Healthy lifestyles suck when you are sick :(

For the past 4 days I have been down and out with the flu - which has now magically turned into a cold - and is sure to make the rest of my weekend super fun.  I haven't been able to go to the gym since Tuesday, and although I know that this is supposed to be a long-term lifestyle change I feel like I am cheating - even though I can barely pull myself off the couch to get a glass of water (out of diet coke booo).  So I am working on staying positive and trying to at least stay on track with my eating.  Problem is that even when my body is sick it still craves food (I don't get that kind of flu). 

Unfortunately the food I am craving is all high in fat and calories.  It took everything I had not to stop on the way home from work last night to get some tasty, salty fries.  Which goes back to a theory I have where if you really, really want something and you don't have it, that you should lose that number of calories - but I digress.  I guess what I am really craving is comfort food - which for me isn't chocolate, it is salty carbs.  It isn't like I don't have a ton of healthy food in the house, because I do, but I don't want any of it - which technically means I am not hungry at all right?  Wrong...stomach is grumbling and mind is telling me that it won't hurt to have just a few chips...

This is a dangerous combination - a sedentary lifestyle and cravings for salty, fried foods - and it could jeopardize some of the work I have put in.  I feel a bit like an addict laying here on the couch - minute by minute trying to convince myself that I don't need that food - and it isn't even in the house.  But I know that the variety store is right across the street, and they take debit so I wouldn't even need cash.  It is really a good thing that I am so lazy because right now that store may as well be across town for the motivation I have to get up and get dressed.  A saving grace I suppose...

The Enforcer doesn't consider chips, chocolate or candy 'food' because they offer no nutritional value, simply empty calories.  I buy into this 98% of the time, but I wonder if he ever has cravings for these things.  Then a thought went through my head...if you are a nutritionist or a personal trainer, where would you go to buy junk food that you could be sure that you wouldn't be seen by a client?  Do you send other people out on covert ops for your cravings - or do they simply not crave these things?  And if they were caught, do they have a back story planned?  It has all made me realize that I have too much time on my hands right now - but at least it was a funny distraction for 20 minutes :)