Getting sick when you're trying to get healthy?

If you have allergies at all this spring has been terrible and wreaking havoc on my immune system. That could be doing it.

The seasons are so messed up this year (depending on where you live) but it's made a lot of people sick. Also, like a previous poster said, it could be more exposure if you're in classes with lots of people or at the gym with unclean equipment!

I'm fighting a nasty, nasty cough/cold/death and it's definitely no fun!

Yeah, there have been some nasty bugs going around this season. I know of several people who have been ill lately.

Maybe do 5 days a week of intense work outs then one day of a lighter one like walking. Your body may be too worn down to fight off the infections. I did this when I started and it took about 4 months before it happened. Also, keep in mind your body is clearing out all of that crap you have been storing up. Keep up on the water and maybe scale back just a little and see if that helps.

Even if you are eating the right foods, are you eating enough? People who cut their calories too much seem to be more prone to illness from my experience. My sister was super sick, got better, started dieting again and was probably under eating a little bit, and then got sick again. So if you were sick once, you probably ought to go back to eating a little more for a while because your body is needing more than normal to get back in good shape.

I wouldn't think it has anything to do with your diet. Secondary infections are extremely commom (sick once- then reinfected). It happens all the time.

I was thinking the same thing as abetter40 as I was reading thru the posts. With my health issues, I always go thru a detox period when I have slumped in my eating habits and go back to eating lots of fruits and veggies again. For me, it can last for up to 3 weeks of feeling crummy, but if I hang in there I feel better. My NMD. says taking antibiotics only postpones the clean out and sometimes makes it worse. Hang in there. It will get better, then you will feel great!

I have been sick for about a week or so and I am extremely frustrated! I just started my journey a month ago, was doing really well, going to the gym 3 days a week and doing the Wii on off days, then I got sick and I haven't worked out in week. :grumble: I have asthma. Two years ago I was hospitalized 3 times for pneumonia, so I do not mess around with it at all. I stopped working out and have done nothing, my hubby is taking care of the house even. I am currently taking Echinacea, Vitamin C, and a Multi-Vitamin. Slowly I am on the mend and I hope to be at the gym on Monday. I always wipe off the equipment at the gym but who knows if everyone else does. So from now on I am going to wipe off before I get on too, hopefully this will cut down on the getting sick part. Good luck to you!!

When you start to get healthy and you are eating better, especially fruits and vegetables, you body starts to go through a detoxification process. During this process your body is releasing a bunch of toxins, which causes your immune system to drop because it has turned its focus and attention to ridding the body of the toxins. Once this process is mostly complete, the immune system will come back up, only now it will be in a nearly toxic-free state and will be able to build itself stronger with the good nutrition you are feeding it.

Fruits and Vegetables are critical to our health and maintaining our health. They are so full of nutrients such as minerals and NATURAL vitamins that you just can't get when consuming man-made vitamins. If you take the money you are spending on vitamins (not natural whole-food-based supplements) and put it towards extra produce, you will be doing yourself a great deal of justice. Vitamins (man made in a lab) are expensive. For one, they are NOT 100% bioavailable, which means that the body doesn't use all of it up, and therefore is excreted in your urine, which is one reason why your urine is a bright yellow color versus the normal pale yellow color. Secondly, the body doesn't recognize man-made vitamins and so the creators of vitamins have to add Vitamin D to it or put it through an Oligofructose process so that the body will "think" it is a nutrient from food and accept it into its system. We need to stop being such a vitamin-dependent country and start getting our real nutrients from real whole foods.

If you know you can't get enough fruits and vegetables in your diet or into your children's diet, there is a product called Juice Plus, which is whole-food nutrition that is 100% bioavailable because it comes straight from the vine. I will place the link on here for you to go look at the research and how it has benefitted so many people around the world. Another thing you are going to want to look at is a documentary called "The Beautiful Truth". It's a documentary about the Gerson Therapy discovered by Dr. Gerson in the early 1920's-1930's. You just may change the way you feel about eating after you watch it. It really opened my eyes to a lot of things, and I am a 20-year practicing health and fitness professional with a background in human performance and nutrition. I too was shocked when I watched it.

You will need to copy and past these into your browser's address bar, but here is the website for Juice Plus and "The Beautiful Truth" documentary:

Juice Plus: www.FitnessWithJuicePlus.com

"The Beautiful Truth": http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/beautiful-truth/

So, with that, I hope that this information was helpful to all of you. Good luck in your journey to optimal health!! )

Daphney Henderson
Daphney@TrinityHFConcepts.com
www.FitnessWithJuicePlus.com
www.YourGardenOfEden.TowerGarden.com

In RE to my immune system, I had the same question some time ago...I was eating a lot better...getting all of my vitamins from my food...lots of produce, etc. Thought my immune system should have been much improved. After being sick a few times I told my Dr. about my concerns and had some blood work done...turns out I was extremely Vitamin D deficient. I've been on 5,000 IU of Viatmin D ever since in addition to my nutritious diet and haven't been sick since...meanwhile everyone around me has been dropping like flies all winter.

You may want to see if you are Vitamin D deficient...it's hard to make up for that particular deficiency with diet alone and can definitely lead to a compromised immune system. I also agree with the other poster who said to try and get as much nutrition as possible from your food. I've completely gotten rid of my multi-vitamin at this point and get everything (except my Vitamin D) from food...I think it makes a difference.