Celia

So far my diet wasn’t what I expected. I have been good and bad at the same time. But I have been in the gym religiously and I have also been running every morning. Going back to the old gym I used to go to back home felt great. Everyone has given me compliments on the way I look and how I have changed since the last time they saw me a year ago. Some even said they almost didn’t recognized me.

The hardest thing for me being here is what my family keeps around the house. At home I don’t keep anything bad so I am not tempted to eat it. So that has been my biggest issue. Plus I have not have Cuban food in a year so that hasn’t helped either. But I have tried to be concious about what I eat and I have kept my cardio up.

I have also been going to a new gym with an old highschool girlfriend. I have seen a  lot of familiar faces and I can tell they look at me like I look familiar but they don’t know who I am. All throughout highschool I was overweight. I am now a completely different person to everyone.

Last night I was at this new gym and I had at least 4 different people come to me for advice on diet, form, how did I get my abs and legs to look the way they do. It felt so great! I feel like my hard work is paying off and people are noticing more and more every day.
The next step for me is to get my personal training certification. I need to start charging for all this free advice I’m giving out. haha!

So I go back to hell tomorrow. (Ugh!) It’s going to be a long drive back but I’m bringing my meals for the trip. Instead of doing the detox down here I’m going to do it Saturday once I’m back. I will still have 9 weeks to get ready for the show. I feel like my body responds well to dieting. And I still have high hopes that I can compete this June. At least I’m going to try my hardest still.

I will keep you guys updated.

Love,

Celia

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So I am somewhat going through the motions of getting ready for the competition June 13th. I won’t be dieting the full 12 weeks. I think I will diet strictly for 10 weeks. Mainly because when I found out about it I was a couple of days short of having the full 12 weeks and I haven’t been the best with my diet the past few days even though I can’t say I have been eating bad. So next Friday April 3rd I go to Miami to visit my family for a week, and I have to have at least one day to cheat. I loooooove my mom’s Cuban food and I haven’t been home in exactly a year. So I cannot go through the torture of being there for a week and not having at least a good meal one day. So the plan is on Friday when I get there have her cook my favorite meal and that will be my last cheat meal before competition. I will have exactly 10 weeks as of April 4th until the day of competition. So I think that workouts pretty well.

Does anyone know where I can find a good cutting diet though? I found one a while ago and I have been somewhat following it and that’s how I leaned out again since January but I’m not necesarily a fan of it. If anyone has any websites they know of feel free to tell me.

=)