tewie-building

played around a bit on fitday and here’s what i came up with for my first four weeks of cutting for jr. nationals… TOTALLY OPEN TO ADVICE….

5am- egg whites, potato, hot peppers (omelette style)  sf katcup
…i can’t workout on an empty stomach
        6-7:30 hour of cardio and half hour weights
7:30- face fat free plain yogurt, strawberries, glutamine, flax seed (1/2 scoop whey on lifting days)
10am- gf hot cereal (similar to oatmeal… for celiac diet) egg whites, flax seed, sf jelly
12:30- brown rice, salmon (or another fish) broccoli 
3pm- apple (or whatever fruit) almonds
5:30ish- grilled chicken breast on large salad (salsa for dressing)
8ish- egg beaters, spinach, onion, broccoli, sf katcup       
+ supplements (viactin calcium chew, multi, cla, b) total calories is 1600 about 40%carb, 40%pro, and 20% fat.

open to thoughts (i’m super torn on fruit and milk so i figured i’d cut that and the yogurt closer to time and replace my post workout with a soyshake or something?? i always hear no fruit/milk products for comp diet, but i see an awful lot of fabulous bodies eating both on here…. ) as for the carb percentage, i don’t know what to do about that.. my energy totally DIES if i go lower than fourty five, and that’s fine four weeks out from a show, but not 12 weeks out… phase it down?  or is that low enough carbs… i really hate to lose a good workout so far out on account of how tired that makes me… i’m stretching to be starting at 40 i think… but……

so this morning, i get up and go to the gym.  i’m on the eliptical thinking how i’d like to die more than i’d like to be on that effing thing.  (this is rare… i am one of those weirdos that LIKES to workout!) but i was.. well… i was hungry!  so i decided to tan for fifteen minutes and try to get myself in the mood.  i ran into my mom on the way in and she mentioned that she could see my shoulders looking a little bonier.  NOOOOOOOOOO… granted this is the first place that will show my weight changes before anything else has even thought of tightening up, so i was glad to hear that my small (prep for contest diet… easing in) changes were showing even if only just a LITTLE BIT… i laughed and said, "i can fix that… got any peanut butter?"  needless to say after a long friday at work followed by grocery shopping, i ate me some peanut butter.  i now feel like absolute CRAP.  (oh no it was natural peanut butter but i just think it’s not normal to be able to eat the way i do sometimes haha)  anyway… so now i’m definately not going to be enjoying festivities sunday night.  probably best because i agreed to train a friend at seven in the morning!!!  (YES… A REASON!!!!!)  anyway for now i feel like i’ve got a brick in my stomach and i’m going to bed.  thirteen weeks.  i’m anxious for 12 weeks… something about that really helps me focus.  i guess it’s knowing that there’s no omre time to dick around.  just wish i could desipher all the ****ing diet controversy out there.  frankly, i can’t seem to kick with those low carbs.  i’m ganna try going 1600ish calories and keep my carbs high (like 45 percent maybe) and SLOWLY (every two weeks or so) decrease the carbs, up the protein untill closer to time… then i’ll cut the cals a little and then continue to phase out some carbs untill the show.  that’s my theory.  open to advice.  i just can’t get good workouts if i don’t have the energy.  it’s like not eating any carbs before bed has me so depleated just waking up that i can’t get through my cardio!  i also read that you need carbs before bed since sleep is when your muscles really heal (makes sence) but is opposite of what i seem to read most of the competitors i like are doing… i don’t know how my body reacts to anything these days, so for now i feel like it’s guess and check.  next week i’ll start cut and try and get photos rolling.  i’m going to baltimore to see the bodyworks museum and i’m JACKED about it.  jeremy and i are going to celebrate the engagement there, so i’ll definately have a few drinks and enjoy my last day before competition diet.  when we get back there are a lot of wedding reception sites we are trying to get in with, so it’ll be a busy day.  i’ll be okay on diet, but probably won’t get to work out, but i’ll live.  it’s VERY rare that i actually miss a day without squeesing SOMETHING in….

