Operation Iceberg: Day 4

– April 25, 2010Posted in: recovery

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My TCM therapist has suggested a two week (yep 14 days) protocol. The aim is to kick my metabolism into overdrive and tell my hypothalamus to get going.

Day 4

Weather: overcast, windy, max of 19ºC
Beach: Maslins Beach (northern end)
Surf: strong and stormy
Time: 8.10-8.20am mission aborted. surf was insane.
Observations: got my butt kicked in the surf too much so I came home and had a cold shower forc10 minutes instead.
RHR: oops
Waking Temp: 35.7 hmmm getting worried. Low again tomorrow and I’ll skip my session

About Michelle

Michelle is passionate about showing people how easy it is to prepare food that is healthy and packed full of flavour. She has just completed her first recipe book, Healthy Helpings: fast food for fit physiques. She began sharing her love of food in 2007, when she produced two series of the online cooking show ‘Healthy Helpings TV’, making fast food healthy and healthy food fast. In 2008 she competed in bodybuilding as a novice figure shaping competitor and she remains passionate about physique sports. She was a 2009 Australian Masterchef semi-finalist, and contributes articles to Oxygen Magazine Australia. Michelle lives with her husband on the Fleurieu Peninsula in South Australia, where she loves to search out new ingredients and food ideas from local farmers markets, health food shops and ethnic grocers, and take her two dogs on long rambles through the vineyards.