Took the plunge
Well, this Sunday I finally made a decision, took the plunge…and hired Mike Davies to do my contest prep workout and diet. He said he’d try to get my diet to me this Sunday and I can’t wait! Really, the sooner it gets here the better, because the sooner I can start it!
Life has been crazy. Joe (my husband) started a new job at Target, making half of what he used to make, but he really actually likes it better and now he has time to work on his degree. I’m working crazy hours at all my jobs. 30 hours a week at Smoothie King, 10-15 at Vitamin Shoppe and Monday afternoons I teach lessons. My stress level has gone up (unfortunately) working at the King and the last two days has been really rough. I work with a bunch of 15 year olds who don’t know the meaning of "pro-active" and being manager, I’m tired of playing babysitter and CONSTANTLY telling them what to do. Today I was by myself for the first two hours, usually fine because we’re dead, but that second hour, without warning, and entire baseball team and their families all came in. There were 14 people in there and each of them ordered no less than 4 smoothies a piece! I was by myself and at one point it really got to me and I just broke down and cried in front of all of them. I felt so silly, but honestly, I couldn’t handle it all by myself and there was no end in sight. When they were gone and it was all over, the adrenaline left my body and I was left totally exhausted. Most of the rest of my day was a fog; I didn’t want to talk to anyone or deal with customers and their stupid questions (i.e. "do you just have a regular smoothie?" What the crap is THAT?!).
On a positive note, I feel like I"ve made some real progress in the gym. Today was overkill. I knew I shouldn’t have gone this morning - I didn’t really want to work my back and shoulders, and my middle delts were still sore from two days ago. I did super-slow super sets (7 counts up, 7 counts down lat raises and upright rows) and I’ve been doing cardio every day, incroporating more sprints into my workouts. I see a lot more definition than I’ve seen before. While my weight is still about the same, my bodyfat (according to the scale) seems about the same, I know I’ve lost the rest of the cruise water weight and I feel like my muscles are growing - my shoulders are huge! I love it! I can’t wait till I get more definition in my abs and the cellulite dissapears on my hams and glutes. Back to today, I had no desire to be in the gym, zero energy, zero enthusiasm. Funny enough, I had more energy when I left work, so I did 45 minutes of cardio afterwards. 
I WILL be a figure competitor and I will look darn good doing it!
