Similar Dragons
Hi guys! Happy Monday- hope your day is going well 😀 Thank you for your amazing Sunday comments. I loved reading them on the way back to Valdizzy 😀
As you guys know, the pilot and I both have a horrendous terrible cold/virus/something or other. Some people lose their appetites when they’re sick… it takes a lot for us to lose our appetites 🙂
We made a stop for hot bar on the way home from Atlanta.
I loaded my container up
With
-wheatberry salad
-sesame quinoa
-dal and spinach curry
-vegan mac n’ cheese (with a nutritional yeast sauce!)
-kale + carrots
with Indian spiced soup on the side 🙂
The drive back to V-town was easy –I was a good sport and drove half the way!- and then we stopped to pick up this little monkey.
And this little monkey:
I missed them so much!
You’ll never believe what we braved to fight this cold/virus/whatever….
We each an ENTIRE thing (head?) of roasted garlic.
When I tweeted out the call for get-well solutions, I got a lot of advice to eat garlic. It’s very antibacterial and a great source of antioxidants, so we decided to give it a whirl.
I LOVE garlic, but this was a little hardcore. We were similar dragons last night 😀
Other things we’re been doing:
LOTS of Emergen-C
(If you use less water, it tastes better- so we always use little espresso cups)
Sleeeeeeeeeep + Fluids
Fiery Goji Smoothies for B-fast
-1.5 C almond milk
-1 banana
-1 scoop Vanilla Sun Warrior
-1 T goji berries, soaked overnight in water (for antioxidants)
-1/8-1/4 t cayenne pepper (great cold remedy – helps congestion and sore throats)
Blend up in the Vita-Mixalicious and slurp happily with a glass straw 🙂
I’m off to pack the pilot some lonchi –he’s still going in to work, poor guy- and am going to start cleaning the vacation tornado 😀
See ya this afternoon with some Zumba stuff and a final re-cap of this past weekend’s fitness conference.
Have a great day!
xoxo,
Gina
Something to talk about: What do you do when you’re feeling under the weather?? Anyone else fighting the sickies right now?
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sleep, sleep, sleep!!
I totally do the garlic thing! Also, a netti pot has helped me in the past. I’ll feel it coming on and use a makeshift netti pot and the next day it’s all good 🙂
Good old sleep and rest! Pho or spicy Indian food also make me feel better when I have a stuffy nose.
Hope you feel better!
This week must have been HARD on your body … rest 🙂
I have a pretty nasty cold myself. And I don’t lose my appetite when I get sick – in fact, I get hungrier when I’m sick. No idea why. I drink hot lemonade with honey to help with the cough that came with the cold, and it really helps! All you need to do is juice half a lemon into a mug, then fill the mug halfway with water. Pop the lemon/water mix in the microwave for 20-30 seconds, add honey to taste, and drink.
We use garlic, but also honey and lime/lemons. More of the fresh lemon/lime juice than honey, but it works wonders. Feel better soon.
Love hot & sour soup. Get the Main Squeeze to make ya a wellness cocktail.
EXCELLENT idea! spence will make me some kind of elixir
Whenever I am sick I drink fire water. Put honey or maple syrup (about 1 teaspoon) on the bottom of a large mug and add ginger (I press it through a garlic press to juice it), cayenne pepper,the juice of half a lemon, and fill with hot water and stir with an ice-tea spoon. It tastes good and always makes me feel better. I also find vitamin D, probiotics, and elderberry syrup to be helpful. Hope you both feel better soon!
that sounds lovely, thank you!
omg you both ate an entire garlic clove? That IS hardcore! LOL Did you eat it on anything?
I hope you get to feeling better soon!
no we ate it plain with a little sea salt and olive oil
I also have something right now! Lots and lots of flem, lovely, huh?
My grandfather lived to be 106 and every morning he took a shot of olive oil and ate one clove of garlic. I never remember him EVER having a cold or anything. Neither does my dad.
Hope you and your pilot feel better!
