What To Do When You Get The Flu?

I may just meet my weight loss goal for this next week. . .but not from a great diet & exercise.
The Hubbs & I came down with a bad case of the flu for the past 24-48 hours and it got rid of a bunch of water weight.  Sadly, that won't stay gone.
I didn't think I was that bad off, just a little bit queasy, so I tried going to the gym that first morning.  10 minutes into the workout, I found myself "meditating" instead of doing my circuit.  Haha.  Yeah. . .
Well, I tried.  I seriously thought I would be ok and then it just didn't happen.  By the time I got home I was so wasted I flopped onto the couch, my near 2-year-old ran to his toys, and my Hubbs slept soundly in the bedroom. 
Sadly, as the mother, I got the joy of playing nursemaid and invalid and chef all day to my small family.  Luckily nobody stopped by or else they would have been hit with a house littered with toys, piles of laundry (clean--I was just too tired to fold & put away), and a pile of dishes--from what, I am still not sure.  Seriously--we couldn't eat anything and all I could bring myself to fix the lil' one was pureed fruit/veggie packs, crackers, cheese, apple slices, spoons of peanut butter, and pouring Naked Smoothies into a sippy cup.  Very low on the dish-making scale.
Now that the sickness has passed, I am feeling like I have so much extra energy!  It is like when you go through times of not having money when you find $20 in an old jacket you suddenly feel like a millionaire.  :)
So, now I have all these grand plans of what to do for the day, including putting away the laundry, going to the gym and giving a good (but not pushing too hard just in case my body is not totally fixed) workout, planning out meals for the week, giving my son a much-needed haircut, doing the dishes, and airing out the stench of sickness from our small apartment. 
I am so grateful for health!  Despite the rotund nature of my belly, I am getting healthier every day and it feels great.  I get discouraged, but I can be confident that I am doing everything I can to choose health.