Kick Ass & Take Names

I was just at a meeting for a competition ‘team’ that has formed in our area.  She was trying to tell us newbies about the ‘things to be expected’ in the weeks before the competition.  After hearing how crabby we’ll most likely get, feel like crap before, during & after the show & how the judging is very subjective (one year a muscular, ripped girl will win figure & then the next year they pick a smooth girl).  I was just wondering what is all this FUN everyone talks about???

I want to do a show for several reasons & none of those being that I expect to walk out of there with a trophy.  If I step foot on that stage, I will have accomplished my goal.  I will be very proud of myself & I know my family & friends will be bubbling over with excitement - especially my kids.  I want them to see me accomplish something ‘cool’. 

But I have to be around ‘bad food’ ALL the time & I can’t be too cranky at home or I will get ALOT of flak….

I get really pumped watching my body change, so I think I can hack the hard stuff & w/ all the support on here & at my gym, I know I’ll have the focus & push forward.  I would just love to hear some of the GOOD stuff so I can stop that ‘what have I gotten myself into????’ voice. 

Hey everyone,  I just got home from the mall with my daughter and her friend.  They are 9 and HAD to have those butter-soaked salt-covered pretzel nuggets.  I bought them & let them sit and eat them.  Of course, (all you parents know exactly where I’m coming from) my daughter hardly ate any of them because she was excited to spend her gift cert.  She didn’t want to throw them away……she wanted me to hold them for her.  So for about an hour, I walked around the mall holding our coats, an umbrella, my purse & these heavenly smelling nuggets.  Now I have been eating very clean for the past 5 months & on sunday, I committed to entering a figure show.  So for the past 3 days, I have been on a tough competition diet.  I had a headache all day, no energy & it was getting close to the time I needed to eat again! I really wasn’t tempted to eat any, but I thought it was quite funny & knew all of you would understand what I was going thru The sad thing is, it was so much easier to resist by looking at the other people in the mall, I can’t get over how every person I saw, was overweight to obese…..I choose clean!!

My laptop seems to have gotten a power surge last night and it is dead.  My iTunes were on there (along with my business stuff - groan). I’ve been trying to find a way to take the songs from my ipod into a new iTunes on a different computer. Not having any luck! I have a couple backup disks that I did, but none of my newer stuff is backed up! Shame on me.