The Shinchi Ultimatum

If there is anything I bring back from Australia, that is flu + fever. Have visited wildlife parks most days and only contacted like 10 people average per day, me and my wife decided that it was the last day of the trip, when we are on board of a crowded ferry, that I caught the virus. Luckily my wife has an natural immunity to flu (she never had a flu in her life, her so call ‘I caught a flu’ is only mere cough that recovers within 1-2 hours, amazing), and me, being very susceptible to it, inherited from my father, soon find myself coughing , sneezing, and almost incapacitated.

The good news out of the bad one is that the doctor confirmed that it is not the H1N1 swine flu, as that will almost always began with attacks of body ache and then the onset of fever. For me, the body ache is non-existence and I am safe. Another good news is that the fever rise my metabolism so high that manage to drop 3.3 pounds. Since I can still lift as much weights as I can, I fathom its burning my body fat. So yea, I am now 66.5 kg thanks to the fever.

My biggest mistake is to continue my usual diet, thinking that a good nutritious diet will heal me like wolverine with a bullet in his head. What is eat is bascially lots of non-fat yogurt, cottage cheese, lots of whey protein, and salmon. These diet burn my fat and recover my muscles from interval trainings before I am sick. And coupled with that, lots of nuts and fiber-high food to slow down the release of carbs into my blood. The results? My body now works hard at digesting the high protein, and at the same time, has to fight the virus. It does not takes a genius to predict what state I ended myself with.

A search on Google shows that if I continue a protein high diet, a flu that takes 2 days to recover might drag to a week, and worse. Immediately, I drop all these and switch to a high-flu diet, nothing goes in my mouth except ginger tea, honey, lots of water and the medication. Now just 12 hours later I feel like a renewed man, and really to run my 10 km run I crave for so long.

Well not really, the mucus, will block my breathing, but yes, proteins works well on training days. Flu ? I bond new friendship with Mr Ginger.