(cough) It's flu season! What do we do?
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So it's the winter time. Everybody's
getting sick. I was watching on the news.
It was like, in the States obviously, 43
states are calling this a - I don't even
know - national disaster, or some
ridiculous news-like term. But it is
the flu season and every year, 5-20
percent of the population gets the flu.
And obviously these are state statistics,
so I'm sorry for those of you who aren't
in the States but that gives you a rough
idea. I'm sure it's very similar
everywhere. But that means that a lot
of us are getting sick. And if we're not
getting sick, a lot of people around us
are getting sick. Aghh. For germophobes
it's like the worst time of the year. But
anyway, so what do we do? We have to
prepare because the thing is, every year
over 200,000 people have hospital - bleh,
sometimes I can't talk - hospitalizations
due to flu complications. And you know who
those people are? That end up in there?
The elderly, children, and people who are
already sick. And guess what? We sometimes
fall in that category. Right? Because
we're not eating properly, we're not
really taking care of ourselves, and so
our immune system is really depressed and
we don't really have anything to fight it
off. We don't have any of those good bugs
that fight off the bad bugs. Right? I
think that's what they call them. But
anyway, like I said, I'm not a doctor. But
we need to prepare. And something I
always do every year in preparation, so
that I am strong and I can fight, is I
get the flu shot. And you know now - like
okay, one of my best friends, and I'm
not gonna call her out by name but I hope
she watches this and she laughs to
herself, she's deathly afraid of needles.
I mean, one year, cause she works in HR,
they gave shots, flu shots, in the office
(ah!) she couldn't even handle it - so now
it's like a tenth of the size of the
needle it used to be. You don't even see
it. It's like the smallest needle ever. So
for those of you who are afraid, just like
look over to the side and like talk to
somebody 'cause it will be done before
you know it and the needle is not even -
I don't even know how it gets in to do
what it needs to do - so, flu shot. What
else do we do? We hydrate. Now I hear
from a lot of you, and I hear from a lot
of my clients, "I don't drink water
because I'll gain water weight..." No.
Not now. Not now. Water is good. Our body
needs water and I know, if anything, if
you're eating disorder is like a calorie
counting, then that doesn't even count.
So please fight back against that voice.
Do my first task in my workbook. Fight
back, because you need to stay hydrated.
That's like my number one most scary thing
that I hear from my clients is, "I don't
drink water." Because we can go longer
without food that we can water. So please
drink water. Okay. So we're gonna stay
hydrated. And we're gonna get our flu
shots. Yes, yes, yes. And then, take
preventative measures. Take vitamin C.
Drink some orange juice in the morning.
I'm a huge fan of Emergen-C. And no this
is not a plug. If they were paying me that
would be awesome, but they're not. But
Emergen-C is great. You can throw it in
your water. You shake it up. I have like
little water bottles that I take with me
to work every day and I drink and fill
and drink and fill. Right? 'Cause I'm
talking all the time. La-La-La. I get
really dry. Water. And I just fill it with
Emergen-C. Ta-da! I think it has like
a thousand-whatever milligrams of
Vitamin C to make us strong, so we can
fight. Right? Because the flu can really
take us out. And the thing that's the
worst is because we are already immune
system depressed, right? Our immune system
is like, "I just can't! I don't have it in
me! I'm gonna take a nap!" instead. But,
because that's already happening and we
are already weak, and we may not be eating
enough, the flu really takes us out. And
then, guess what? Our little eating
disorder is like, "ha ha! I'm gonna take
advantage of this and I'm gonna make you
do this" and no more! Now you've been
feeling sick, you've been throwing up,
you've had a fever, no appetite,
'cause that's a bad side effect of getting
sick, right? It's like, "ha ha! We win!"
No! Bad! Bad eating disorder! No more!
Right? 'Cause it kind of takes advantage
of when we're down and out and it's like
"I'm gonna get you." So, we need to
protect ourselves. So make sure you're
doing those things. Go get the flu shot.
CVS, Walgreens - I want to say it's like
$10. I think I paid $10. Plus tax or
whatever else they want to charge you for.
It probably cost me 15 by the time I was
out of there. But, do that. Get that. Get
some Emergen-C. They come in a box for
like $14, although I live in L.A. so
I'm probably getting screwed. It's
probably like $9.99 somewhere where
you guys are. But, get it. Pick it up.
There's Zicam.