backto125’s BodyBlog

Going to spend more time working out, less time on bodyspace. I’m letting myself use it to keep my arse rooted to the couch too much. I am going to stop keeping up with everyone for about a month so I can keep up with myself better. I have really enjoyed checking in on my friends and I will look forward to checking back with all of you to see how you are doing the beginning of September. I hope all of my friends, and everyone else here, have a great rest of July and month of August getting closer to your goals! "Talk" to you soon!

Best to you!

If any of my friends have been checking in on me and notices I haven’t been very active, it’s because diet/workouts are sucking right now. Lots going on…not going to bore w/the details. Regardless, I am going to get back to things on Sunday July 19. I’m going to stop stressing about it and just get through these remaining 2 days. Anyway…I hope all of you are great and I will back to checking in on you all next week!

Best to you!

Well, good on one hand but bad for all of the other body parts I have.

I’m sure few know, but I started catering the beginning of the year. Nothing big since I do it out of my home and I am the one who does everything. Anyway, I got the largest job to date, 45 people, to be delivered on the 3rd. Needless to say I worked SOOOO hard for 4 days. She wanted 3 different gourmet sandwiches I make, 4 appetizers, and 6 different desserts. I was either constantly cooking, doing nails (I still have nail clients that come to my home even though I "retired" from that after my daughter was born), or taking care of my sweet girl. Unfortunately my diet took a serious dive and I truely had zero energy, or even time for that matter, to work out. except for Monday and Tuesday. I was tasting so much stuff I was cooking, that is absolutely not on the diet, and then that led to eating anything I could get my hands on that was quick and easy.

I was supposed to do progress pics, an official weigh in, and measurements on Friday or Saturday for the grand total for the last 2 months, but I decided against it. I put on weight INCREDIBLY easy and I know how discouraged I would be if I knew the damage that was done. So…I decided to put it off for a week and I will do them after I get through this week. Then I will just do a 3 week progress for this month. I know mentally this will be the best thing for me to do.

I told my husband that when I get to the point that I am doing a contest prep diet that I would not be able to take ANY catering jobs for that time period. There is just no way I can put food out that someone has paid me for and not taste it to know if it is up to my standards. So that will be off limits when the time comes.

I am really looking forward to getting things moving in the right direction again and not physically feeling the way I do now. I can really feel the water retention the last few days. I start working out again today. I decided to take yesterday off because my feet and legs were so swolen, and my feet and back were so pissed at me.

So, good week for making the $$$, but awful for the goals for the bod and future plans! No wallowing, though. Here is to a good week ahead!

I hope everyone has had a great holiday weekend!!!

So I went to see my first competition yesterday so I could see what I would one day be experiencing. It was a lot of fun! I went to both the pre-judging and then of course the finals that evening. It was a small show, The NGA Music City Night of Champions, but I will of course be starting w/small ones to get my feet wet. I met a man in the pre-judging whose wife was competing as well as her trainer and his wife ended up winning her class and the overall novice figure and since it was a pro qualifier she got her pro card! Pretty cool! Her trainer also won the pro figure class. I saw, for the first time, a pro bodybuilder named Cleveland Jackson (damn impressive) who won the pro bodybuilding division, and a guest last night was pro bodybuilder Flex Lewis. He says he now lives here in Tennessee, which is pretty neat. Anyway…really glad I went and I can’t wait to get my body in the kind of condition to be able to figure compete!

I will be starting to do only monthly weigh-ins as of this coming month, so I won’t be posting my weight loss today (Sunday) like I usually do. I will post it on July 3 and then the 3rd of every month. I think it will help me to not have to battle those moments of being discouraged if I am not losing as fast as I think, or want, to be losing weight. I am really trying to be very patient with my body since I know I have f***ed up my metabolism after years of yo-yo dietng and also since I am doing so much strength training.

OK…I hope everyone who reads this has had a great weekend, and here is to a successful week ahead of training and diet for all of us!!

OH! My diet and training over the last week was FABU!!

So…I decided I am going to see what kind of results I can get in over the next 10 weeks if I work out crazy hard and keep the diet supreme. My motivation…Someone I will see in about 10 weeks who has been smaller than me for several years. I know she takes great pleasure in this as she has made comments about being smaller than others in her life and we no longer get along. She is no swimsuit model, but don’t try to convince her of that. So I figure if I can bust it out between now and then and my body reacts favorably, I may be able to put it back in her face a bit! I know it’s silly but if it helps w/increased motivation why not go with it?

OK…I am going to go and check myself in the mirror…I think I just felt horns sprouting!! 

I am sooo excited about being so close to leaving the 200’s! I lost 3 more lbs this past week which puts me at 207. So 8 lbs to 199! I am REALLY going to try to get there by July 5, but I will be just as happy w/July 12. I did good working out again last week, but I am still falling short of doing at least 4 HIIT sessions a week. I did 3 last week. If I am going to lose 8 lbs in 2 weeks, I am definitely going to have to at least double the cardio and my diet will have to continue to be stellar!

I watched the Universe competition on the web this weekend. I would really like to be there on stage next June. That is the show I am going to shoot for since I know they have a novice category (there is one in 5 months I would like to do, but it is probably WAY too soon to get even at a minimum conditioning and appearance to be next to the ladies I would be standing with), plus I LOVE Miami. A year should be enough time to be ready, especially since I have a history of being able to put on muscle very easily. As long as I can keep tweaking my diet to shed fat, I’ll make it! I guess we’ll see how I progress ove the months to come!

I have always weighed myself several times a day…I know, really stupid. So I decided to only weigh myself once a week starting this week and it’s DRIVING ME NUTS!!! I have SUCH a hard time not knowing if I am losing weight, but at the same time I am not fighting the discouragement that would set in w/normal weight fluctuations. It’s so weird to be so attached to something so silly. Once I reach my goal weight, I intend on getting rid of it all together and judging my progress visually and through how things are fitting. I am really looking forward to that day…I might have to have some kind of ceremony. Maybe I’ll send it out on a not-so-seaworthy vessel on our pond…or maybe some pyrotechnics will be in order. I have about 5 or 6 months to decide.

This is day 1 of my new week and just wanted to report I had an extremely positive week of progress! Ate clean all week with NO cheats ANYWHERE and also did my carb cycling, which seems to be a good fit for me. I lost 5 lbs (after gaining 2 back the week before due to the "battle of the food demons" week, so that leaves a 3lb total loss from where I SHOULD of started the week) and worked out hard 6 out of 7 days doing my P90X and HIIT cardio. I did want to get more HIIT training in (only did 2), but that will be what I build on for this week!

My head’s REALLY  "on right" and I am sill feeling high motivation and focus, so it’s all good here! I am really looking forward to this week and MORE PROGRESS!!!

Did HIIT cardio this morning, about to do my strength training, and my diet has been flawless since Sunday. In addition to eating clean, I have been carb cycling and my body is responding VERY well. I hope it keeps the pace for a while. I have so far to go that it would be nice to get quite a bit off quickly.

Just feeling great today! Very inspired/positive/focused/and determined. ‘Nuf said!!!!!