Camogirlie’s BodyBlog

Being that you are reading this, you’re probably into working out and share a great love of the fitness lifestyle.. So like me, I’m sure you hear/get certain comments ALL the time that you are just really tired of hearing.. Below are a few of mine..

-“I use to look like you.. When I was younger.”  First thing that comes to my mind.. What changed?!?!  If you use to look like me, why wouldn’t you want to maintain that and continue looking awesome.. Okay, okay.. So you had a baby.. well… that was 3 years ago.. You’ve had plenty of time to change things around.. there are AMAZING women out there that have had children and you wouldn’t even be able to tell.. They didn’t make excuses, so why should you! 

-“I wish I had time to go to the gym”…. I understand some people are busy.. But there is ALWAYS time for it if you really want to do it.. You will make time for it…. You have time to go home and sit on your butt watching TV right.. How about taking a walk after dinner.. Just getting up and doing SOMETHING is better than sitting there wishing… I chose to get up and go to the gym at 3am, so that I have plenty of time to workout, pack my lunch and get ready and be at work by 6am… I make time for it…  If you have children, take them to the park.. Have them ride there bike while you go for a walk.. Just stop being lazy!

-“I wish I was as dedicated/motivated as you”…I admit there are days were I just want to sleep in, stay home do NOTHING.. But I get up anyways.. I know I will feel much better once I do.. But why can’t you be as dedicated as me?!?!  It’s a mental thing.. You see it as this unattainable task.. Like its SOOO exhausting.. So you defeat yourself before you even try..  I just don’t give myself an option.. Just do it.. Because when I’m standing there looking in the mirror and I’m not 100% satisfied with what I see, I only have myself to blame.. It wasn’t my boyfriend sitting there eating chips on the couch.. No it was ME because I couldn’t resist and had to stick my hand in the bag… You just have to want it bad enough and the motivation and dedication will follow.. I also have pictures of awesome bodies everywhere.. I have them at work on my walls, on my phone, on the fridge.. Fitness magazines literally everywhere in my house!  So I’m not perfect.. every now and then I still need me a pick me up.. So I go online and look at my favorite physiques… Before you know it I’m putting on my gym clothes and heading out the door cause I cant wait!  

So I turned 21 on Tuesday and I never really have understood the whole hoopla about turning 21.. wait.. I take that back (sarcastically) I am now of legal age to consume alcoholic beverages… That’s why EVERYONE else gets excited about turning 21… I on the other hand am not a regular run of the mill 21 year old.. I get up at 3am Monday-Friday to go to the gym and lift weights.. then after working an 8 hour day go back to the gym for cardio.  I calculate and measure out pretty much every single piece of food I put into my mouth.. My favorite past time…. Checking out hot bodies and reading up on anything I can related to working out.. My family knows of my fitness related lifestyle, all my co-workers know of my lifestyle, even my friends do.. so why is it so hard for people to understand that JUST because I turned 21 doesn’t mean I automatically want to go out to the bar and get wasted! If I wanted to drink, I would regardless if I’m 21 or not… I don’t want to go to the bar because I could care less about drinking.. I never have been into drinking/partying….But now, since having a sculpted physique is a major part of my life I REALLY REALLY don’t want to go to the bar…. All those extra calories and empty carbs can do hazardous things to my goal.  Why is it that when I say “no, I’m not into drinking, thanks though” people think I’m joking… Or they say “why, boyfriend wont let you go”.. I guess I’m just at that age were partying is just what your suppose to do.. Well that’s cool.. I don’t want to be like everyone else.. If I wanted to be like everyone else, I would sleep in, eat lunch out every single day rather than having my portion controlled packed snacks, come home sit on my butt while I eat a bag of cheetos, and maybe some cookies after….  Eventually people will leave me alone about the whole “we are SO taking you out to the bar!!” thing.. and finally realize that no I don’t want to go because I’m choosing not to go…. I just think its so funny how its such a big deal to people.. the looks on there faces are hilarious.. and when they do the head tilt, and scrunch up there face because they are so confused as to why I’m not jumping at the opportunity to go have drinks makes me giggle inside! 

So, since ive been eating clean things have been going really well.. I havent had any cravings, over ate or even cheated. I feel sorta dumb like i should have been doing this all along if its so easy for me.. I write down what i eat every single day, make sure i do my cardio.. and things are going awesome.. Saw my nutritionist last Sunday and ive lost a little over 6lbs, and 2% body fat so far! Yes im finally on the right track!! 

Some down sides/funny quirks to my eat clean, eat on a schedule diet.. 

-Fish smell at work=VERY unhappy coworkers!! 

-Making sure i always have something good to eat when im out and about on the weekends. 

-Always getting the “why are you drinking so much water” or “what are you eating”, “why arent you eating what we are eating” questions.. It gets annoying after awhile.. then when i tell them i chose not to eat what they are eating because i have a goal in mind. Then i get the scowls, and the “youre stick skinny, you dont need to lose weight.. were are you gonna lose weight on your eyelashes” -oh yes, ive heard that a couple of times.. 

-Weird looks from people at the grocery store as i go from isle to isle picking up just about every single box on the shelves-reading the label, then putting it back on the shelf..LOL!! I think its hilarious! People probably think i have some weird box touching OCD! 

