Alisonvb’s BodyBlog

1 more day to go! I’m sooo excited! I can’t believe its finally here. Yesterday I began the glorious carbing up. I spent a record breaking 7 days at no carbs..and actually learned to really enjoy the grapefruit as opposed to my usual oatmeal lol. I began cutting water wednesday night and I can really feel it.   So far I’ve lost 2.5lbs of water! Unreal what the last week can do for a competitor.

I took my last shower and shave last night (so I should be nice and ripe by game time). I just finished my last hour of cardio which was fantastic, I had a lot of energy and worked up a great sweat. Now I have the rest of the day ahead of me. I’ll go for a polygraph this afternoon ("no i do not use steroids), and then its back to work until around 5:30. I have planned to get my hair washed at the salon and a late night MAC appt so I can look beautiful first thing in the morning. The last 3 shows I’ve done, I have had my makeup (only eyes) done the night before so that during pre-judging, I don’t look how I actually feel, which is usually miserable.

After the makeup is put on I go for a coat of jan-tana. I have been tanning everyday for the last 3 weeks, so I have built a nice tan. Tomorrow morning will be used for touch ups and pumping up.

Can’t wait!

Ironically, today I have an abundance of energy. This is day 6 of carb depletion and I feel pretty darn good. I am very very sore, any little bit of training I do feels like the hardest workout of my life. Muscle recovery time is definitely suffering, but in terms of my mental state, I’m moving right along. This could be the fumes I’m feeling and overall excitement for saturday, but who cares. People ask me if i’m "ready", well..ready or not here I come. I gave myself 4 weeks to get in stage shape. I think i’ll be ok. At this point, I’d like to be alot harder in my mid section but the suit fits and i’m confident everything will pull together by saturday. I’m very very excited to compete again. And this is where I try and remember this feeling and re-read it over and over because I know I was seriously struggling earlier. But this final stretch is so worth it. This particular show is a new one for me. I’ve entered in to a new organization so we’ll see how that goes.