Photo shoots and body comp 01/21/2009
Well the first week I lost that 4 lbs was so nice 
this week was a respectable 2 lbs lost but down a total of 2% in body fat as well; I only take circumferance measurements every 4th week, so those are still 2 weeks away. I have found out I will need to retake my before photos, which is fine as they only require an 8-week run on the supps/contest program ~ so I still have plenty of time!! I have a true pin-up photo shoot on the 24th of April with a really well known pin-up rockabilly photographer named Roy Varga ~ his work appears regularly in music, tattoo, and rockabilly magazines all over the place. I am so freaking excited about this and intend to have one tight bod for that!! I am doing the total classic pin-up shots with a super-fit body, not quite stage hard/ready.. but maybe 2 weeks out from that “look”.. his photos are soooo hot I cannot wait to add them to a portfolio ~ I have a tentative shoot in twon here in Denver for my “character” in my perfromance that’s coming up ~ doing promo pin-up shots for that on the 8th of Feb, should be funny considering there will be at least a 15 lb difference in the photos from February’s shoot to April’s shoot Who cares they will be awesome. There is a delay on my roller derby career as the try outs for the team I want to roll with has been moved, meh… bruises and hostility 
BodyComp today
Weight @ 0600 - 145.0 (-6 lbs total)
BFM% - 19.5 (did this 3x it never fluctuated; pinch and OMRON)
Cravings are gone generally, I am cycling carbs right now ~ want to really strip them out of my diet down to ZERO on no-carb days, I always seem to get some incidental carbs via fibrous veggies and all. I am currently running a cycle that looks like this; my moderate day comes only after a high day, to prevent the cravings that come with going right from High to Low. Also, its pretty low even for being “moderate”
Day 1 High
Day 2 Med
Day 3 ZERO
Day 4 ZERO
Day 5 High (cycle starts over again here)
Once my temp goes down upon waking, and I drop down to losing less than a lb, a will cut one of those high days out OR I will decrease the carb consumption on those days by about 25% to start, more if that doesn’t initiate another loss. It is nice after 6 competition diets, some 16-weeks long, and one year I dieted for 35 weeks straight..that I know my body really well now, and can tweak things here and there that I would have gone running to a “coach” for in the past ~ it would be nice to have one, but cannot afford it at all this year, too much spent the last two years and if anything it will go to Team U this summer; My motivation to keep up the work after this contest and get into national condiditon is really high lately, prob cause I dont want to have to requalify for junior/nationals again at the local level.
Here is some of the work that Varga does, a very small example; he has a lot of hot rod work, tat work, and of course photos that are much racier and not appropriate for this website. I am so excited!
Might I note this is a shot of a member of the band Necromantix and that is a killer home made stand up!! I want one
