ArmdandFabulous’s BodyBlog

I live here in Vegas right where it is held, but never went to one until yesterday…it was actually my first bodybuilding event ever….and to say the least I felt like I had walked into some alternate universe of the "beautiful people"…

Never knew there were that many impossibly perfect men and women that even existed in the world!!…they were definitely all gathered together in one place yesterday–the convention center right here in Vegas for this year’s Olympia..plenty of eye candy for women and for men..ok, a little too much for the men to look at for my taste, but that is always the case, isn’t it??…lol…Most of the really attractive men were the spectators walking around, and most of the gorgeous women were the ones behind the booths working for the supplement companies…this may be the "norm" for these type of events but since it was my first one I have no basis for comparison, it was a completely new experience to me…kinda felt like..oh..so this is what the girls who work in the nightclubs do during the daytime..lol

Even though I have made a lot of progress this past year, in that environment I felt fat and felt the same way I did before I ever started on my transformation–invisible to the opposite sex…not a good feeling!…as I walked around,  it started eating at me as I saw more and more perfect women behind those booths..and I actually began craving pizza! I even gave serious thought to getting some for dinner…lol…emotional craving at it’s most obvious!..

Now I know this might seem like a "non issue" to some, but I’m just keeping it real…I didn’t know what to expect going into it, guess I just imagined all the gorgeous men and forgot there’d be women there too…lol

Moving on–since I had lots of water before I went, the first thing I looked for was the bathroom…of course, there was a little line to get in but just a couple women were waiting and standing about 3 feet from me …using the mirror…was..Alicia Marie from Oxygen magazine!!..oh my it was so odd seeing someone in person who I see every month in a magazine..felt like I was seeing a movie star…I know, this sounds so "uneventful" for some of you who go to these things regularly, but to me, remember it’s a totally new experience…and Alicia is just GORGEOUS and taller than I pictured too…after this I even saw her out walking around and had to keep myself from staring, she is just so…impossibly perfect! She even looks better in person than in the magazine, if that’s even possible!

Then one of the first booths I walk past I see out of the corner of my eye–Pauline Nordin! She is gorgeous too, and really little! Not little muscles though …I really didn’t know I’d be standing so close to these professional fitness people and I had a hard time not standing there staring at them, like I am at a zoo looking at the animals…lol…I had to tell myself, ok, keep moving before they notice me eyeballing them…

As I walked around I saw Lou Ferrigno, Ava Cowan, Monica Brant..and probably some others but didn’t know their names…everyone looked great in person…Lou looks like he lost some weight from his "Everybody Loves Raymond" show days…

Before going to the event, I was told that the companies give out so many free samples of product that you could get almost 3 months supply out of it…and anyone who I talked to who had been to it before told me the same thing..so I brought my duffle bag hoping to need it…as I walked around I saw lots and lots of product brochures on tables and little cups of little samples, but not at all what I was picturing…I was imagining them giving away containers of protein powder and energy drinks, not individual one serving packets…so I didn’t get as many free samples as I thought I would, but the prices of the product were cut in half, and I did end up buying some protein and superpump250 for a really good deal!….the people who told me about all the free stuff were men, so maybe that has something to do with it, and the fact that the ones giving away the samples were mostly women…possibly they are more generous with the opposite sex??…hmmm…I don’t know, I just didn’t get near the amount of free stuff as I had imagined…maybe it’s the economy and they cut back this year?

The contests going on were cool…I watched the strongest man and wondered how they didn’t end up straining their lower backs when they picked up those cement balls and lifted them onto the platforms…I wouldn’t want to attempt it!…There was also a bikini contest happening I watched a couple minutes of…the guys I was standing near were actually trying to record it on their phones as if they were at a concert..thought that was interesting??…weird?…pervish??…lol

I also got to meet Pat who works for Gaspari…he is the one who helped me out with my superpump250 issue..nice guy!

So all in all I found it to be quite interesting…I wondered if by going to this I might uncover an interest in myself to start competing..but no, not at this time at least…

…and I somehow fought off the pizza craving after leaving, and stuck to salmon for dinner!!..woohoo

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