Day 26 - Indulgence #1

First let me say that those creeps may be the end of me. I thought other things were hard until I tried those. I can barely walk. But this means they're doing something and I love that!

OK, like Sara, I indulged very shortly after receiving Patrick's email on Friday. I didn't think I'd do it so quickly and I really though I'd agonize over the choices. But in the end it was easy. Simon had just arrived back from 8 days away and we sat down and had a glass of wine (1.5 actually) and got caught up. It was great. It took me FOREVER to drink that much wine... I had the first glass over the course of an hour long chat and the half glass with my PCP supper. After supper I had two very small peices of 5-year-old cheddar, which I used to eat in copious amounts before PCP. Good cheese is one of my favorite things to eat so this just made more sense to me than a sweet. I haven't had so much as a sprinkle of cheese since PCP started and I missed it. But, HELLO THE SALT! Was cheese always this salty? Yikes! My palate has changed for sure. As for the wine, it was delicious. I had pangs of guilt while I was drinking it and it actually felt like too much.

Then something really weird happened and I have no idea if it was related to my indulgence or not. At 2am I woke up with out-of-control abdominal pain. The pain was up in my stomach, and it felt like a food-poisoning, imminent vomiting kind of pain. I had sweats, was freezing, boiling... this lasted for maybe 10 or 15 minutes, then passed.... and these cycles continued for 2 hours. I was convinced I was getting some kind of stomach flu or really did have food poisoning. I didn't get sick though and by about 4:30 felt normal again and slept until 9:30. The next day I proceeded as usual with  normal amounts of PCP food and a hard PCP workout. NO IDEA. Was this related to my small indulgence? I am intrigued.

Yesterday Simon did my workout with me. When I was watching him skip I realized what I must have been like on the first day. I have come a long way.