Becomming A Fitness Competitor

Well it’s been a week since I started my new workout/diet plan. Today I weighted and I’m happy to inform you… I’ve lost 5 lbs in 1 week. It seems a lot but I think I have to be thankful for the thing they call “muscle- memory”.

I’ve worked out hard and made healthy food choices. Ok I had 2 slices of pizza Friday, but it had only cheese topping. AND it was a medium size pizza AND extra thin crust. I usually eat a whole large by myself. LOL. Still, I had 6 portion controlled meals through out the day.

Ok it’s Monday! This will be my workout for today. I’ll do supersets. Maybe my notion of what superset means inaccurate, but here is what I’ll be doing.

Legs (4x 15 reps), Biceps & Triceps (12,10,8 reps.)

Smith Machine Squats     No rest     Smith Machine Lunges 

Rest 1 minute

Seated Leg Extensions    No rest    Seated Leg Curls
Rest 1 minute

E-Z Bar Bicep Curls         No rest    E-Z Bar Lying Skull Crushers (triceps)
Rest 1 minute
Preacher Curls                 No rest    Overhead DB Extensions
Rest 1 minute
Alternate DB Hammer Curls    No rest  Triceps Kickbacks 

Rest 2 minutes

HITT Cardio:  Treadmill 12 minutes, level 6: lowest speed 5 km/h,   highest 9.3 km/h. Steps 12 minutes, level 7
 

Stretching exercise Total workout: 1.5 hours

 

I’ve gained some weight again. I was pissed at myself for letting it happen. Monday morning I weighted 145lbs! It didn’t happen over night though… So I’ve started a new workout program and cleaned my diet too.

As you can see I’m 100% motivated and determined. I should have waited till next week, but I weighted this morning and I’ve lost 3.5lbs already. YAY!!!My goal is to weigh approx. 130lbs by the end of september; 3lbs per week. Hmmm, maybe it’s too ambitious … 

After reading a lot of articles and books, asking for tips here and there (phillipvalenti, nms125, Thanks guys) and watching workout vids (MsFitness, the fit show, BuffMother), I’ve created my own workout program and diet plan.

This week was a try-out. I’ve been polishing my program and now I think I have the “perfect” plan.
I used the article: Workout Plan Of The Month: March; Lower Body Slim-Down/Upper Body Mass Gaining! By: Todd Opheim, as the initial concept. (see link favourite bb.com articles) & The Feb 07 FitnessRX magazine: workout plan for spot reduction. It’s HARD, but I love to do heavy workouts. To feel the soreness the next day and even the day after that! LOL

Working out won’t be enough though… that’s why I’ve adapted my diet too.  I’m writing every thing down. What I eat, when, the quantity. I make even little notes on the bottom. How I feel at the end of the day for example.

I’ll be posting more on my bodyblog. Writing things down does help a lot.

Well guys I hope you’re all doing great and achieving your goals too…..

I like this site because the people inspire and motivate me. I see women, and men of course, with amazing bodies. Some are models, some compete and some just work out to look good/better. But there is one thing that really annoys me; FAKE people. I don’t mind the extremely sexy, almost nude pictures that much. Even though I think that there are other sites for those. I just can’t understand why they have to pretend to be something they are not. For instance…

I saw a picture of a very beautiful girl. Drop-Dead-Gorgeous. She’s wearing almost nothing (with a body like hers I wouldn’t either) but she wrote that she just woke up and wasn’t wearing any makeup. Well for people that couldn’t see it, truly believed her I guess. When you clicked on her picture to enlarge it, you could see that she WAS wearing makeup. Hilarious!! Or she has it tattooed on her face… who knows!

