fitnessprincess’s BodyBlog

Busy and very scary day today for Pam!

First I heard from my suit maker that I am going to have a moderate rather than full bottom on my suit. Agh!! If you saw “moderate” you would understand my knee-jerk fear reaction. My bottom is rather big and I am not sure that everyone wants to have that much of an eyeful of my butt! She insists that I am being silly and my butt is going to be just fine in the moderate suit bottom. Agh!!! OK calm down Pam. Take another deep breath. Repeat after me: everything is going to be OK. Everything is going to be OK…

OK. Sigh. That’s the sound of a frenzied calm settling in here. Hmmm… Ugh! Now, I want to bite my nails again. Ugh!!! Anyway I visited several tanning and nail salons at lunch. Each store has different products and services. LOL! I feel so stupid! The only thing keeping me sane is remembering that I have somehow managed to live 40+ years without knowing any of this stuff! And hey! I should be able to do this, right??

There are many different tanning products out there – about as many products as there are tanning salons. That’s funny too. I never noticed them or even realized how many there are (in fact there are two right across from my university) until I started looking for them. A number of good people on a number of discussion boards have recommended Mystic Tan as a base so that’s what I am planning on doing. This is a spray tan. You apparently go in a booth, get sprayed from all angles, wait 8 h before showering so the color can develop, and then there you go! It is good for a few days. So, the plan is to get sprayed Thursday night, sleep, wake up Friday and shower, teach, and then get on the train to travel to the hotel and the competition which takes place Saturday. I am going to do a practice run on the spray tan probably next week so I know what to expect.

Apparently though the spray tan itself isn’t enough. So, I have been told to buy Jan Tana Onstage and that I will need to apply 4-5 coats of that beforehand.

I also visited a number of nail salons. I bite my nails down to the quick and have for years. Heck! I am biting my nails even as I type this blog entry! I have been most unsuccessful dieting and trying to go cold turkey on the nail biting so I have finally decided to go acrylic and get “French tips” for the nails. That will cost me $40 and I plan on doing that Tuesday before the competition. I may do a practice run on the nails, too. Haven’t decided yet.

Tomorrow I am going to Norwood for the weekend to attend Cathy Savage’s Fall Fitness Camp where I hope to learn all about makeup application, posing, tanning, and everything I need to know before my competition on Oct. 20^th. I am excited and terrified all at the same time. Terrified because I am concerned the weekend will affirm that I am crazy thinking that a 47-year old broad with no fitness/model experience could ever dream of competing in a figure competition. Also, terrified because I am so out of my element. I never was a girlie-girl – never interested in makeup, dating, etc. So, this is an alien world to me. Excited because I really want to learn this stuff and make up (ooh! bad pun!) for lost time. Well, we’ll see soon enough as they say!

Have a great day!

Today was my much needed rest day.  I really needed it.  This week school started and I finished up a grant application so it was a very busy week for me.  I didn’t do much today but did get a great nap!  Didn’t eat as much as I had planned but as I always say if you are satiated not a bad thing not to make your macros.  Tomorrow is cardio day!

summary for 9/8/07
1502 calories consumed
136 g protein (175 g protein target)
38 g fat (41 g fat target)
150 g carbs (193 g carb target)
77 g starchy carbs (75 g starchy carbs target)

Gonna mix it up in terms of macros and see how I do as I am getting closer to my date!

summary for 9/7/07
1502 calories consumed
144 g protein (156 g protein target)
39 g fat (36 g fat target)
178 g carbs (176 g carb target)
43 g starchy carbs (75 g starchy carbs target)

Also going to mix up my workouts as well
10-min step mill L12 aerobic training
forward Db lunges 3 sets of 20 reps
full body pushups on Dbs 3 sets of 20 reps
Db pullovers 3 sets of 20 reps
seated calf raise 3 sets of 25 reps

Happy New Year!  If you are an educator then you know exactly what I am talking about.  Tis that time of year!  LOL!  When we were kids my parents enjoyed the start of a new school year as much as my sisters and I did.  There was always one evening when we went school shopping for new dresses and school supplies.   It really is/was just like the Staples commercial says:  "It’s the most wonderful time of the year!"  Chuckle.
When I was ten years old, I remember watching Speed Racer (that definitely dates me!) and emulating my hero I attempted to vault over the arm of my mom’s rocking chair.  Unfortunately, mom was sewing and had a threaded needle poking out of the arm rest.  I ended up with the needle in my wrist.  No sooner had it happened then my mom brought me into the kitchen where before I had time to blink, with a kitchen knife she carved the needle out of my wrist - only to find she had half a needle.  Next I knew my sisters and I were off to the hospital.  Everyone was afraid the other half of the needle was threading its way to my brain at the hospital.  Disgusted my mother (Super Mom) brought me home after the physicians had stitched my wrist back together.  She went over the rocker arm and found the other half of the needle.  Appeased my parents took us school shopping that night like nothing had happened.  It was so surreal and yet so reassuring.

Anyway Wednesday was the start of classes at the university and the start of the two classes I am teaching - one undergrad (a brand new prep for me) and one graduate - this semester.  Complicating things was the grant application - deadline next week - that I had to pull together and get over to the Sponsored Research Office on campus (it takes them a week to press the button believe it or not).  So, this week has been rough!  Until today I didn’t have a chance to get to the gym and workout which really made me sad but school/work comes first!  The flip side of this has been that my total caloric intake this week has been very low (not super happy about this) but my hunger has also been low (good!) simply because I have been so busy and came home so tired.  At any rate I finally made it to the gym today and had a great cardio workout - 40-min on my old friend mr. step mill!  LOL!

Anyway things are going along.  I got the registration form for the Figure Competition today and plan to fill it out and send it in tomorrow (which is by the way my birthday!).
Below is the nutritional summary for the last four days:

summary for 9/3/07
1195 calories consumed (1397 calories target)
121 g protein (140 g protein target)
27 g fat (54 g fat target)
121 g carbs (87 g carb target)

summary for 9/4/07
1037 calories consumed (1397 calories target)
89 g protein (140 g protein target)
34 g fat (54 g fat target)
95 g carbs (87 g carb target)

summary for 9/5/07
1134 calories consumed (1397 calories target)
98 g protein (140 g protein target)
42 g fat (54 g fat target)
94 g carbs (87 g carb target)

summary for 9/6/07
1267 calories consumed
133 g protein (146 g protein target)
31 g fat (34 g fat target)
115 g carbs (162 g carb target)
43 g starchy carbs (75 g starchy carbs target)