I have resolved to start working out on a regular basis. Actually, I made this resolve over a work ago, and worked out six days last week, then two days this week, and then I got sick. I tried to exercise anyway, which turned out to be a bad idea as all of the lymph nodes in my head responded by swelling 100x their normal size. Did you know you have lymph nodes in (over?) the roof of your mouth? Neither did I, until they swelled up so much breathing became painful. But I digress.

My workout plan was to start using Slim in 6 six days a week. Week 1, check! Week 2, yeah, not so much. So now I am trying to decide if I should count last week as one of the “6″ weeks of SI6, or if I should just start all over again. I’ll probably start over again, because I like to do things “right” (and probably have OCD, because I think everything has a “right” way). What’s my hurry to get the 6 weeks over with? I plan to move from Slim in 6 to Jillian Michael’s 30 Day Shred. I had planned to actually alternate between the two, but then realized that 30DS level way feels waaay more intense than S16 level 1, and even though I could probably start level 1 of 30DS with level 2 of slim in 6 and call it good, trying to remember to move up another level in one and not the other sounds like more brain work than I want to do. And a small part of me wants to do them separately as a kind of science experiment, with myself as the lab rat.* I want to be able to judge which is more effective, how much weight I lose on each, and possibly see if Beach Body would want my before/after shots for their SI6 promo (they wouldn’t but a girl can dream). The logical part of my brain is telling me to figure out a way to alternate the programs, to varry my workout so I don’t stress the same muscles six days a week, yadda yadda yadda… But that was the part of my brain that was telling me not to try to increase my workout when I obviously was sick, and you can see how much i listen to that part of my brain.

Anyway, when the swelling in my throat and head go down, I’m returning to S16. I’m gonna lose these 30lbs I gained in the past two years, when my thyroid function decided to go kerplunk, and I’m going to lose it soon. ish. Soon-ish. Watch out, Debbie Seibers, I’ll be back.

*cherry bomb is morally opposed to animal testing, unless it is human testing of awesome things like make-up, the newest flavor of diet coke, and exercise dvds.