Gigi’s BodyBlog

I want to apologize to all of my fellow fluffers out there…I had to quit the Baby Got Back Challenge while I was dealing with a family emergency. I do take these challenges VERY seriously. The good news is that I am back and better than ever and I have missed everybody here on Bodyspace…Love ya!

I am going to enter depression soon. I am coping the loss of a dear loved one…No I did not lose a family member nor did my ipod die on me…I lost a long time friend of mine, MY SHOPPING BUDGET. Why you might ask?!?!? No, I did not get fired from my job I am working more now than ever (too bad I am salary lol). What little shopping budget I had before beginning my clean eats body transformation is now going to my OUTRAGEOUS grocery bill! Not to mention my various protein and supplements! Am I the only one that has this problem??? How have you all managed to cope??? I try to console myself when I see a great pair of jeans by saying "If you buy those now they will be too big in a month" but that same justification doesn’t work for my makeup and shoe addiction…AAAIIYYAAA I know someday these sacrifices will be worth it but man ol’ man is it hard. Please if anybody wants to offer me some FREE therapy, I will gladly accept..LOL

Fluff Stuff- Ok had ZERO cheats last week and it was definitely hard. Sunday’s are usually my cheat days so I will see how it goes tomorrow. Not seeing the progress in my back that I would like to but I am still working on the pullups. I did 3 with a spotter on Wednesday…UFF

Since my mother raised me right, I would never be so rude as to tell these people that they annoy me…Instead I will post it here, since I know they won’t be on this website, lol. I won’t list their names, but these are REAL people..ha ha

• You annoy me~ The lady that was on the elliptical machine next to me on Saturday looking at me like I needed an exorcism while I was getting low on the machine working my glutes at the hardest level and sweating like a whore in church. This is what working out looks like, it ain’t always pretty.
• You annoy me~ The guy sitting on the one bench that I need talking on his cell phone. You obviously did not plan on working out hard today if you even brought the damn phone with you, let alone answered it. Cell phones in the gym are meant for EMERGENCY purposes.
• You annoy me~ The little pyscho blonde cashier at the grocery store who always feels the need to make some kind of weird comment about the food I buy. Just ring my 10 dollar bag of tilapia up and zip it lady!
• You annoy me~ the skinny middle aged man that goes to the gym to watch golf and always seems to wait until I am doing cable crossovers with only 30 second rests to ask me if he can use the pull up bars. I would say yes every once in a while if I knew that you would actually do a pull up, but you don’t. You take 5 minutes and you just hang there, can’t you wait till I am done to stretch!?!!?!?!?
• You annoy me~ The two ladies on the step mills reading magazines and talking about what they did over the weekend. If you can actually READ the articles and not just look at the pictures and you can actually explain what you did for 2 days without having to stop for air, YOU ARE NOT WORKING OUT HARD ENOUGH.
• You annoy me~ the guy that kept swimming over me at the pool yesterday morning when there were two other lanes free. No, you aren’t faster than me. You just happen to be higher in the water than me because FAT floats. There is a reason you see beached whales and not beached dolphins and sharks. And 0630 in the morning is way too early to piss someone off.
• You annoy me~ The complete stranger that stopped me yesterday to ask me what happened to my ankle and then told me that I should be more careful next time or maybe I should just try walking. You are obviously not a runner if you tell another runner to just walk and thanks for the advice on being more careful..I will keep that in mind next time I want to go out and sprain my ankle.
• You annoy me~ You sweaty italian guy who always uses the girly weights and never wipes your back sweat off the machine. Dude, I swear you can lift more than 15 pounds and the towels are free at our gym!

OK enough negativity…I don’t want to be a toxic person so here are a few people I adore!

• I adore you~ my coworker who NEVER complains about the smell of fish or popcorn in our poorly ventilated office.
• I adore you~ My dad who has finally given up on trying to convince me to eat meat and every time I go home he transforms his normally fatty southern recipes into really tasty clean eats. He even offered to make tofu turkey for Thanksgiving
• I adore you~ My ex-husband..yes you read write..My ex-husband who is probably the only man that will ever truly understand me and my need to workout. He listens to me bitch, especially now when I have a bum ankle, he consoles me and still tells me I am beautiful although he hasn’t seen me in 2 years, lol.
•  I adore you~ My fellow fluffers and bodyspacers for all the kind words of support!

Ciao Fellow Fluffers! How is your challenge going???? Well, initially I had set some pretty relaxed goals for myself BUT after viewing some of your blogs I realized that you guys are going to be one tough crowd to beat so I have to step my game up, lol. Obviously you are going to make winning this challege tough for me, but that’s alright because an easy victory is not worth the fight! So below I have posted a recent pic of my back which by the way it is REALLY hard to take a picture of your own back especially when the only mirror you own is the tiny one in the bathroom ha ha! Anywho~ I saw that most of you guys are so hard core you are opting not to take the cheat meals SO I am going to have to ignore the chocolate that calls my name and stick to my fish and veggies…This challenge is only 3 weeks right?!?!?! I will gage my Baby Got Back Progress using visuals~so picks but I wanted to add a little challenge for myself…I would like to be able to do 5 pullups with a spotter or 1 by myself.  Don’t laugh too hard at my pic- it is hard to flex muscles you don’t have ha ha…I am kissing the back fat goodbye…SMOOCH…Ok, GAME FACE ON!!!!

Well here I am, Ms. Fluff, to tell you guys that you are up for a challenge. Even with a bum ankle I am going to give you all a run for your money in the Baby Got Back Challenge, lol!!! While I would love to work on my ASSets, the ankle kind of puts a damper on that. SOOOO, I have decided to work on my back! I am hoping to see some visible muscles. As far as the diet goes, I am not hard core so I will have a small scheduled cheat every week. Nothing over 600 calories, all in one hour. I will report this every week, like a good student I will also take progress pics of my back….

