Today is a new day and another chance to choose recovery.

I have been battling the flu for the past few days and not feeling well at all. My appetite was null and nothing sounded appealing. This meant reverting back to my basic rules of three. Three meals, three snacks, no more than 3 hours between eating.

While I am not quite fully healed, I am certainly feeling better - just the woozy fatigue and weakness remaining. My appetite has returned, but in times like this, I can go to the extreme shoving everything in sight in my pie hole. Again, rules of three. I am finding meal shakes work best for breakfast followed by s simple morning snack.

I am feeling more resolve and less depression, which helps too. I am recognizing that while suffering is a choice, pain is inevitable. Feeling the pain, rather than numbing it, is the only way to get to the other side.