Jgenesis7’s BodyBlog

I have received a lot of questions in reference to Steve’s plan and how it is working for me. Before I purchased his plan, I also followed the progress of others using his plan. What I realized this past week is that his plan is excellent, especially for those looking to lose fat and build serious muscle. The most important thing for me has been Preparation. Steve is wonderful at answering all my crazy questions and giving me encouragement when I slipped up; but the responsibility of success is on me, period. It was hard eating cold chicken on the road a couple of times, but that is the commitment I have made to myself, my family, and all my Bodyspace friends who are rooting for my success in this. The key to the plan, as I see it, is planning and following the program as it is designed specifically towards your goals. So I am having alot of fun managing this crazy new system of eating and working out and loving every minute of it! This is just what I was looking for and can’t wait to start phase two!!

Wow!! I finally purchased the nutrition and exercise plan from Steve, who comes highly recommended on this site and I am sooo excited to finally have some direction in this journey. I went and did my workout this morning then went to the market to buy all the items on Steve’s food plan…..Its funny because since my life is soo busy, with five kids, a husband, a full time job and a three hour daily commute. I cooked and packaged all of my meals today. All of my food has totally consumed the fridge, poor kids…..your junk has got to clear out for my healthy stuff!! I am just shocked at how much work it took for me to cook, package, measure, season, seperate, etc. all the food to exact specifications…..and there are many almost all on this site that have been doing this for YEARS, I just hope it gets easier to get my food together from week to week…..

I haven’t posted in a while, but I have been hitting the gym HARD for a month straight. Thanks to pictures from my trip to Cozumel, I took one look at that FAT lady looking back at me and ran to the gym. I have been doing cardio 7 days a week, and two a days 4 times a week. I have been lifting 5 days a week, I try to stick with one to two body parts a day, I do Back/bi’s, Legs, Chest/tri’s, then a second day of legs with a focus on hamstrings, the fifth day I do some calves and cardio. I have had this dream of bodybuilding or having the "look" of a bodybuilder for so long that I am determined to make it happen; and the only way it will is by maintaining my focus and not giving up, EVER! My diet is really strict right now, I have six small meals and three are shakes, once a week I allow myself to have a lunch or dinner, whichever one I crave. My goal is to lose another 20 pounds, build some quality muscle and then go full clean eating and only have shakes once or twice a day if necessary. It is a very tough little game to get the mix right, but I have nothing but time to make it work!!

I needed to take a step back and refocus and really start to make clear what my goals are for 2009 in terms of my body. It took longer than I wanted but I really am focused, I have a great workout crew and I see the progress everyday. i have gotten the eating under control and I am writing everything down so I can assess my progress. Its not about getting on stage for me, but i really want to feel like I could get there if I wanted to…..So here we go! Time to build some muscle and lose that damn bodyfat!!

Food is sooo addictive!! Lord have mercy! I am slowly weaning myself off the EAT Everything diet into the eat to live and lose some weight diet, but the food calls me….whoa! I swear I think I’m a drug addict to food; its hilarious; we had to clean the house out of all the goodies so I don’t sneak to it at night!! I have to make sure I don’t get coffee at Dunkin Donuts cause How can I resist the Croissant! I commute sixty miles to work everyday, and try my best not to stop in a service station because I may have to pick up some munchies for the road……Don’t let me drive by a Mc Donald’s cause the smell of the fries may make me do a u-turn in the middle of the road……somebody stop me! They should make an intervention show for people like me……….It won’t have anything on the new biggest loser…..Oh my goodness, the people on the show were really saddening; I know that food is an addiction, I need to break the addiction for me and so I don’t pass it on to my kids……

Okay so I have been on meds for the past three months and my doctor told me that I should be prepared to stay on them until at least May, well with these meds you need to eat, hence my 30 pounds weight gain. Why? you may ask, because no matter how much I ate I still felt sick after taking the meds, I would have to eat a big meal to feel better. Well, through trials I figured out that Muscle Milk light would coat my stomach enough to help alleviate the sick feeling in the my stomach. So Last night I drank my shake and took my meds, I was fine until I decided to lay down to go to sleep; you know how you get that sick feeling in your stomach and your mouth waters; I knew I was going to throw up……I ran downstairs (yes, my bathroom is one floor down) and just threw up badly………I really hate this!! But I can’t live in this body one more second…so I cleaned myself up; feed myself some light turkey breast on whole wheat to coat my stomach and went to bed; this morning I went to a spinning class and decided not to give up!! This is TRULY TOUGH!! But I have to make the commitment to myself and my family to get my body where it needs to be, plus I finally want to feel good in my own skin!!!

If you are like me and have made it a goal to lose more than 40 pounds this year; lets band together and start a group here on Bodyspace, I’m not to sure how to use the new system but I think we can all provide support for eachother. We can share our diet, workouts and talk openly when we are ready to quit or on the verge of eating a snickers bar!! So lets give it a try –Join!

I have been hoping, wishing and praying that I could lose some weight and gain some great muscles…..it was at times very difficult going at it on my own, since my husband did not want to hear of anything that had to do with exercise or nutrition so last year I chose to ignore my entire family and lost over thirty pounds on my own, unfortunately I got extremely sick and was not allowed to exercise and had to take these horrible meds that made me sooo sick if I didn’t eat so needless to say I gain a lot of the weight back. I was all set to start my diet at the beginning of the year, when my hubby said that he was ready to lose some weight and we were going to do it together!! YES! I am beyond excited!! There is no stopping a duo in the quest to lose weight, the support we will provide eachother is going to be great! I’m so happy!! Visit his site and provide support if you can he is: Train72 on bodyspace.

I know I am among 8 million people who have decided to make a difference in their lives; lose weight "once and for all" and be in the best body of their lives in the next 12 weeks. I am actually proud to be a part of that crew, whatever works for each individual is on them. It used to irk me to go to the gym in January it was always sooo packed with newbies and by Valentines day they all gave up, what I didn’t realize was in that pack of newbies a small percentage stuck it out and actually realized their dream, I’m praying I will be among that small group….granted what stopped me last year was beyond my control (sickness). So here I am YET again, overweight and hoping that this year will be different. You know what? I’m happy to still have faith that this year CAN be different………..As long as my health permits, there won’t be any stopping me 2009 HERE WE ALL GO!!! Bodybuilding.com Memebers lets do the damn thing in 2009!!!

Hey All!!

I haven’t been around lately because in my very very excited and ambitious pursuit of my dream (stepping on the stage; getting my certification; starting my business) I injured myself and the doc told me I can’t even look at a gym until I heal which can take upto three months, my beautiful coach NPC National Competitor Amanda Genao said I’m not even allowed to go through these sites like I used to. Yes, I know this all makes me want to defy docs order and just do some small amount of cardio and some light weights….but I’m taking my time to get better and I went back on my diet hoping to lose 20 pounds and some bodyfat prior to getting back in the gym. I’ve been training my teenage stepkids and my little ones, which I have been getting such a kick out of. They tell me for a week how much pain they are in but they love it just like me.

The gym was MY time to do what I love. I work, commute over three hours a day, take care of five children;a husband; a big ole house that needs contant cleaning. The ONE thing I had just for me is the one thing I had to give up; this is very, very difficult, but I’m taking it one day at a time knowing that before the year is up I get to have the privledge of waking up at 4am and doing what I love best with great people every morning before the sun is even up!!