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Terrible Cold Ruining My W30 :(


kelsola

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This is my second W30, I am currently on day 17.  Things were going great, I am trying really hard to do everything right this time around.  I even do crossfit now and was so excited to have my energy burst and strength benefit from all this great food, but my husband passed on a vicious cold to me.  I haven't been to the gym in a week and I CANNOT shake it no matter what I do.  I never get sick!  I am drinking bone broth every day, even before I got sick.  Now I am drinking lemon water (lots of it), trying to rest and this thing is relentless.  I had to work today and was so desperate I packed a couple cough candies just in case I couldn't take it anymore (which would have ruined my w30)...I didn't have to use them, but I need help with some advice!  What are some w30 cold remedies I am not doing?  I want to be healthy so I can have all of the w30 benefits!  I'm sad :( It's been almost 1 week of this...I am so desperate to work out I thought about going anyway today even though my head feels like it's doubled in size...cuz I'm crazy...

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I completely sympathise kelsola as I'm suffering with the same thing. I've had a cold and blocked sinuses since day 3 of my whole 30 and now I'm on day 21! I thought it would disappear extra fast because I am taking in all these additional nutrients but it just won't go away and I feel like crap. If I am getting any tiger blood it us being completely overwhelmed by the intense tiredness and achey-ness I'm feeling all the time from this cold. And I'm never usually ill either :-(

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I make chicken soup with plenty of garlic, almost exactly to the recipe posted above.

 

I also crave very salty mashed potatoes when I'm sick. Not sure why that is, but I make them whipped with a hand mixer just like my mom does, sans dairy.

 

I also drink orange juice, even though it's not preferred on a Whole30. That's probably mostly comfort and a bit of the placebo effect, but if my worst offense on a Whole30 is drinking orange juice when I have a cold, I'm pretty sure I'm doing okay.

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