Hoo Boy!

I’m sick. VERY sick.

And therefore we’ll have no video today!! There’s NO WAY I’m putting myself on a video looking like THIS!

And yes, it’s TRUE !

This crazyily committed “health, nutrition and workout chick” who always brags how she never gets sick cuz she takes such good care of herself went ahead and GOT SICK.

I got what was coming to me, though.

I maintain that keeping up a healthy lifestyle with good, solid nutrition from whole, natural one-ingredient foods will go a long way to keeping you healthy, even when those nasty little seasonal germs are out preying on you.

So, how’d I wind up sick then, you ask?

If you’ve been keeping up here, you’ll remember that I’ve been working extremely hard these past few weeks, and was shooting some high end and complicated health videos for a client of mine a couple of weeks ago for a few days straight.

If you haven’t been keeping up, here’s the post about it: What About When Life Swallows You Whole?

I was working ridiculously long hours during that shoot … and the only food being provided was chips and chocolate bars for snacks, and lunches were burgers and pizza.

YOIKS!

Why didn’t I pack healthy fare to take with me, I was asked.

Cuz the hours were long ENOUGH that I felt that sleep took priority over packing food for myself.

And I arrogantly let myself think that all my good health up til then would save me through a few days of eating nothing but crap.

I was wrong.

It was definitely my saving grace for keeping my weight under control overall, and for being able to pick up where I left off with my workouts after a few dictated days off.

But I compromised my immune system by feeding it nothing but crap. So it had nothing in it’s arsenal to help keep me healthy and strong and resistant.

Now, this has nothing to do with eating TOO MUCH. Cuz I didn’t really eat a ton of this stuff.

But it’s ALL I ate … for several days straight.

And I paid the price for it.

When that little seasonal germ came calling for my health, it easily found the chink in my armor and BLAMMO !! Before I knew it I was coughing up a lung and making everyone around me nuts (and a little paranoid since they don’t want to catch what I caught).

Our bodies were not designed to live healthy lives purely on overly salted, sugar-laden processed, pseudo-food with tons of preservatives added. They’re designed to live on whole foods you can find in nature. Not that you find in a plastic bag or foil ‘freshness’ wrapper.

And I’m an idiot to think I’d be immune just cuz I ‘usually’ eat a healthy diet. SHAME ON ME!

If I’d stayed the course and stuck with my usual healthy diet I have no doubt that I would have been in a MUCH better place to avoid this year’s flu like I do most years.

Rats. That’s what being arrogant and letting myself slide will get me.

I’ll remember this.

*cough cough* DAMN!

And hey, while we’re on the subject of staying healthy and consuming naughty food, let’s remember that our annual temptation-filled “Season of Eating” is NOW UPON US!!!

You CAN fight back. Even if you’re running around frenzied with no time to hit the gym for a workout amongst all the socializing, celebrating and gift-shopping.

My new “Hot at Home” System will not only get you a ripper workout without ever leaving home (saving you tons of time) but …

I ALSO share all my special ‘eating’ tricks for getting through a season like this without ruining all your hard efforts from the past year.

Find out how to enjoy the holidays AND the yummy food without all the weight gain that usually comes with it…

And save yourself the time that it takes to get to the gym and back for a good workout in the process … !!

Get your arsenal prepared NOW so you can come out on the other side of the holidays in your best shape EVER!!

Here’s where you can get more details about it ==> Get Hot at Home During the Holidays!

Have a fit, fun and fantastic day.
Girlwithnoname

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There! Finally, all illness has left me. Blech, I’m paying for it tho. I hate the detraining effect. I feel week and unconditioned. Rats!! However, I have now stocked up the fridge with maybe my weight in fresh fruit and veggies, and am back at it hard.

Finally seem to be catching up on life. Here’s my last video from the week following my trip. Detraining seems to be the word of the day and I’m suffering from not working out much over the past couple of weeks… but am now back to working out, sick or not, in the hopes that it scares the remainder of this illness out of me. Seriously! Enough is enough!

After this, I kind of disappear for several days, just got buried in work and other stuff including still recovering from this godforsaken illness… but I’m better now, as of today. So next video will be several days later but will get us back into the present!! I’ll post that tomorrow! And then officially we’re all caught up.

cheers!

Oops. Maybe my brain still hasn’t recovered from the trip and being sick… either that or I’m super distracted by the project I’m working on, because this post should have come before the previous post. Anyway, I finally get a workout (of sorts) in. Phew! I was climbing some walls being indoors all the time.

Same old, same old. Still sick. Still trying to do what it takes to get over it. and now suddenly working too.

Sorry for the delay… a few technical difficulties at this end. Anyway, here’s the rundown of what happened after the last NYC video, and the small panic to get home when the airline called and told me my flight was cancelled!!

and that’s it for the Shorty/NYC diatribes. Thanks for watching. I had a ton of fun and am glad I got to share it with you guys. Back to our regular programming with the next post!

