fosnchops’s BodyBlog

I seem to have posted that last blog how many times???  Clearly connection problems (not my inability to operate a computer) lol

Anyway I meant to save it and continue tonight.  I was going to go on to mention the downside to training hard and gaining mass.  I haven’t measured myself for ages and my mum is getting married soon. I have had a beautiful dress that I wore roughly two years ago to a graduation ball.  It’s been waiting for just right occasion to surface from my wardrobe for it’s second appearance and …. yep IT DOESN’T FIT ANYMORE.  Not that I have come to dislike the way I’ve changed, infact I love it, muscle tone and striation and feeling strong and able.  But I was gutted when I couldn’t get it done up above the bottom of my ribcage.  The zip must have been nearly 2 inches shy of meeting around my chest/back but the waist was loose.  There was just the fleeting split second thought - I wish I hadn’t changed.  Very fleeting, it’s just a bloody dress.  It’ll go on ebay and find a new home!  Damn… that inevitibly meant a shopping trip. (Much to the disappointment of my fella).  Now I’ve been measured and fitted for a new dress though, I can’t go gaining or losing.  I’m gonna have to try and maintain what I have exactly.  This presents a challenge to me because I do don’t watch measurements or lbs.  I go by a feel good factor to measure my personal success and satisfaction. But the glass is half full, and if I feel fantastic now all this means is I have to feel fantastic for the next month and a half to maintain my size… lol… This theory could work…  But if anyone can offer more scientific methods to maintainance I’m all ears. xx 

Crikey I’ve been sooo busy, it’s been unreal just how quickly time has flown.  So where do I start?  Well I turned 25…  I met up with old school friends for a meal for the occasion, was told I look like popeye, drank two glasses of champers with strawberries, then fell asleep! O dear O dear.  You can just imagine how much the piss was taken out of me….  Well I very rarely drink now and I simply can’t go throwing the plonk down my neck as I used to.  Hehe.. it made everyone chuckle though hey! 

Crikey I’ve been sooo busy, it’s been unreal just how quickly time has flown.  So where do I start?  Well I turned 25…  I met up with old school friends for a meal for the occasion, was told I look like popeye, drank two glasses of champers with strawberries, then fell asleep! O dear O dear.  You can just imagine how much the piss was taken out of me….  Well I very rarely drink now and I simply can’t go throwing the plonk down my neck as I used to.  Hehe.. it made everyone chuckle though hey! 

Crikey I’ve been sooo busy, it’s been unreal just how quickly time has flown.  So where do I start?  Well I turned 25…  I met up with old school friends for a meal for the occasion, was told I look like popeye, drank two glasses of champers with strawberries, then fell asleep! O dear O dear.  You can just imagine how much the piss was taken out of me….  Well I very rarely drink now and I simply can’t go throwing the plonk down my neck as I used to.  Hehe.. it made everyone chuckle though hey! 

Crikey I’ve been sooo busy, it’s been unreal just how quickly time has flown.  So where do I start?  Well I turned 25…  I met up with old school friends for a meal for the occasion, was told I look like popeye, drank two glasses of champers with strawberries, then fell asleep! O dear O dear.  You can just imagine how much the piss was taken out of me….  Well I very rarely drink now and I simply can’t go throwing the plonk down my neck as I used to.  Hehe.. it made everyone chuckle though hey! 

Yesterday, I felt disgusting.  I’m unsure if this started before or after i ate the cake…. the cookies and chocolate but hey ho on we go.

 Lost my job yesterday.  well kinda.  I worked in a factory, manufacturing and engineering based.  I applied for a job in the office and got the position - purchasing (the way i looked at it i was shopping and not picking up the bill! i just had to pretend it was shoes and not aluminium)  Was working a 45 hour week.  we had to vote for either redundancies on a point based system or a shorter week - the vote was a shorter week. as if losing nearly 13 hours pay a week wasn’t enough i was then told i had to go back into production.

Due to the way us women work (emotional issues associated with the certain time of the month) i went home feeling like a failure.  "i can’t even buy stuff right" i roared with my cake hole full of …..cake. it took my other half a good couple of hours to convince me that if i was that bad they would have been rid of me months ago and that they thought enough of me to give me my old job back even if i wasn’t really needed. bless him he’s a star.

But then i started crying again - because i had binged my way through about 1500 calories, 160g of carbs and 60g of saturated fat of crap, and yes i counted.  Why do we do it to ourselves because I know i’m not the only one.  I know what food is good or bad for me i know the effect of obesity on health and self esteem. and yet millions of people, myself included (though thankfully not as often now), turn to the biscuit tin in times of need.  

I just hope I haven’t spoiled all my hard work.  Back to the straight and narrow. I won’t fail myself again!  I still have a job, my man and my gym!

xx

Hello!

I’d be grateful for any info and tips from anyone out there to help me reach my goals, which are unfortunately a bit hazy.  I would like to reduce body fat %, increase muscle mass (slightly!) and change my diet for the better.  Girls, have any of you successfully increased your muscle mass whilst getting lean?  I have no figures in mind for my goals, only the reflection in the mirror.  Is this bad target setting?  We shall see.  

I have been going to the gym now since feb 06.  I have made some progress in this time.  I have no picture of me then to share with you, because i would make at least 30′ of space between myself and a camera at the time and i’m not much better now!  This camera shyness possibly come from my teen years being a bit overweight etc etc.

I shall get a photo of me tho and stats too.

Right now i can tell you im 5′6 and i’ve just weighed myself at the gym today and i’m 59kg or about 130lbs.  I enjoy the cardio i’ve been doing but i don’t get as much a buzz from the weight which i know will give me definition i crave.  I know i’ve hit the wall.  (again, tips on how to get over that wall or break the b**tard down would be fantastic)  And i’m getting a fat% in the next few days.  I don’t think i’m skinny fat but the test will soon tell me.

The diet i put in my body space, was only implemented about a month before christmas (the old 1 was even worse) and i haven’t felt any change, but i didn’t really expect any over the period.  If anyone know of good quick to prepare food to take to work with me i’m all ears .

Thanks to those who leave suggestions

xx

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