Fitcent’s Gym!

So I’ve noticed that a lot of people who are wanting to eat clean and are trying to stay healthy and work out have the same problem: people offering them fried crap all the time.
Co-workers, friends, family, strangers on the bus, you name it, if you’re eating "clean" you’ve probably been offered SOMETHING by SOMEONE that is fried, dipped in chocolate, is made of fried chocolate, is covered in sugar, is made of fried chocolate sugar or potato chips.
So I’ve compiled a list of "common courtesies" for those of you who INSIST on asking if we who are attempting to eat “clean” would like some of your fried/chocolate/cheesy/sugared lard.
For the love of Pete, read them, memorize them, write them down and paste them to your forearm if you have to before you get pounded by a carb-cutting, fat-burner-taking, weight-lifting maniac who’s dehydrated and three days out from a body building contest because you thought you’d be “polite” by asking him/her if they would like some curly fries from Jack ‘n the Box.

1. Ask once. If the person refuses, BACK AWAY SLOWLY WITH YOUR OFFERING STILL IN HAND. After a good safe distance (I’d say about 10 feet) turn around and silently walk away.

2. If you choose to ignore rule number one, don’t ask, “Are you sure?”  If they weren’t sure when they said no the first time, then they’d probably be in the same sad shape that you’re in.

3.  If you’re idiotic enough to ask a third time, then you deserve to be back handed. Once is polite, twice is pushing the limit, three times, well, that’s just asking for an ass-whopping and you should probably question your motives as to why you’re such a masochist.

4. If you actually see the person you’re thinking of offering your crappy food to eating the following: plain tuna fish, chicken breast, or turkey breast with any combination of: fresh spinach, plain oatmeal, yams, brown rice, and/or broccoli, DON’T EVEN ASK. Just tell them how good their food looks and how good they look. They’ll appreciate the compliment to both and you’ve just saved up a brownie point with a person who’ll probably be who you go to for advice when you decide to get up off your couch-lovin’ arse and start living.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of things that will keep you from getting pummeled if you decide that you’re going to see how “the intense guy/girl who goes to the gym every day and eats nothing but tuna fish” will react to you asking them numerous times if they would like to have one of the cheesy-chili-death-dogs you got from the vendor outside your work place, but if you follow the gist of them, you’ll live a…well, not sure if I’d say longer or healthier life…let’s just stick to you’ll survive in peaceful co-existence.

I know that in my previous post I had writen that I am no fan of MuscleTech suppliments and that its tranformation challenge is out of the question for me. 

I am now considering giving their suppliments a shot and moving forward with thier challenge.  I am not 100% sure yet but I do not have much time to make an order and to go for it.  I have always felt that their prices and the type of advertising that has gone along with their suppliments hurts their credibility.  I know that there are many who do swear by their products but at the same time I know many that have not been happy with the results they recieved. 

Maybe it is time that I take them on and see what their suppliments can do for me during a short period of time combined with strict diet and training.  What do I have to lose????

I will make my decision one way of the other tomorrow evening..

Feel free to share your thoughts with me.

Okay,  I am over the "Biggest Loser" contest at my work and as many of you know I did not win the contest.

I believe I made the greatest transformation of all the competitors since I not only lost the most amount of wieght, but  also gained plently of lean body mass also.  (Take a look at the progress pics ).

 As many of you know my ultimate goal is to compete next year in Bill Grant’s Bodybuilding and Figure Classic.  So what was accomplished over the past 16 weeks has taken me to a new level in my fitness and now I am looking for a challenge to bring me to the next phase in my transformation. 

What I am would like to know is what would be a good transformation challenge to enter?  My goal is to lose bodyfat and to also gain lean body mass.  I hope this does not come back to bite me in the _SS but I am no fan of MuscleTech suppliments.(so that challenge is out of the question). 

With that being said, I would like to know of other 8-16 week tranformation contests out there as I am going to enter one within the next 2 weeks. 

 Thoughts and suggestions are would be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thanks in advance!

So I entered this contest that was being offered by my employer sometime towards the end of January, begining of February which they called, "The Biggest Loser". Hopefully the guys at the network which hosts the t.v. show with the same name won’t get wind of that and sue them. Anyway, it was a 4 month contest comprised of the employees of the company who wanted the benefit of losing weight AND winning some great prize. I thought, "Wow! What a great motivation to keep me in line with a goal that I wanted to achieve anyway! And there’s prizes!" So with the hardy approval of my wife, I swung into high gear. I cut out lasagna, I cut out soda, I cut out pizza and cheeseburgers, I cut out excessive carbs, I even cut out (when I had the will power) those late-night snack attacks of ice cream, cake or the 1/2 gallon bowls of Fruity Pebbles. I lifted thousands of pounds of weights, I ran hundreds of miles on a treadmill (sometimes in my own living room!), I SUFFERED through hours in the sauna and hot tub (and those were some GRUELING hours, let me tell you) all done with the prize on my horizon.

Well, to make a long story short…I didn’t win. DAMNIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The woman who won lost 39 pounds, for a total percentage lost of 19.2% I believe. I, on the other hand, lost 42.5 pounds, for a total percentage lost of 16.9%. AAARRRRGGGHHHH!!

So, I didn’t win the trip to Las Vegas. But I did win my health, the knowledge that there are people out there who understand and will support me during my times of struggle, and the opportunity to see about 35 people lose hundreds of pounds. All in all, it was a great victory! Sure, I’m not going to see half nekked women dancing in shiny costumes on stage or drive down "the strip" in a limo or be able to tell everyone that I went to "sin city" for free, but I have something way better than that…I have a family who loves me (even though there’s less of me), a great group of people who helped push me towards my goals in a great gym (Yay Thoerbeck’s!!!), Bill Grant who took the time out of his extremely busy schedule to give me pointers and of course, all of you who continued to reassure me that I COULD do it, no matter how many times I had to "slay the snack monster" at 2 A.M.

I AM VICTORIOUS!!!

Feel free to get up, raise your arms in the traditional Rocky Balboa stance and jump up and down to, "Eye of the Tiger" with me cause that’s how I feel right about now.

Just wanted to say a sincere and heartfelt, "Thanks" to all the service members who have or are helping to protect our freedom here in our country and in other lands around the world.