amysuds’s BodyBlog

One of the things I love most about this site is the openness to vent your frustrations. Well I need to do it. People that know me personally somehow always seem to piss me off and tell me I am HYPER. Why? Because I run around the block? Or maybe because I shovel snow instead of paying someone to plow?  I love to stay busy…why is this an issue for so many? I choose not to lounge aroung the BBQ on the weekend…there’s always work to be done. Does that make me strange? Maybe..but there is a method behind my madness. I run up the stairs everytime I get the laundry. I run to the bus stop like a bear is chasing me every day. I spread mulch as fast as I can. Why? People here look at me and have no idea that I am doing it on purpose. It’s easier to just say..oh you need to sit and relax a bit. What, so I can get fat? No way, no how. Through tons of studying, I have learned how to fight fat all day long. Just create an oxygen debt. Period. Meaning that it all is collective and counts toward cardio. It revs up my calorie burn without running on the treadmill for an hour. So now I feel better and I’m going to beat my time at the grocery store tomorrow and be outta there in a flash!

I have this question always running through my head. I wonder how many people have been successful at gaining muscle without doing a bulk peroid.My weight seems to be stuck at 135 and although I am increasing calories somewhat, I feel I should be gaining some. Currently I am taking in 150g of protein and 120 carbs. Anyone been successful with this?

I am happy to report I gained back the weight I lost recently. It sure doesn’t take long to do that! I have been eating a ton of peanut butter by the spoonfuls. So hopefully I can just maintain this or gain some more muscle weight!

Well I have been lifting heavy..8-10 rep sets now for a few months. As my friends here know, I was definitely showing the classic signs of overtraining. First off…I lost weight and lost my appetite. This of course turns into no energy and poor performance. But I am one of those stubborn people who continues to try. Next , I feel the old heavy legs feeling. Shame on me for getting to this point! I learned all about this in my personal training course! So the answer lies in rest..which I did. I took a few days completely off. Now it’s time to change up my program. So I will be spending the next two weeks circuit style whole body work. This will include hitting all the major muscle groups with more reps and medium weight. I have progressed with much more success the past year by constantly changing my routines. This also includes adding recreational sports into it for the fun and cardio of course. The body adapts to stresses placed upon it, so I need to plan out farther and get ready to keep it cycling!!

Yes, I am an alcoholic. It’s tough for me to write this…but it is a part of who and what I am. I guess it started when I found out I was to become a grandma. I was also trying to get my tubal ligation reversed at that time. I found out it cannot be done. So I have always been a social drinker no problems..other than I would get loaded when I did drink. Somehow, this horrible disease crept up on me. First 3 beers a day , then 5, then 8 and up to 24 a day. It’s very embarrasing! I tried to stop on my own, this had been going on for over a year at this point. I was at this party and we had a bombfire, I tripped when I was drunk and fell down a hill…almost face first into this pit. My husband was crying..he didn’t know what to do. So I decided to try to switch to drinking wine. I don’t really like it, but I figured I’d drink less. Nope..I drank bottles and bottles to get my fix. Alcohol makes some people tired, it made me so HYPER..I loved it! The more I drank, the more energy I had. It was crazy. Then..I became very depressed about myself. I turned to exercise…my true passion of life for help. I was a trainwreck with a bottle of beer in the cupholder on the treadmill. My blood pressure was 175/85. I was going to drink myself dead for sure. So I checked myself into rehab and met all kinds of people like me. It amazed me how many different types of people were there. Nurses, salesmen, bodybuilders..etc, hooked on pills, drugs, booze. I never had another drink since Dec 2006. Somehow the man upstairs saved me! I have even survived a Jimmy Buffett concert sober! That was a tough one. Yet everywhere I go, I seem to come across folks just like me …drowning their sorrows in the stuff. The point of this whole story is to let everone know how I turned my addiction to a positive version. The more I do, the better I am emotionally..I cannot let myself ever fall back into depression and that nightmare again. I now know that drinking just 1 drink impairs your body’s ability to burn fat for 24 hours!! I was doing all that work in vain for so long. I hope someone out there reads this and maybe there are people suffering or know someone who is. There’s so much more to bodybuilding than the muscle rewards…it may just save your soul!!