Awww, feel better guys! The little one and I just got over a nasty summer cold. Lots of sleep, OJ, green tea, and water. And some tylenol thrown in for good measure when I got achy. She braved it with fluids and one dose of Motrin.
sleep and lots of water! i also use emergen-c, but just try to not eat a lot of sugary stuff and drink herbal tea too. hope you feel better! i’ve been having some sort of cold/sore throat thing too. thank for reminding me about the garlic! i always mash mine onto a piece of bread or something bc i’m not that hardcore yet:)
I just caught a cold (or something) from my mom who was up at summer camp and caught whatever the kiddies were passing around (gosh I hope this isn’t strep). I can’t really handle a lot of garlic so it’s GINGER and MINT tea all day right now. I made a crazy herbal smoothie with tons of ginger and mint and chili powder and basil and lavender and some fruit and spinach to try to knock this outta me – worked for a bit but eventually the post-nasal drip returned. I also got the boyfriend sick so last night we curled up on my couch with a vat of ginger tea and Netflix … that’s my favorite cure haha. Except I’m still sick … beh. Okay, I’m off to infuse my blood stream with more ginger!
Feel better!!
hope you feel better soon, too!
Wow-I don’t know if I could eat a whole head of garlic!
I try to sleep as much as possible, take hot baths/hot showers and drink lots of hot water w/lemon.
I hope you feel better soon!
Wow, a whole head of garlic?! That’s hardcore! Do you think it helped at all? Hope you guys start feeling a lot better soon!! 🙂
When I’m sick I like to curl up in bed with magazines, catch up on the DVR and drink tea…buuut I have 2 kids under the age of 4 so that never happens anymore, ha 🙂 I definitely do the Emergen-C thing, green smoothies and sometimes I just gotta break out the tylenol cold.
I don’t really have any tricks to feel better except SLEEP! 🙂
I was just talking the other day about when people get sick, they don’t eat. I had food poisoning last Monday night and would you believe I was eating like normal on Tuesday. Hunger trumps nausea apparently!
Feel better soon!
see, eating garlic like that is a dream for me…i LOVE the stuff! thank goodness the hubby loves it even more than i do 😉
I hope you guys get to feeling better! I have eaten garlic when sick, but never a whole clove! You guys are hardcore.
ps. I have those same espresso cups!
I’m huge in green monsters, emergen-c, and sleep!
woahhhh roasted garlic!! brave! haha. i actually love roasted garlic! and i 100% agree. i literally use a shot glass to take my emergen-c! it’s soooo much better with little water. your hot bar looked great as usual. now go take a nap 🙂
I totally do the Emergen-C packets!! When I was in college(music major), all the teachers would recommend and swear by Emergen-C and drinking lots of tea, especially for us singers to get our voices back in gear. Plus vocal rest. 😀 Feel better!
Aww, hope you guys feel better soon! I usually take echinacea and drink lots of fluids when I am sick.
OMG that picture of Bella! Sweet, sassy molassey!
For a cold, try dis: slices of ginger, squeeze of lemon juice, a squirt or two of Sriracha hot sauce, and very hot water. Courtesy of Martha Stewart’s everyday living blog.
yes bell is quite the sassafras 🙂
i’ll try that- i think i have everything on hand!
You think roasted garlic is bad? When we were kids my mom would literally mix up a tablespoon of ghee with some salt, turmeric and mashed up cooked garlic as ointment for our throats. Then she would proceed to force-feed this to us until our throats were coated fully. Then the final kicker – no water for an hour after this. It kills all the bacteria and is really good for your immune system, but man you seriously can’t go out of the house all day because you smell like crap.
hahah! whoa, it sounds like it would work though
Feel better! I hate feeling sick, but I rarely get a cold so when I do it’s a nice chance to relax for a day and have an excuse to do nothing 😉
Good morning! My weapon of choice to fight a cold is lots and lots of sleep. I seriously try to go to bed at like 9pm or earlier and sleep until 7am or 7:30am before I absolutely have to get up and go to work. I have found that eating healthy foods, having my daily green monster and going to the gym have helped me fight off colds even better or when I do get sick, it hasn’t been nearly as terrible as before. I also don’t normally workout when I am sick, even if it is a head cold only. Maybe I will do some yoga, but I try to let my body recup for a few days before putting strain on it.
Hope you guys start feeling better soon!
That’s so crazy that you guys ate so much garlic!
When I’m not feeling well I drink a lot of water and hot tea!
