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I have decided I REALLY  want to attend the Arnold Classic in March 2010! As it looks right now I am I will be flying solo since my friends just are not into this lifestyle.. Just wondering if anyone out there is planning on attending next year????

Although I am just not ready to discuss who or what hurt me so deeply yesterday I am read to write here.. Deff hurting.. wanting to do anything for distraction, or to kill it. (binge drink anyone?) BUT not this time. I am going to use all of this in my workouts…today I lifted chest and back and blew it out of the water.. jumped weights by a 10lb increase.. benched 60 without a spotter today (for me thats pretty good)…

It just goes to show you never ever give it up. Don’t give in and let any situation take your sucess!!!

In 2002 when I wanted to loose weight, I did a lot of things wrong but one thing I figured out was that cutting out refined carbs and grains made my body drop excess weight the fastest. After being re-inspired by a fellow bodyspace member I have decided that while I am incredibly impressed at how my body performs and I am in damn great shape I want just a little better (its that damn perfectionist in me).

For 2 days going on 3 all of my carbohydrate sources have come from fruits or veggies.. I am lean proteins and healthy fats such as avocados, raw almonds and natural peanut butter (in the right portions of course). I am also guzzling water like I haven’t drank in days and avoiding salty foods.

My plan is to stay on the no refined carbs m-f for another 2 weeks or sooner depending upon how fast I can get the look I desire (my body responds well and very fast when I cut out carbs)… the weekends: Sat I will allow myself grains at each meal in the right portion sizes of course and on Sun I will allow it in 3 of my 6 meals as well as make one of those meals my "cheat" meal.

This is going to take a whole lot of determination and willpower since I don’t have anyone who surrounds me who lives or understands this lifestyle.. wish me luck..here we go!!!!

For the past 6 weeks I have pushed and pushed and pushed myself.. much to my surprise  I did not give up and did not keep up.. I even made it past and injury and some junk food. My workouts have gone from standard to out of the box with each one improving my endurance, balance, strength and so on.. I am pretty impressed..

I have decided to take this to another level and while the rest of America is gaining their winter weight I will be tightening it all up even more. Have a photo shoot this Thursday and another in 4 weeks.. I’ll post pics in a month to see the difference..

Keep on training and break though the traditional!

So, I could go right on to blame the junk eating on my dad being in town and it being his bday or that i am depressed therefore I eat but who the heck knows the true logic between it!!! it seems every time i get hurt and cant train i just eat whatever in whatever amounts.. ridiculous!!

So, I have been kicking it up with 45 min cardio a day right now, and the other day I woke up to my left thigh completely swollen.. hurts to put pressure on or to touch.. I talked to a doc friend.. and have been given instructions to rest and ice it.. The swelling is down now, still hurts a bit but I just dont do rest very well my friends!!!!! I am dying to get back in there and train and fighting the urge to eat the junk around me.. some moral support please?!?!

Today I am 8 days until my b-day (goal day) but this past week has been super stressful and quite time constrained.. I am literally getting off work at 1 am.. up at 6:30 and at class by 8 am.. lame lame lame.. get out of class and do it all again.. I have napped 2 out of the 5 days this week but its really cutting into my time to meal plan and train.. I think I am going to have to get creative.. I have some time this morning and I am going to finally make it to the grocery store (this was tuesdays desire hahaha) and do some meal prep.. today I can get in about an hour and a half of training so I am going for full body circuit (plyo, bodyweight (pushups ect)) followed by some cardio.. I am noticing cardio helps me study better anyway so I might as well do it right?

This week I am cranking down the calories and cranking up the workout intensity..
There is the update… stay tuned!

Alright..today I am 15 days out… I am seeing some major differences in my muscle tone up top (thank you 100 varieties of push-ups) and am watching my lower half slim it down a bit.. All in all I am pretty damn happy with the progress I am making and am going to keep raising the bar even beyond my birthday! Here is my training split:

Sunday: Hot Yoga (active rest)

Monday: Full body bootcamp style circuit (light or bodyweight resistance and done at a fast pace) - 20-45 min low impact cardio depending on time..

Tuesday: Super ab workout, 45-60 min cardio (either sets of HIIT or climbing levels on the eliptical)

Wednesday: Upper body heavy weights, 20-45 min low impact cardio

Thursday: Lower body heavy weights, 20 min low impact cardio or 60 min non-heated yoga

Friday: Cardio + Abs

Saturday: Full body circuit + 1 outdoor cardio activity..such as hiking : ) my fav

Diet wise- balancing clean lean meats or low fat dairy, with whole grain or veggie/fruit carbs and 1 serv healthy fat every meal.. eating 5-6 meals per day and have cut eating grains within 4 hours of bedtime.. eliminated cheat meal at this point.. if I want chocolate I eat homemade choc sugar free protein pudding.. something crunchy.. homemade baked pita chips with hummus..

Houston we are making progress.. : )

Yes, I have been somewhat MIA from bodyspace for the past month or so but its not to say I haven’t been training and eating a squeaky clean diet (well, with the exception of my 1 cheat meal a week..typically in the form of rich chocolate haha)..

I am 4 weeks out from my 27th birthday, which a little background.. where most people use the marker of Jan 1 to begin or reach new goals, I use my birthdays. Every year since I began training I have set goals for myself to be better than the year before.. sometimes setting weight goals, or size goals, sometimes bodyfat percentage.. well, this year it really was to build up my endurance and to try new things in fitness and really diversify myself… as well as of course looking amazing (what woman doesn’t want that?!?)…

The past month I have spent dragging my hiney through 2+ mile runs (doesn’t seem like a lot but when you aren’t a runner its hell), amusing myself via people watching from the upstairs cardio machines, and then breaking into new stuff..

So.. I revisited my path to hot yoga.. picked that back up.. remembered I loved it and wondered why I ever stopped (thats right bc I moved to colorado..hmmm), I put on boxing gloves for the first time and literally felt absolutly powerful one minute and out of breath, panting thinking I could just die right then and there about 45 min later, I have been circuit training, doing push-ups and pull-ups, walking up sets of 400 stairs and back down and back up.. let me tell you the whole new things is not comfortable and deff not for the weak hearted or less than strong willed!

Well.. I am getting there and I think so long as I can just keep pushing myself for the next month  I may just meet the standards I set out for.. keep on cheering.. lord knows I will need it!

Well, after weighing in yesterday and the scale actually upping a pound I decided to take diet measures. Although with my intensity in training I am visually seeing my more muscle I am not seeing the fat go as fast as I would like. Yes, I do know muscle weighs entirely more than fat- which is why I have never pursued being 110 lbs (sorry it just doesn’t look fabulous on me). I have opted to run conversions on myself to determine what level of calories I can intake so decrease fat while still having energy to function.

The number… 1390 cals per day! Ugg…it leaves little wiggle room BUT it may be the tough love I need.  Breaking that down.. I am looking at 278 cals per meal if I run with 5 meals a day or  231 spread over 6 meals.