up for diet advice!!!

given the weeks EXCITING news (yes i’m still BEAMING with excitement over the engagement!… but who can blame me, right!!!)  however i admit to complete distraction.  not a common thing for me, but (at least in my case) a girl only gets married once! 

weeks regrets: didn’t stay in my calorie guide most days; workouts were pretty pathetic; unfocused! 
weeks success:  stayed over 90% clean with food choices; no chocolate/processed foods; did workout daily; refiguring on meal plan…

being 14 weeks out now, i have two weeks to totally get my butt together, but i really just want to be in a place that i can take a pic for twelve week out without wanting to crawl under a rock and die!  jeremy and i are taking a trip to baltimore to celebrate the engagement that weekend.  i’m ganna take that one day off of hardcore dieting and have  a few drinks with him, and then BALLS TO THE WALLS for 12 HARDCORE WEEKS! 

so as usual… if ANYONE OUT THERE reads these things and has any suggestions… I’M OPEN!

competition diet starts monday for me… it really is my end goal to just eat clean regularly.  i feel like i get better and better at it… so i’m on my way!  i’m a little bit confused about the fruit and milk debate.  i feel like i have a really good grip on nutrition and exercise, but i really want to handle this competition a little bit differently than my past competition, so i’m opening myself up to some new ideas/theories. 

i had previously always learned that fruit and dairy products are big no no’s in the world of competition, but lately a lot of the diet’s i’ve seen on some of the people who’s figures are in line with what i’m capable of (structure wise) have a little bit of fruit and dairy.  the other thing i’m very torn on right now is the workout split.  for a long time now i’ve been doing a three day split followed by a two day.  (mon-legs;tues-chest tris shoulders; wed-back bis; thurs-legs, fri- chest back shoulders; saturday/sunday just cardio)  some of the routines i’ve been seeing (again on the figure shapes i like that i could manage) only do each body part once a week on a three or four day split.  I’M SO TORN ON WHAT TO FOLLOW…. since it’s been four years since i did this, i feel like i’m learning all over again with a new bodytype!

any advice!!!?!!! i’m totally open to ideas, thoughts, theories!

so given my "click" i spent some time thinking (and i mean really thinking about it) and i’ve decided to compete again.  for a while i thought i’d probably wait until i was older and had kids to do it again, but sometime in there i got a little older!  i realized who knows when kids will come, and that if i don’t dip my foot in and give it a good solid go every once in a while, i’ll lose sight of it.  i get the itch everytime this year it seems like, but usually a good cold alcoholic beverage can snap me back to reality and i don’t want to give up the drinks for the summer. 

this year, drinks didn’t scratch my itch. 

instead, it got worse!!! so i had a really nice talk with my boyfriend, and decided… I’M IN!  so last weekend would have been 16 weeks out.  in the past, i dieted twelve weeks. i did tend to get too thin, so i’m thinking i’m going to try things a little bit differently this time.  i’m going to go for fifteen weeks, but i think i’m thinking try dieting longer on higher calories because i do NOT want to be scrawny.  i’m older now so i expect to have some muscle when i go out there this time!  i’m not afraid of good fats anymore, and that has really increased my muscle in the recent past, so i think it will work… input?

that said, i’m going to enjoy mothers day with my family without worries, and start monday.  this whole week i’ve been really good with my diet, and the only reason i don’t want to worry about it before monday is because i’m only 123 right now.  i don’t want to go into this starting 120 pounds!!  i’ll take my first pics at 12 weeks.  (i have some current for me, but i don’t really want to share them until closer to the end! or at least when i can see some changes between the two pics that will show some progress!! …when i don’t have to protect my pride so hard! haha) 

i am gluten intollerent so my carb sources are limited.  i expect a lot of rice and chicken in my future! 

as i post and move forward, i welcome tips and advice!