fitdiva83’s BodyBlog

I’ve been doing well with my training, getting the cardio done, strength training diligently and eating pretty clean. It seems, lately, that I have no desire to eat anymore. It’s a struggle to get down three small meals a day much less five or six. I’m moving out of my NYC apartment and will be living in Boston for six weeks this summer. I will be close by to my figure competition prep team, which is very exciting to me. The competition I want to do is six weeks away and I’m nowhere near where I thought I would be by now. I’m loving my upper body, shoulders, especially. But not too happy with the glutes. As my upper bod leans out considerably and my lower bod lags behind, I’m looking more and more like a pear than ever. I’ve trimmed another inch off my waist, 28 inches. I don’t know if it’s physically possible to get it smaller than 27. But my real concerns are the hips and butt. I’m going to switch to a circuit routine for one of my leg training sessions, add a sprinting and stairs session once a week as soon as I reach Boston (there are no high school stadiums here in the city) and then add some pylometric activities on one of my upper body training days. We’ll have to see how tweaking the training helps. If not, then I’ll have to look at my diet. You are only supposed to change one thing at a time and lord knows, I don’t want to do any additional cardio (lol).

So I’ve been hitting the gym pretty hard for the past few weeks, doing cardio like it’s nobody’s business. I’ve been doing at least 30-60 min. each session, at least 4-5 times a week. This frequency is unheard of in my training, since I hate, hate most forms of cardio unless it’s spinning, kickboxing, dance or organized team sports. But my secret has been mixing it up: walking on an incline on the treadmill, intervals on the crosstrainer or bike, doing hills on the arctrainer. I have yet to attempt the Stepmill since I almost fell off the machine last year. Lol. And you know I’ve been diligent with the weights, focusing on legs, glutes and abs. And my diet has never been cleaner. See what trying to look like a million dollars in a designer bikini can do for a woman’s motivation? Here’s a sample dinner meal:

6 oz. of grilled halibut

8 asparagus spears

1/2 cup of strawberries (for my sweet tooth!)