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We finally have a house in CA. As of next week, we will officially be California residents! Thankfully, the hard part is over. Now we’ll be moving into a real house and out of a hotel  My workouts have slowed to using my body weight and I’m going through iron withdrawal. Lifting is truly an addiction. Over these last few days I feel myself wittling away to a bean sprout. I can’t wait until we have our feet planted firmly in our new home and I can toss some iron around again! Sanity…here I come.

 Peace,

-Ali

This is my first sick day in quite some time and I definitely feel terrible! I’m craving carbs but I also do not want to deny what my body what it needs to get better. So I figured I would whine about it j/k!

Yesterday, my daughter (13m)had a pretty bad meeting with the coffee table. I took her to the hospital and the PA told me that I looked worse than she did but I’m glad that she is all right. She has a swollen lip and a puffy eye but she’s good; back to her normal self today! My son (5y)won’t let her leave his sight now that she hurt herself. He didn’t want to go to school this morning.

I must admit that sarcasm is definitely not a good quality when posting on this site. Things can be taken in the absolute WRONG WAY! Lesson learned for me I do not have the aspiration to be an a$$hole and that is never my intention. However, as an research student I like to push on some extremes and see what comes of them. Force of habit I guess.

I am truly bored with nothing to do. Being home makes me appreciate the time I have with the kids however, it does not make me appreciate cable tv. There is nothing good on tv…hopefully something good will come on in the next few hours and take me away from this agonising waste of blog space

It’s been 3 months since my hernia surgery and I feel great. I still experience some pain when I engage my core but it’s definitely bearable. I just try not to over do it. I know that it may take up to a year for all of this scar tissue to go down but looking around me, at the gym, I feel like I am ahead of the game. I have plenty of body fat to lose and even more mass to gain. My belly has been through so much over these last few months and I’m proud to say that I’m finally beginning to like what I see. At my last appt, the doc told me that the chances of me being able to compete this year were slim. Looking in the mirror, I see a great deal of improvement (I refuse to post my post-prego–LOL ). Doc’s can’t predict where hard work will get you…I know that he has to cover his a$$ but wow, I think he’ll be impressed Monday. It’s hard to sit on your hind parts for 8 weeks and be told that you will not be able to get back into the game that you love. I’m here and I want to stay! I am going to get better, I will be better, I will be stronger, I am stronger!

So my husband thought that it would be a good idea for me to take some progress pics in my suit. Well it was definitely an experience. I didn’t even feel comfortable in my own skin. However, it also highlighted the best parts of my progress and where I clearly need more work, everywhere.  My quads are on their way, so are my shoulders and back. I found that since I carry my daughter on my left side that I need to switch to the right since I have one huge trap and the other is lacking a great deal! My glutes are hanginng on for dear life but they have come a long way. I no longer have the urge to slim down sooner than I should, I miss my flat tummy. I want to continue to build muscle, even if I can no longer see much definition. ((Be patient))) it will come…Maybe his idea wasn’t a bad one after all. 6 months sitting on my hind parts waiting for surgery and 8 weeks of recoup and I’ve only put in 2 months at the gym. Who would have thought that these scars would make me feel so grand! I’m not completely healed up yet but I’m making leaps and bounds…Off to go lift! 

It’s hard to believe that I have made such progress in so little time. I’m woking hard and I believe that my pictures show that. Even while nursing this injury I feel great, I feel stronger and more energized. I’m just proud of myself. I would however, like to recieve a good productive critique on where I am. (I posted some new pics) *eee, mind the mess*

I’ve based my training on my old workouts and diet as a track athlete. I’ve always been the slender athletic type and learning how to gain mass and fill out a nice suit is quite the challenge. I have faith that my shape will come I just don’t want it to be in the opposite direction. It feels good to feel strong and it’s motivating to BE STRONG!  

Well, I began this quest a few months ago. Then, soon after I was diagnosed with a ventral hernia. I thought that hernias were caused from obesity or from straining. Well…I stand corrected. Mine was from my children. I didn’t get too large during my pregnancies however, my belly grew exponentially. It was odd. People thought that I was delivering twins and with my second I was even larger. So that is how I acquired my hernia I have had to stay away from the gym for the last few months. I now also have a 10 inch scar down my midline and I’m also missing a bellybutton. It’s quite odd that I no longer have a bellybutton. It’s even worse when I go to the gym to be measured and the trainers look at me with an odd kind of look. I’m slowly beginning to see my belly as a blessing, after all it could have been so much worse. I guess with this being my first blog, I’m looking for someone who can relate. This is definately a unique plight  

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