Zenea’s BodyBlog

Well, hello there, everybody!  I am so excited to become a part of this community!  A community of like-minded people in the fitness/bodybuilder/figure/weight lifting/workout world!!!  It is hard to find people like us out there!   I have so enjoyed reading other people’s blogs, that I thought I would try my hand at starting my own! Well, let’s see… First of all, things are going really well on the body transformation front!  I have lost at least 39 pounds, now, since April 1st.  I am very excited about that!  I went from a size 14 and am now down to a size 4!  So that is VERY exciting!  Unfortunately, I did lose ALOT of muscle in the process!  I was focused on losing the weight, first, so it wasn’t my focus to maintain my muscle as much, and it shows.  :  (   But now I am working slowly at building muscle back.  It sucks to go from lifting decent weight back down to puny weight, but that is always the process, anyways, so now I am going back up!  So that is good.  I guess I will work on perfecting my form, more, while I am at it, to maybe build an even stronger base than before.  That would be cool! I have hired a personal trainer, Amanda Price, to assist me in buffing up.  She gives me KILLER routines once a week.  Those have significantly improved my core strength and I am very excited about that! She has all of the up-to-date workout moves and it is cool to finally be learning how to do those moves I see other doing or read about in magazines.  I have done old-fashioned weight lifting for 12 years, so I guess it is time to come up to date! I am kind of sad that I didn’t bust out my wallet more over the years, and hire a personal trainer more often.  I am afraid my do-it-on-my-own approach sacrificed what could have been much better body transforming success along the years!  Oh well.  Better late than never! For all of you other people out there with eating disorder issues, I, too, have an eating disorder.  I am a compulsive overeater and a sugar/carb addict.  Five years ago, I started a food plan and successfully lost 35 lbs.  I maintained that loss by sticking to my food plan for 2 more years, measuring and weighing, and my continued ban of eating sugar that was a 10 year time period.  However, my terribly dysfunctional relationship got the best of me and due to the complete and utter lack of nurturing in it, I turned once again back to food for nurturing.  And then I couldn’t stop eating!  It was HORRIBLE for the last 3 years.  I could not control my food consumption and I had started eating sugar again and could not control that, either!  The weight came back on.  I was desperate to stop overeating and stop eating sugar but it wasn’t until this last April 1st that I finally was able to achieve and stick to an abstinence date from compulsive overeating and sugar.  I took the month of April to get back to my former healthy way of eating, no sugar, and then back to my old food plan!  And so that has been just AWESOME and I feel WONDERFUL! So, that is cool.  Which brings me to my current pet peeve that someone else had blogged about, when people push food, tell me I can stop weighing and measuring my food, now, try to get me to eat sugar, or tell me not to lose anymore weight!  That is often, now!  They do not understand what i am trying to achieve, body wise!  So it is awesome that you guys DO understand that and I am a part of a worldwide community of people for whom this is all a lifestyle FOREVER and that is that! And so, I am eating really well, sticking to my food plan, not eating sugar or bread/rice/pasta (which is probably why I have lost so much muscle), and I have amped up my workouts these last many months and am jamming!  So all is well over here!  Wish me luck in buffing up!!!