Now I see that some people are getting very creative with photoshop, or a better guess, some cheap editing software. I mean… what are we doing??? As a technical drawer that works with photoshop, I have to say… it’s done very badly. Almost cartoon-ish!    I do have flaws… lots of flaws actually. That’s why I work my butt off literally, no seriously… I have a huge butt Being a little creative with poses, holding your gut in, flexing your muscles till your eyes pop out is ok, but photoshop? That’s kind of cheating and at the end YOU are the one looking like a fool!   Just post pictures of the way you really look like. We are here to help each other out by motivation, not to criticize. If there is something to be criticized about, is not that you don’t look like you can fit in a size –2, but that you shouldn’t play with software that you can’t work with!! I’m just saying…

I don’t know why I made such a big deal about me turning 30 on august 1st. I felt like it was the beginning of the end. Armageddon!! Yeah I can be a drama queen sometimes. People tell me I don’t look a day older than 25, sooo… conveniently I believe them.

If I compare myself to some friends and collegues, I do look good. No wrinkles yet to be seen. I drink plenty of water and I try eating a lot of fresh vegetables and I use a bunch of creams on my face and body. Ok I have pretty good genetics too. Thanks Mam!! I want to age gracefully but I will postpone it as long as I can.

And if you ask me how it feels to be 30?

I FEEL ABSOLUTELY, FREAKING GREAT!!

There’s something comforting about food. Every time I go through a rough phase I comfort myself with food. Like a best friend, you can always count on it. It’s always there when you need it. It doesn’t need to hear why I’m down, It knows, and knows what to do to lift my spirits up. 

It’s a disturbing relationship. I find myself in the kitchen, diggin’ in the fridge. And there it is…. Or there they are! Hmmmm… Fooooood.! Even if I don’t have junk at home I MAKE something. Do I crave something sweet or salty… maybe sour… sweet-sour… bittersweet… sweet-greasy….salty-greasy… all of the above? 

When I eat I feel this ecstasy… can’t describe it. I can’t imagine something better than having the first bite off an apple-pie…or a hot pizza slice. Afterwards I always feel guilty, nauseated and disgusted. Than it’s monday…. And I end up making up for it.

Friday 

Drink yogurt fatfree, sugar free 

2 apple pie 

4 slices of pizza thin crust, minced meat & veggies 

4 chicken wings, no sauce 

brownies w. walnuts 

diet coke 

green tea 

1 handful cashew nuts unsalted 

Saturday 

1 slice leftover pizza 

5 leftover chicken wings 

2 chicken fajita’s with gouda cheese & sour cream 

baked potato chips (whole sack) 

brownies 

Sunday 

Drink yogurt fatfree, sugar free 

3 gouda cheese fajitas w. sour cream 

left over brownies 

My bf used to tell me quite often to do something about my weight. I gained weight in the last few years, about 25 lbs. But it was me complaining about it all the time is what drove him crazy. So I started working out in January 2006. Once at the gym some people kept asking me why I wanted to lose weight. Comments like: “You look fine to me” & the classic one “Some junk in the trunk”. Yeah right! As I started losing weight, I got more compliments of how well I was doing and so on. One guy told me that it was a pity that I lost a great deal of my butt. Not sure if that was a compliment or not, but I was happy that my butt was getting smaller. Or less bigger, depending if you’re the half empty or half full glass kinda person. I mean, it’s never going to go away (don’t want to have a pancake-butt either) but smaller….won’t hurt.   

Now a female colleague tells me that my face is too thin, and she’s always asking me what I’m eating, if I’m eating enough. She looks at me like I have an eating disorder. The other day a guy tells me that I have to get rit of that tiny fat roll on my oblique. “Than you’d be perfect”.. HUH?? For heavens sake… I’m working on that. You can hardly see it, a few weeks of cardio and it’s gone….I hope. Later that same night my bf tells me that I’m my hip bones are starting to show and that he’s not to trilled about that. He ‘prefers’ me having a little fat roll…it’s more feminine.   

IS IT EVER GONNA BE GOOD ENOUGH??   I try really hard to stay focused on achieving my goals, but with everybody having a comment about how I should or shouldn’t look?! Okay the compliments I don’t mind…at all. (I can be vain…) But the negativity…maybe I’m not good on taking criticism. Or I just simply don’t get it.   

Just wanted to air my frustration!!