more since they have so many vitiams and minerals.

As for exericesing I kinda split it in half instead of 30 mins only do 15.

I've had a cold for the last 3 weeks and its been a big pain.  

[lenady]

Ouch. That sucks. Hope you start feeling better soon.

Have you thought about trying Zycam? That stuff works wonders with a cold. They're not kidding when they say it shorten the duration of it. Unfortunately I left mine at my parents' house last weekend so I'm stuck dealing with it normally crying  

[Madame de Sousa]

hmm nope I have never heard of it but I am almost done with my cold.  

[Keren]

Well, I do know that zinc is good for when you have a cold, Vitamin C too! So maybe have a little orange juice in the mornings or something.  

[lenady]

I didn't know that about Zinc. But I did manage to eat an orange with lunch today biggrin  

[dont-forget]

Air borne works really well too

Last time i got sick i just stuck to strechting for the first week instead of intense excercises' than as i got better i started adding on and building up again ( its wasn't easy but i got better faster, well fast as you can with a virus)

For foods I'm a healthy eater so i just stuck to foods that are easyer on the stomach (the brat diet, Banana's Rice Apple sauce And Toast) but that was only if my stomach was really unable to handle food, i also eat alot of soup.

Hope you get better soon!  

[Divash]

1. Maintain your new healthy eating patterns. Those healthy foods are filled with vitamins that will help you fight off the cold.

2. Do not try to work out. A cold is your body's way of telling you to take a couple of days off. Rest.

3. Keep drinking lots of liquids. Water, broth, maybe some fruit juice. (Normally I say avoid fruit juice, because you get just as many vitamins from eating fruit, plus the fiber which is great for you and which juice doesn't have. Fruit juice is mostly sugar-water, with a little bit of vitamin thrown in. But when you're sick, any excuse for liquids is a good one.) Drink no more than two glasses of milk per day when you're sick, though, because milk products can cause your mucus membranes to overproduce mucus (snot), and you're not really needing any more of that right now.

4. Sleep as much as possible. Your body needs all its energy for fighting the disease.

5. If you can get a cat to sleep on you, it will help.  

[CherryCupCakes]

oranges, usally help sweatdrop 3nodding