TPower81’s BodyBlog

I took a few days off from work and flew out to see my family this weekend in Portland.  I only get to see them about 3-4 times a year so I was pretty happy to be home.  The only problem is that most of my closest friends live there too, along with my GF’s family.  What ends up happening is I try and schedule time with everyone and there is always someone that gets the short end of the stick.  This time it happened to be my GF’s family as well as some of her friends that I’ve never met.  So she wasn’t very happy about that…

My Mom has been dieting strictly as well as me and man, I think she’s lost as much weight as I have!  She’s pretty tiny now and I worry she is too tiny and has bought into the whole, eat light, do lots of cardio thing that women get stuck in.  Not much muscle going on there.

The interesting thing is my mom is the fit one and my Dad could care less.  So my Mom was all about me, my new muscles and showing me off to people because she knows what discipline and dedication it takes to build a body.  My Dad on the other hand never really even mentioned he thought I looked good!  This put me off a bit, until hearing Sunday’s sermon. 

It was about parents and how they love their kids.  Parents should love without expectactions and it is up to the kids to understand this and not feel like they have to do this or that in order to earn the love of their parents.  In addition, we shouldn’t feel like we have to do this or that to make our parents proud of us.  So I took this to heart and realized that my Dad loves me completely no matter if I’m 200lbs 5% BF or 200lbs 20%BF and that I shouldn’t be expecting him to be extra proud of me just for what I’ve accomplished in the gym.

 So anyways, back to the daily routine that I’ve come to enjoy.  Good eating and exercise.  Time to build some effin muscle!