Sara’s BodyBlog

Got my blood-test answeres back today, I have too high liver-values. My doctor said they’re as bad as an extreme alcoholic. Nice, considering I haven’t even smelled alcohol in a long time, and before that even longer time. :/

He also said it could be because of one of the suppliments I take, and my trainers husband (also a PT) told me to get off one of them and see if it gets better, if not try stop taking another one.

But then my neighbour said that he had had the exact same results and then he stopped taking all protein-shakes containing creatin and his values got back to normal. So I guess that is what I’ll have to do. I stopped taking it a few days ago anyway, but now I guess I cannot get on it ever again :/

If someone knows what else it could be, please tell me.

Anyway, back to training, after just a few days of eating a little bit more carbs my muscles are already bigger, more volume, I don’t mean I’ve got more muscles but that they are just popping out more. Amazing how the body responds so quickly on food. Truly interesting.

I had to go back to school on friday to hand over some papers and then we had speechday on saturday, so that meant that I had to do some travelling, since my school is on the other side of the Baltic Sea :p

I was really worried about this, how it would work out with my diet and everything, so I started planning it a week before I left :p

Anyway, I took the archipelago-ferry over to the mainland on wednesday, and first went to visit my father. And to my surprise he had bought everything that I’d asked him to.  So the hole weekend went great. He gave me a ride to Turku on thursday, and my grandmother had put the refrigerator on in my apartment on advance so, there was absolutely no trouble. This really made me glad:)

Taken from the ferry


Anyway, I had the day off on thursday and just walked around, took some sun, went swimming, the weather was great and I felt like I really needed that day. It’s good to just relax sometimes, and not home by the television but in another environment. I’m glad that I have that possible option. Besides it was great meeting the dogs again, I’ve really missed them. And my grandparents.
Dad had got some new sheep, black ones, and a kitten. Don’t really like cats, but hey what can you do.. :p

He’s getting married again in August, third time even huh? Congrats anyway, dad..

Our lake. Just love sun-bathing there, just listening to the birds and the breeze

Found some tadpoles in the water..

Apple trees, so beautiful when in bloom

The sheep.

I need help!

I don’t have a problem passing on that latte or muffin at the café, but on special occasions, like tonight when we’re having dinner at my school (pizza and salad), I just can’t bring my own food. I can’t bring my own food normally to school either, sometimes I do but it makes me feel really really uncomfortable.
This may sound ridiculous but nobody else does it :S

We have the benefit of free food in school, and  it’s not like it’s terribly unhealthy, it’s just that normal "Finnish food" contains a lot of carbs, and not so much protein. And since protein is so much more expensive than carb-products, we only get a few small pieces of meat in every serving.

Why is it so terrible to be different from the rest?
And why do I have such a hard time to stand up for myself and say "hey, atleast I have a healthy lifestile, how long will you live?"
And why does it disturb me so much what other people think?

The weirder part is if I would go for a latte or something and someone from my gym would see it I would be embarressed by that too.

Please someone say you understand what I mean?
Even better, tell me how to get over this.
I AM proud of being an active gym-member, I am. And I love it. Why is it so hard?

Don’t worry about tonight, I won’t eat any pizza, I’ll just eat before I go and only have some salad there, that’s no problem. I’ll just bring Leader’s "Protein 40". A goddamn lifesaver. 40 grams of protein, 0 grams of carbs and 0 grams of fat in a 0,5 litres bottle. (And it tastes great). But it contains quite a lot of E-codes, so I guess you can’t drink to much of it.