BRING IT ON MY FELLOW BABY GOT BACK FLUFFERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Since hurting my ankle AGAIN I have learned a lot about myself this past week:

#1. Average, Normal- No Thanks! While I was waiting to see the doctor about said flimsy ankle I was sitting with the nurse while she took my blood pressure, heart rate and temperature…That’s when she looked at the machine, looked back at me and said "Oh you’re not normal." I am not normal because I don’t fall into the "average" measurements for a woman my age. No, I don’t weigh 140 and wear a size 8. Nothing wrong with weighing 140, if it is 140 pounds of HARD MUSCLE. No, I don’t have high blood pressure and No, I don’t have an "average" resting heart rate of 73-76 bpm. I have the resting heart rate of an athlete, 55 bpm. I don’t work my butt off in the gym to be "average." Thanks but I will pass.

#2. Split Personality Disorder- I apparently have 2 personalities. One very sweet but a little sassy which is usually my day-to-day personality. I think she is probably quite enjoyable to be around. Then there is apparently a very bitchy-not-so-covered-with-sugar girl inside me who only comes out when I am not able to workout and run like I would like to. Damn ankle.

#3. Fiber- It is not a good idea to eat over half of your body’s daily fiber needs in one sitting, aka Fiber One Cereal 57%…You will either spend half the day on the toilet or half the day smelling like one!

#4. Obsession- I am obsessed with staring at my own stomach. I don’t do it out of vanity or because I have the best abs…Although in my head I know that I am not going to put on 2 inches of weight back on in this area due to my new sedentary life, I can’t help but to "control" my abs…Like every 5 minutes, LOL!

#5. Chivalry- Although we are in a time when women are stronger and more independant than ever, I still enjoy men who hold the door for me. Especially when I am limping.

#6. Retail Therapy- I am unbelievably cheap when it comes to things like bills..If I get a 200 dollar water bill the first thing I think is what the f*$k?!?!? But I won’t think twice about dropping 200 bucks on a pair of running shoes or a hundred on some new cellulite cream! Gotta love retail therapy

This ol’ heffer has sparined her ankle…I cried, but not from the pain but because I am disappointed. I have trained really hard the past 2 months and now it will all go down the drain. I can continue to do weights, just not lower body…Does anybody have any suggestions as far as cardio goes? Or maybe some upperbody workouts that will get my heart rate pumping? Or hell, jsut some words of encouragement!?!?!?!?!

Love you guys!!

Let me just start off by saying that I am aware that sometimes I ask some really off the wall questions and I do have my classic blonde moments but I figured who better to ask this troubling questions than to all my friends here on bodybuilding.com!

I have been a vegetarian for over 10 years…I am not one of those annoying ones who cannot sit at a table with you while you eat juicy steak, I just don’t eat meat. I started to incorporate fish and dairy into my diet about 3 years ago when I got into long distance running, marathons. I have never had any kind of want or desire to eat meat again until recently…It all started about 3 weeks ago when my gym program changed and now I am doing fewer reps with heavier weights. I am not craving meat in general, just BEEF JERKY. How weird is that?!?!? Is this sudden craving somehow related to a vitamin I am not getting enough of? I would have satisfied my sudden craving with some soy jerky but unfortunately it is unavailable where I am What do you guys think??? Am I going nuts???

I can explain…That is what I was thinking…And I could have explained, but I didn’t. I had just driven 10 hours for a business trip, from Italy to Germany… 10 hours on the roads under construction with a speed limit of 50mph..10 hours of fighting the temptation of eating those yummy german sweets or bread each time I stopped for gas…10 hours for a trip that normally takes 7. So when I arrived at the Army base where I was staying and the MP proceeded to search my car since I was a visitor, needless to say I was not in the best mood. As he opened my trunk and found all of my carefully planned out meals- 2 dozen hardboiled eggs, ziploc baggies full of perfectly rationed portions of oatmeal, almonds and tupperware containers filled with tilapia and veggies, not to mention all of my protien and various other supplements- he looked me up and down like I was some kind of crazy freak getting ready to go hide in a bunker with enough food to last me thru a depression. I could have explained. Afterall, I did put a lot of hard work into preparing all of that food! What I wanted to say to him was "You know, I do this whole clean eating thing…I try to stick to my diet even when I am travelling..BLAH BLAH BLAH." I could have explained. And usually I am a very nice person. BUT it was 10 hours on the road and judgemental people just plain out irk me. So instead of explaining why I was driving around with enough food to feed an entire Army I simply showed him the same respect he showed me…None! I looked him up and down like HE was the crazy freak and said, "You OBVIOUSLY don’t work out so you wouldn’t understand." I must say it felt pretty damn liberating.

SOOO- I say that we adopt today as INTERNATIONAL PISS OFF DAY! This means that we don’t HAVE to explain to anybody why we eat the way we do, why we workout as much or as hard as we do. Why we get up in the morning for cardio and hit the gym at night..Screw them. If they need an explanation tell them to just PISS OFF. Let’s just surround ourselves with good people, the kind of people that don’t need an explanation. The kind of people that just get it. Period.

I am usually a pretty peaceful person but I have officialy decided to WAGE WAR~ I am waging war on that stubborn back fat, my flat butt, and the flab that is lingering around my midsection! And the cellulite hanging out on my thighs is not safe either…IT’S ON AND I WILL NEVER SURRENDER!!! You have to pick your battles and I will not accept defeat…BRING IT ON!

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