So, finally the show is over, and Sergio and I are having fun upstairs in the Press Room schmoozing all the reporters and fellow winners…

One thing that I’d like to make one point perfectly clear regarding this video. A friend has pointed out to me that it *sounds* like I say ‘stupid show’ in reference to the Shorty Awards show. She has a point, it does sound like I said that. However, I remember recording this portion of the video very clearly and it was not my intention to say that nor do I believe the Shorty Awards to be ‘stupid’… nothing could be further from the truth. If I thought the Shorty Awards were stupid I wouldn’t have been there at all. It was merely a slip of the tongue in my usual ‘stream of consciousness’ diatribe. Thanks Shorty for understanding, I hope I’ve redeemed myself with this note!! I had a blast and appreciate everything.

Ok, now that I’m finished grovelling, let’s get on with the fun…

So, here’s more backstage fun once I got my nerve up (aka alcohol level up) to corner MC Hammer and Gary Vaynerchuk for some time on camera with me!

further to THIS video I believe I have an apology to make… SORRY GARY!! I totally mispronounced Gary Vaynerchuk’s name in this video and I think you can actually see him consider correcting me then deciding not to!! You are a true gentleman but I do apologize for the slip. Shame on me. Smack me next time you see me, will you? (but not hard! hee hee)

Jackie & Wine Super-Blogger Gary Vaynerchuk After The Show

After all this, Sergio and I called it a night for the evening and started roaming the streets of Brooklyn having a whistling contest while trying to hail a taxi to take us back to Manhattan (sorry, didn’t think to get that on video, wish I had!! LOL)… I’ve never met anyone that can whistle through their fingers as loudly as I can… until now. Sergio won that contest. Show off!! haw haw!!

and then finally, after all the excitement was done and I was back safe and sound at my hotel, I decided that I was hungry so wandered down to Arriba Arriba again for a bite to eat and some conversation with the guys that run the place!!

and, here’s some press that the Shorty Awards event got, that include blurbs about or by me:

Very awesome and complimentary article with quotes by me and a great pic of me holding my award too!
Wired.com Article

This one also has a great quote by me and my usual headshot. Click on the “Winners” tab to get to that:
CNN.com Article

and finally the article by the Wall Street Journal that I was interviewed for via telephone well before the event. I was actually quite surprised to see how the article turned out… not so much because I was not quoted, but because of how negatively spun the article was about the Shorty Awards in general. I didn’t say anything negative during my interview even though I was prodded to, so I’m assuming that’s why none of my interview was used! Oh well!!! Still fun to be interviewed by such a heavy hitter in the media world!
Wall Street Journal Article

Ok, so off we go… Sergio and I took a taxi after the other ladies staying in my hotel & nearby decided they didn’t want to take the extra time to go pick him up in the limo they’d hired for the evening. Thanks to them for considering having me along at all, very sweet. They were concerned about getting there on time and left at 515pm (dinner was to start at 545pm). So, after having rushed like mad to get to the limo without making the ladies wait too long for me, and then letting it go without me when they said they wouldn’t take the extra time to pick up Sergio (I wasn’t about to leave him standing on some street corner), I relaxed, got myself pulled together properly and hopped in a taxi. We left his office at about 545pm and got there at pretty much the same time as the limo!! Hurray for Sergio for knowing his way around that town better than the ladies’ limo driver did…It only took us about 15 minutes to get there. Anyway, we weren’t even late, it was only just beginning when we got there. Here’s a quick clip. I knew it wasn’t working out visually so its mostly just audio… but still fun stuff:

And then we hop across the street to the Galapagos Art Space where we got settled and I thought it would be a fun idea to get into the back hallway to do a little vlogging… and rats, the visuals suck again, but what can ya do when you vlog on the fly, eh? :-)

and just for fun, here’s a little drinking game for you guys… count how many times in all these videos that I say I think my date Sergio is an awesome guy!! Every time I mention it, you have to take a drink!! You’ll be hammered in no time!! LOL!! Gee, do you guys think I kinda liked him? Serious props go out to my friend Cameron for setting us up… how’d you know we’d get along so well anyway? Anyway, we had a lot of fun, and he IS a super nice guy! Let me know how many times I mention it in the past and next videos cuz I lost count and I’m kinda curious!! haw haw haw!!

Lots more to come!

ITS THE BIG DAY!! The Shorty Awards are later tonight and here’s what I did during the day… well some of what I did in the day, anyway!!

Hey everyone!! Well, here’s the start of the rollercoaster that was my trip to NYC for the Shorty Awards. I had tons of fun, lots of ups along with a few downs, and here’s the first installment. I’ll upload the rest as quickly as possible, but there’s lots to go thru, so please have patience!!! Can’t wait to share it all with all of you!! xo