For some reason, ever since I got pregnant with my oldest daughter, my immune system has crashed badly.

Growing up, I was that kid who got perfect attendance awards year after year. I had maybe a handful of colds and the flu once or twice, but that was about it. Robust and healthy was a good descriptor of me.

These days I am still fairly robust and quite healthy, but I have been catching everything going around the nursery and getting sicker than most in the process. I don't know why my immune system seems more delicate these days, but I imagine it has less to do with me and more to do with the little munchkins who stick their slobbery fingers in everyone else's mouths and then share it with me. While nobody would look at me and say I look sickly (quite the opposite) the fact remains that I have been in a near-constant state of 'not quite 100%' for months, and just caught another nasty headcold to compound the issue.

We were all sick, but of course it hit me the hardest. I am glad the kids seemed to be stuffy but otherwise happy, I'd rather suffer than them, but it is still obnoxious to be icky all the time. I definitely took my previous good health for granted, and am not making that mistake again. I am STILL remarkably healthy and free of any serious conditions, and I am thankful for that. I grumble about my sniffling and fatigue, but I know full well how good I have it. I do hope I am done with my seasonal illness rotation, but I'll take a dozen cold over something permanently wrong any day of the week!

How does this all relate to weightloss? Quite simply, while I do not think my weight has any correlation to my susceptability to cold and flu viruses, it has a huge impact on my probability of developing many of the top morbidity-causing diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, etc etc. Improving my health may or may not help me ward off the sniffles, but it isn't the sniffles that will rob my children of their mother! So despite feeling blah about exercise and eating well this week, it is still worth it for me to persist on with it, because this cold/flu/general malaise will pass, but good choices now will help me over the course of my lifetime.

We'll see what the scale does this week - I am hopeful for a loss but know I am retaining water. Depending on how I feel tomorrow morning I may opt for sleep over cycling, but my food will still be on plan. This week was good, all illness aside, and I am hopeful to make it below 200 by the New Year.

So what good choices did you make this past week? Do you modify your routine when you are sick or keep the same daily patterns you otherwise have?