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I haven’t been here for quite some time now. I’ve taken my pictures down too. I kind of lost track on where I was heading. I received lots of encouragements, comments and pm’s on my progress. And I thank you all for that. 

I was doing good for the past months, but I started to have more cheat meals and missing workouts now and then. After a while I started to feel a bit of a fake person cause I wasn’t looking like “that” anymore. 

I recently graduated as a 3D designer. YAY! So the past few months I was more focused on that. But I still managed to keep my diet as clean as I could (considering the stress and anxieties) and I even scheduled my morning cardio in again. I didn’t do any weights though for about 3-4 weeks straight.(believe me I’m kicking myself on the butt right now) I’ve missed it.  

So It’s time for new workout- schedules and I’m going to my trainer (diet + supps) this friday to measure and weight myself to see what the damage has been. I’ll take some new pics too and post them. I just hope I didn’t lose all of my friends during my absence. 

Oh by the way I might changed my profile name to Piaroa, but I’m still the same girl from Holland. Hope you all are doing great 

First thing my trainer said was that I have to lose a lot of bodyfat. While grabbing my triceps and saddle bags! I also have a lot of fat on the inner side of my knees and inner thighs. I do have cellulite on my butt and hamstrings. When I flex my tricep you’ll see cellulite on there too. And I have a fatroll on my lower back. I’m not discouraged though. I know I need to work very hard to achieve this. I look damn good already, imagine how it will be after I reached my goal. LOL

I have a trainer now. Well she’s more of a guide. I have to travel an hour, hour and a half to get to her shop, but it’s worth it. She takes my measurements, helps me with my diet and supplementation. Sends me home with ”homework”. which is basicly workouts to target my problem areas. 

She is sooo awesome and HUGE, and the sweetest person I’ve ever met. She has been in bodybuilding for over 15 years and before that she was in other sports too. Trained a lot of girls to the top 3 and she has her own supplement shop. AND she judges BB competitions in the Netherlands too. We talked for hours. She took my bf%. 28.4 %…. I’m the same since september though. We’ll not entirely true. The thing is I’m now 30 so I have to look for my % in the column 30-39 instead of 17-29.
The strange thing is that I’ve gained weight since than. OVER 8 LBS!!!  I’m a bit puzzled about that. I made a lot of progress in my upper body. My legs stayed quite the same, maybe a little more toned than before. But I didn’t gain any significant amount in inches or lose any. It doesn’t make any sense to me. Oh well…
 
My trainer gave me a new meal plan. Lots and lots of fish and egg- whites. The curious thing is that I’ve started to smell funny. FUNKY! I have a canine sense of smell so I smell things a mile in the air. When it’s just a few inches away and on me all day, the whole day, it drives me crazy!! I don’t use any perfume because of the poignant smell. But now I use half a bottle after showering. hehehe
 
She also gave me “homework” to target my problem areas. Yes Tricep extentions, walking lunges and single leg press twice a week on top of my regular workout-schedule. I have to lose around 18% bf to be competition- ready next fall. Breath… breath… one % at the time… keep breathing!!

I stopped using Gaspari’s, Size On and Super Pump. Some people advice to cycle creatine out for a few weeks. I didn’t even finish using the tubs. It just doesn’t work for me, at least not as good as BSN did. I’m not saying it’s a bad product though. What works for A doesn’t have to work for B. I’m always open for new things. (as long as it’s not life threatening of course) I try before I say: No I don’t like it. 

I made a huge progress using the Cell Mass and the No-xplode. It only gave me that crash feeling after my workouts. (wallet crashed too ;)) I didn’t have this with Gaspari (not really cheap either), but I didn’t feel the rush or pump so you shouldn’t have to feel drained afterwards either, do you? 

I did notice that I don’t get those awful cramps anymore. I’m not talking about sore muscles. Still have those and I LOVE IT! I used to get cramps in the middle of the night while sleeping. Not anymore. Maybe it’s cause I was using creatine, which promotes rapid muscle recuperation????hmmm…. 

I did experience some water retention. (from both) Once again… some people retain water, others don’t.

My energy levell is getting low, but I still can lift as heavy as I normally do. Maybe it will descent as the weeks go by. Hope not. So I’ll be relying purely on my motivation for a while….

I’m ALWAYS open for suggestions!!! I want to get lean and defined!! 

I’m in love.  She’s beautiful, slender, sophisticated, glamorous AND smart. Light to the touch, not complicated. She’s just perfect!

I’m talking about my latest purchase. The LG KU990 Viewty. I’m a gadget freak. She’s the latest on smart phones. And smart she is. 5 mega pixel camera with auto focus and build in flash.  Looks more like a camera, with a huge touchscreen with only 3 keys at the bottom. Send, End and cancel. What else do you need?? On top of all this, it has the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube. I can check my emails, chat, surf the internet, listen to my favorite music….  And yes, you can make phone calls with it too. LOL

I’m training well…. in my opinion, but I’m eating like a pig. And christmas isn’t here yet. I just know I’m going to eat way too much. I gained 7 lbs the past few weeks and I’m jojo-ing my way to my goal. Which seems farther and farther away with every chips, cookies, pizza’s I devour on daily basis.