-The over-abundant collection of plastic containers i now have spilling out of every drawer in my kitchen. 

Some AWESOME things about my my eat clean, eat on a schedule diet.. 

-Finding new recipes to whip up! 

-Finding food that is good for me but tastes just as good if not better than the REAL fatty enhanced version. 

-Learning to experiment with my cooking, being creative. 

-OH AND OF COURSE RESULTS!!!!! 

So, what inspired this blog.. Well.. This Saturday night my boyfriend and I are taking my mom and step dad out to dinner at my step dads favorite restaurant for his birthday. Well, i am very serious about my ways of eating now, and just because its someones birthday doesnt mean im going to throw in the towel for the day.. So the past few days ive been thinking “what can i eat there!! Surely im not going to bring in my tupperware containers to a fancy restaurant”  A few minutes ago i went onto the restaurants website, and i looked up there nutritional info on there meals.  I printed it out, and as i sat there highlighting potential meals, and dividing some of the portions in half, some even in 4ths, i giggled at myself.. I thought ‘WOW! Look at me.. Im already so adapted to this life style its not even funny.. its only been a few weeks and its been cake! Most people would take every advantage of this birthday situation to splurdge and eat whatever!’ Im so pleased with my progress, and how im doing!  Ive been tossing the idea around about getting my diet on track for a long time now.. But i finally have my foot in the door and making long sturdy strides to my goal.. 

      So Saturday night I had a dream that I was competing… which is weird cause I really have no desire to compete.. But in my dream I was all excited and totally pumped for the competition. I was putting on layer after layer of my tan… checking it out in a big mirror.. and putting my sparkly purple two piece suit on…. THEN I realized “OMG I haven’t been dieting.. I’m SO not prepared.. I’m gonna look terrible out there on stage!!!” I looked the way I do now, which is for sure not competition shape… But I went out there and did it anyways.. I don’t remember the actual competition part of my dream.. but I think I won.. LOL!!! (YEAH RIGHT!!) But I was walking around after the show still in my suit and heels with a big trophy in my hand.. I ran up to my mom who was crying cause she was so proud.. my whole family was there, and a bunch of my friends.. it was totally random.. But I do have weird dreams often.. I just thought it was funny cause I was totally scared and nervous I could feel it in my stomach in my dream.. I give major props to those who actually do compete.. I got a little dosage of what its like in my dream.. and dang its stressful!!

So I took last week off from lifting.  My muscles were pretty fatigued considering I only take on day off from the gym a week and I never slack when it comes to pushing myself in the gym. It’s also been almost 6 months since I had a break! This morning was my first day back in the gym and I’m VERY excited.  I’ve got butterflies in my tummy right now just thinking about the week ahead.. I know I’m weird…But whatever, I don’t care!   Even though I took a week off I don’t feel like I lost much muscle.  My arms still feel strong and hard, and they still have the same definition.  And it’s been almost a month since I did legs.  I do legs on Saturdays and the past month has been seriously busy with crap on Saturdays.  But yet.. my legs still feel strong and hard also.. Normally after I take a week off from lifting (let alone a month from legs) everything feels soft and I feel like I’m starting all over again.. But this time I don’t feel like that at all.. So I’m really excited to see what kinda gains/progress I can get considering I don’t feel like my itty bitty muscles melted away.. Last week I looked up some calculators on BB.com for how many cals, pro, carbs, fat grams I’m suppose to be taking in each day…. I’m not entirely sure HOW accurate it is considering I don’t know that my BF% is accurate.  But I’m planning on writing down what I eat in my food journal!  So here goes nothing….

So over the weekend as I would pass myself in the mirror I would think “huh! Looking good! Making improvements.”   I felt really confident!  I can actually see that i’m making progress for a change.  My abs are starting to show and I can feel that my ab muscles are a lot stronger and harder!  Needless to say I’m really excited!  I bought Hydroxycut Hardcore this weekend, and I started taking it today, so I’m hoping that it will give me more energy and help me lose some body fat.  I rested all weekend and even skipped Leg day on Saturday so that I could rest up to continue to push hard in the gym and get results.  I feel good, and I can’t wait for the upcoming week!!

So I’m starting to get really weak and tired.  I think I’m in need of a break.  I hate taking breaks cause I always lose muscle and I’m JUST starting to make some great progress.  When I take breaks I always feel fat, lazy and gross!  But I know that if I don’t take a break it can only bring bad things.  I will just continue to get increasingly more tired and soon enough I won’t show any progress.  When I take breaks, I feel like ALL my hard work just went to waste!  Maybe things will be different this time since I’m eating clean now.  Ugh!  I don’t want to take a break! 

So i came home today and went to go take some new pics to put up, and instead of making me feel good, i just ended up feeling down… Im just discouraged.  I know results are not instant, and they do take awhile.. But its not like i sit on my butt all day long and eat junk.  I KNOW i should eat better than i do, and ive heard it more than once that "eating good is 80% of looking good." Maybe im not eating ENOUGH, if that makes any sense.  I know that if you dont eat enough when you are really active that (especially being female) your body goes into "starvation" mode and holds onto whatever you eat.  I dont have a ton of fat to lose, and those last few are usually the hardest.  It just seems like i NEVER see results.  I take pictures often, and they all to look the same.  I just have to keep at it.. And continue to think positively!