Zenea’s BodyBlog

I stopped in at a little gym, here, yesterday, where they help people get ready for competitions.  I got the assessment of the owner (I think), who is also a trainer.  That was very helpful!  I have long wanted someone to take a look at my new body and let me know if I would be competition material, at all!  I even got into my bikini so that he could see the whole deal.  It was cool, but he said I would need to lose like 20 more lbs for a competition!!!!  I cannot imagine that!  I now weigh 129, and I would never get down to a weight like that!  I could see losing 10 more lbs…..  So that was a disappointing shocker.  But it sounds like his training and help is very cool, a whole package with food planning, training and posing and all!  So I will have to think about that.  Maybe to start with training and nutrition and see where that takes me… after I do more training with my current trainer.

My top half of my body is lean, but the fat still rests on my butt/hips/legs which is very stubborn.  I am not sure it would ever come off unless I get down that low, which I do not want to be that low in weight at all.  But I will keep working on it.  It is helpful to know that perhaps transforming my body in the first phase might take a year, which I learned from a bodybuilding.com forum or a figureathlete.com forum, where someone said it took them 2 years for the fat loss and then another year to build up…. That was an ah ha moment for me!  I just planned to lose weight as quickly as possible and be done with it in a matter of a few months!!!!!  That was my plan!  But it is not working out that way.  I lost too much muscle, I still have fat loss to go, and I want to build back up, too, as well as transform some things. So, I am ok with a long-term plan.  I am in no hurry!

 That is the nice thing about getting older.  I don’t freak out as much about the whole weight thing anymore!!!!!  Yay!  Or instant fix!

I would like to hear other people’s stories about how long their fat loss and building up took for them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I would like to know how other people have done it and also that I am not alone!!!!

 Thanks!