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"Sorry for the lapse in my writing. I&amp;#039;ve been down and out with a horrific stomach flu. It hit me like a ton of bricks! I&amp;#039;ll spare you the gory details but, suffice it to say that anything that went in eventually came back out... for several days on end. (Yes, I know you needed to know that. ;) I spent 4 straight days in a feverish haze, moving between the couch, the bathroom and my bed. I was so sick that I could barely even watch television or read. Even though I was sleeping most of the time, I was still able to think about the upside of having the flu: Maybe I&amp;#039;ll lose some weight from it. I know it sounds terrible but c&amp;#039;mon. Who hasn&amp;#039;t thought that? In no way do I support getting sick to lose weight, obviously. But if you HAVE to get sick, why not lose some weight at the same time? I see no problem with that. So I was envisioning how svelte I&amp;#039;d be when I was feeling better. How I&amp;#039;d go back to work and people would tell me how great I looked. So this morning I woke up and finally felt much better. To celebrate my return to health, I hopped right on the scale....only to discover that I had lost 2 pounds. 2 pounds? Yes, a measly 2 pounds. Not eating for 4 days resulted in only 2 pounds of weight loss. I just can&amp;#039;t believe it. Oh well, I shouldn&amp;#039;t complain. Two pounds is two pounds, I guess. I just wish it was more. It would&amp;#039;ve been like the silver lining in this cloud of germs. Meanwhile, dear reader: Stay healthy and wash your hands. Apparently this stomach flu is making its away around NYC so consider yourself forewarned! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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