benjamminb6’s BodyBlog

Ok, so I havent’ updated in a bit because I have had tons of crap going on, so I will make this quick.  I have still been lifting and doing cardio, but in the past 18 days, I have probably only gotten to go 5 or 6 times.  I was VERY badly sunburned, my legs and back were purple, so that kept me sidelined, and I have been VERY sick this week for 3 days.  I have continued to eat fairly clean, but cheated a little, but my weight is down some more to about 222.  I also spent a few days in San Diego helping Brandon.  Brandon is my brother, and he just bought an amazing and huge new house, so I was helping him move and do all sorts of crap.  The house is brand new, it was just finished being built the day before he started moving in, so its really nice.  He and his wife are now actively trying to make babies to fill up the 4 extra bedrooms.  My workouts have been very good when I have gone, and my cardio has been outstanding.  If I hadnt gotten sunburned or sick, I may already have my June 1st abs goals accomplished, but as it is I can see a 4 pack and I have lost 28 pounds and 6 inches off of my waist since January 1st, so that’s pretty damn good.

I noticed that Heather has checked out my page twice this week, so if you read this Lumps, I miss you and I hope you are ok.  I have emailed and texted you, but got no response, and not even a happy birthday on the 18th!!!!   So I was worried that you were in trouble or got murdered or something, so I hope all is well and you are safe and healthy.  I love you.

I am planning on running a marathon this year…..FINALLY!!!  I am not going to let anything hold me back, and no excuses this time, so I need some better shoes, and I need to plan for which marathon so I can start training.  But my goal is to do one before my 29th bday, so I have all year to plan and train, and can do the Las Vegas in December or the Los Angeles in March or whatever I decide depending on how my training goes.

I am still extremely sick, so I am going to cheat and eat delicious In N Out tonight while I watch basketball, but in a few days when I am better, I am back on a mission to have a chiseled 6 pack by June 1st.  So I will be back to working very hard and eating cleanly.

 I have been dating a girl named Megan.  She is nice, and she is really funny, but we have a lot less in common than Heather and I did.  She works for Disneyland so we can go for free anytime, but we haven’t gone yet.  We laugh a lot, but she does not like sports or poker or gambling or working out or good music and movies lol, and she is not a believer in God, so I don’t know how she really feels about me or how long it will last, but for now we are just hanging out a lot and enjoying being silly.  I do like her a lot and have enjoyed spending time with her, and she would do anything for me, but she does have a dark past, some bad friends and bad habits, and tons of drama with her 7 foot tall ex boyfriend.  She’s only 21 also, but it’s not like we are getting married or anything.  There have definitely been times when I have wondered if the things I like about her are just things that remind me of Heather, and that’s kind of shitty to think.  But there are definitely some interesting correlations between them that I will not discuss here.  But about her otherwise….she is a dancer, like hip hop and ballet and choreography and what not, not an exotic dancer lol.  She and I were in San Diego together last week so she could go to a job interview with Cirque Du Soleil, and I could see my mom and family, and my mom called her Heather 5 different times during the night!!!!!!  It was pretty embarrasing, but she didn’t take it personally, and I know that my mom always liked Heather a lot and knew that  I loved her very much, so it was a forgivable mistake.  So Megan and I have just been hanging out a lot and she has been taking care of me while I’m sick.  She has a really cute pet rabbit named Antelope, who likes me a ton more than he likes her haha.

Other than that, not tons going on.  Mayah is a big sister, which is exciting.  Roger is stressing out about finding a job.  Dave is trying to find love again so I have been helping him a little bit.  The Angels are playing pretty well despite having tons of injuries.  And the LAKERS LOOK DOMINANT AND UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!  So it’s an exciting time for sports here.  The Kentucky Derby is next Saturday, and the World Series of Poker starts on May 30th, so lots of stuff that I am interested in is coming up!!  So I am out of the gym today and tomorrow for sure, but hopefully back in with a vengeance on Monday!!!  And I STILL haven’t put up new pictures!!  I’M SO LAZY!!!!  I will do it, I promise, June 1st at the latest.

Oh what an insane and crazy week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I usually write in this thing every day, but this past week has been a little manic and bizarre, so I have taken some time off.  I have still been doing my crazy cardio, but I did miss a few days because of everything going on in my personal life, and I haven’t been lifting every day for the same reasons, but the days that I have lifted, I have felt EXTREMELY strong and have been lifting really heavy, so I think my body has enjoyed the rest.  I weighed myself today and the scale said 225!!!!!!!  I’m going to seek a second opinion lol, cuz that would mean that I lost like 10 or 11 pounds in the past two weeks and that seems like a lot.  My abs are starting to show a tiny tiny bit tho, and I feel like I look thinner.  I still need to do more ab work and take pictures so that I can compare and contrast, but I am positive that I look way different than I did back in January.  My pants are all falling off of me now because of the weight I have lost, and I had to find a belt to wear haha!

I would love to go into detail about what is going on personally, but I am still very unsure exactly what is happening, and I guess I should wait to be excited or bummed out, or anything else until it is all sorted out.  In the meantime, my job hunt officially begins tomorrow!!!!  I am nearly broke now lol, so if I don’t do something now, I will be without gas money, food money, cell phone bill money, and rent money in a few weeks.  My birthday is also coming up in 10 days.  I’m not excited about it, but I’m not down about it either.  I am only going to be 28, and life is so long and wonderful, that I am still very young, and next year when I am going to be turning 29, I will be looking back at this year with pride at how I turned a corner in my life and made strides towards setting myself up for the future.  Until all of this chaos is settled, I’m not sure how my schedule will look, but I am going to continue to try and push myself harder than ever in the gym and hopefully I can take some pics around my birthday so I can compare them with new pics that I will take sometime around June 1st.  I am also planning on writing my workout info down in more detail, like I used to, so that I can start keeping track of weight, reps, sets, etc. again so that I know that I am continually making progress and pushing myself harder each and every time in the gym in order to be better.  So that will officially begin the day after my bday, but I may start doing it next week just so I am getting into the habit.  As for my double cardio quest, I think that I can still accomplish it, but I need to do double every day for the next 10 days and that should put me at my goal.  Once I am working, my entire schedule will need to be rearranged to fit in school, work, friends, gym, and everything else, so it will probably be a little stressful at 1st, but I will be happy once I am able to fall into a routine with it all.  Anyway, time for a shower!