LongBeachJ’s BodyBlog

Since the real estate market has been slow I decided to get a 3rd job. My fiance is gonna be going to med school next year and we need to save more money. I work at Whole Foods now. Its great because it has a lot of healthy food and I get a 20% discount, 401k, Paid Vacation, etc. The only problem, My shifts start at 4am!!! That means I have to be up at 3am! Its really hard because when I get home at 1pm i’m so drained. Not very much energy and I want to sleep. I also work at a restraunt but oly 2 days a week now. The days I work both jobs it is really hard to get to the gym because I have 3 hrs between jobs. When I get off the restraunt its almost 10pm and I have to be up at 3am. So I get no rest and rest is so important when I train. So those 2 days i haven’t been working out. The other days I have time but my energy is depleted. I took a week off of training last week because I was so exhausted. I started up again this week and actually felt a little stronger. I think training 7 weeks really hard plus working was killing me. I had a good workout today and will keep it up but things have gotten even tougher. No sacrafice, no victory.

Since I started really putting in time and effort about 7 weeks ago I have seen a lot of changes. I’m way stonger and leaner. My BF % went up while i was putting on some size and then I got sick for like 3 days and it went up to 19%! 19%! Horrible…but i’ve battled back and in 3 weeks brought it down to 15%. Right now the goal is 10% and I want to get my abs showing. I have a line in the middle near the top and i’m starting to develope definition in my lower obliques but I still have a little tire down there. I don’t cheat on my diet and I’m working hard so success will come. I’m going to put up a new photo and edit my stats today a little later. I hope everyone is working as hard as I am to achieve exactly what they want.

I have been training really hard for 5 weeks and am in my 6th week right now. I have been having an egg and 3 eggwhites with whole wheat toat every morning and I can’t take it anymore. Plain toast sucks too. It just isn’t something I look forward to at all when I get up in the morning. If anyone has any suggestions for something else I can eat in the morning please let me know. On a positive note my training is going real good. I developed a play list for my Ipod that fuels my workout and makes me push it harder than ever. My body is definately starting to allow me to push it which is a great feeling. Right now abs and chest are the things I want to see the most progress on. I’ll take some new photos today if I have time. Progress pics really do help me be motivated.  Good luck with training everybody.