I use Emergen-C when I’m sick, too, and I totally agree that it tastes much, much better with less water.
You should have spread the roasted garlic on some bread. It is really good that way! Tastes like butter!! Amanda, above, is right, though. If you’re still feeling under the weather make sure you get lots of fluids. Hope you feel better soon!!
Hope you’re feeling better! Do you use dried goji berries in that smoothie? Or whole ones?
Whoa, an entire head of garlic – that is hard core! I find sleeping a lot and tons of rest is the best way to make a quick recovery.
I love roasted garlic. The whole thing is a bulb. This really makes me want to buy a bulb of elephant garlic. That stuff is AMAZING! The cloves are so big that you can spread them on bread or crackers (or anything). I do not get sick very often, but when I do, it is all about tea and making sure that I keep my nutrition up.
BULB! that’s right 🙂 hahah thank you
Sorry to hear you’re sick! When I’m sick, I find that sleeping a LOT really helps– I spend at least half the day in bed, and I’m almost always on my way to recovery by the next day!
Also, hot herbal tea with lemon and honey makes me feel better, along with lots of Emergen-C! (I like using less water with that, too!)
i am not sick but my baby woke up with a runny nose! been reading your blog for a long time and love the inspiration!
Love that you made a stop to Whole Foods on the road! Those veggies look yummy. And holy cow, I can’t believe you both ate that garlic. I always knew you were hardcore, but WHOA! When I’m sick, I also gulp down as much Emergen-C as possible and sleeeep. I usually get sick in the first place when I’m not getting enough zzz’s!
I’ve been to that WF! 🙂 (I live in ATL). I didn’t know they had vegan mac and cheese… I wonder if it’s good?
Whenever I’m not feeling well, my mom gives me tea with honey or raspberry jam. With a lemon slice on top. + I drink lots of water and take lots of naps. I hope you feel better soon! <3
So sorry you and the Pilot still are not feeling well!
For me, I try to take it easy when feeling that bad… lots of rest on the couch with some good movies, hot tea and vitamin C!
Hope you feel better quickly!
Gina, My hubby and I are still battling this monster cold too and he went to work today, though I think now he’s sorry he did. I’m drinking acai green tea right now, had a green smoothie this morning. We get hot and sour soup from our local chinese place, and also eat chicken soup with lots of added hot sauce. Also I just read last night that THROAT COAT tea is good because it has slippery elm and licorice root in it, & we tried it and it worked! It stopped the cough that the cough syrup didn’t !!! HTH’s ! Feel better soon!
Becky
i used to drink that tea back in my singing days and totally forgot about it! i’ll go pick some up 🙂
I would love to hear more about your singing days!! I had no idea!
all-state choir 2003! what what! hahah
Sorry you are not feeling well! Lots of hot tea and lemon! My Nana also would always splash a bit of some whiskey in there to- hehe, well, if nana says so! Where did the pilot find your carrot cake lara bar at? I have been searching…I live in Atlanta and have been to 2 Whole Foods…did you get it at the one in Sandy Springs (on Roswell Rd.) That is the only one I have not looked yet. Thanks!
Wow, you are H-core for eating that entire head of garlic!! I hope you’re feeling better soon – get lots of sleep if you can, that always seems to help for me.
You are so brave to eat that whole roasted garlic. Although roasted garlic is really delicious, I prefer to have it in more moderate portions! Keep us updated on if it helps fight the cold! (And feel better soon!)
If you are congested, I recommend using a nasal rinse or neti pot. They seem to help me recover faster and provide some immediate relief. Hope you and the pilot feel better.
An entire head of garlic?? You are hardcore. I hope you guys feel better.
i hope you get feeling better! must have been your weekend adventures that got ya all down! :-/ hope the garlic helps.
Hot tea, tea, tea and neti pot. Hope you guys feel better soonly!
Tea, tea and then for a change, tea. Oh and soup. When ever there is a cooler day during the summer I make and freeze soup. It is my sickie comfort food.
Don’t forget your Vitamin D and Oregano Oil!!! I hear garlic is good too so that’s good that you’re braving it! Never tried Emergen-C… do you like it?
YES
I haven’t been sick in over 2 years (knock on wood!)! I think my immune system has gained super powers or something. 😛
I hope you feel better soon!