On top of everything my "trainer" is going to another gym. Leaving me behind… alone… with no clue what to do…. snif, snif. I learn a few things… I’ll do fine. Or just look for somebody else to help me out.

I don’t have as much self- discipline as I had a few months ago. Is it the cold weather? I don’t know. I still love working out and do it 4-5 times a week. But I’m lacking of true passion and will-power. If only I could bring myself to have more self-control. To be more determined.

I’m nagging, I know. Hope you all are having a great day!!

Today we celebrate sint Nicolas. Cheezy rhymes, gifts in creative packings, lots of chocolate and don’t forget the old man on a white horse with his black-painted-faces helpers in funny costumes. It’s just a variation on the santa we all know. Maybe they are distant cousins???  Oh well it’s fun. We sit in a group of friends/ relatives and and draw names from the person you’re supposed to buy a gift for. You make “surprices”. I’ve put a lot of efford in making the wrapping. Sometimes the wrapping costs more than the gift. Last year my friend hand to stick her hand in a hole of a box. It was all sticky with honey, body lotion, shaving cream just to pull out a pair of gold earrings. Hehehe. It’s not about the present but the funny stuff around it. I got a sex-kit which I had to perform a few embarassing positions with my husband. Wearing clothes of course. 

What I have on my wish list for the good santa this year? BSN Lean Dessert and BSN Cellmass. I’m getting broke buying this stuff.

I was grunting and cursing at my trainging buddy who I dearly call “tyrant”. Inside myself of course. I’m a well raised person, even though I wanted to throw the barbell in his face. R… if you’re reading this… I don’t really mean that.   At the end it’s for my own good, and I give a 100% every time. He’s helping me out so I’m not going to waste his time. But after my workout I wanted to crawl under a stone and die. LOL
I got cramps in the middle of the night. THAT HURT!! It happens a lot actually. I’ve heart that using creatine may help. Or was it glutamine?

Anyway my workout went like this:

DB shoulder press: 4 sets, first 20 reps short and last 5 full range motion.
Front plate raise   : 4 sets, first 20 reps short and last 5 full range motion.
Rear delt raise      : 4 sets, 20 full range motion

Close-grip bench press: 4 sets, first 20 reps short and last 5 full range motion.
One arm cable tricep extension: 4 sets, first 20 reps short and last 5 full range motion.

Alternate DB bicep curl: 4 sets, first 17 reps short and last 3 full range motion.
BB curl: 4 sets, first 7 reps short swinging the BB toward the chest stopping at chest height, the next 7 reps starting at chest height swinging it al the way at the top and last 7 full range motion.

Later today I’ll have anotherexcruciating workout. We’ll be doing chest and back….

The most humiliating thing happen to me yesterday. I did legs yesterday so I wore baggy pants . The gym was packed, every one wants to look good for the holiday.

I don’t feel comfortable wearing tight pants while I squat: half the gym is always staring at my butt. It’s huge, hard to miss. These pants are like two sizes bigger.  I went to the ladies room before doing my HITT routine on the treadmill. I always tie the knot a little bit tighter because I don’t like showing my panty line. It’s so tacky.

 
As I was sprinting I felt a cold breeze on my lower back/ butt area. I grabbed my pants just in time. Not only I was showing my panty line but half my butt. And I was wearing a very very old-torn-colourless-no elasticity string so anyone had a pretty good view. Not that my humilation would’ve been less if I was wearing lace panties. I felt like I could DIE. If only the earth could’ve split and drag me in!!
I just pulled my pants up, made a DOUBLE knot and continued doing my workout… like nothing happened. Fortunately no one said anything about it. I just hope no one saw anything….

I work out with this guy at the gym every now and then. He suggested a different way of training. Very light weight and lots of repetitions (failure) with high intensity. At first I was a little sceptical. I want to lose weight (body fat) and gain muscle definition. I know that because of the intensity you burn more calories and there for more fat. But what is it going to do for my muscle definition?  It takes a lot for a person to convince me, especially if you’re not a certified trainer. But he looks good, and for what he has told me… all natural… of course.
 
So I worked out the way he said and I did legs yesterday.… OMG!!! I’m sore everywhere. I have sore muscles that I didn’t even think I had to begin with. For example: Squats on the smith, 10 kg approx. 22lbs. (I usually do 20 kg 4 sets of 10-12 reps.) All the way down, over 90 degrees and half way up. I did 4 sets of 30-40 reps.
 
Jumping side squats on a platform, legpress, seated leg extension, seated leg curl, leg press and lying leg curl.
 
I have shoulders & traps today. I’m already freaking out. LOL Shoulder-workout is my least favorite workout, but the one I do most because I want to have beautiful strong shoulders.

I just ruined my diet. Unbelievable!! It all started when my sister called me that she was going to visit me with the family. So I bought al kinds of delicious things to cook. A Thais shrimp & noodle soup (coconut milk) and a white chocolate-ginger cheesecake for dessert. She calls me a day before that she can’t make it because she’s got the flu. Long story short:I ended eating everything myself, and it was sooo good! I’m so mad at myself, now I have to start all over again. 3 whole weeks just down the drain!!