gymrat0226’s BodyBlog

I just spent the last 16 weeks preparing for something I wanted to do my whole life….compete in a bodybuilding competition!  I finally did it…my life-long dream and now I’m hooked.  I’m already planning to do another show on May 2, 2009 in Washington, IL.  I know what I have to work on now (well, I already knew before) but it’s confirmed by the judges I need to work on glutes and hams.  So it’s going to be “The Great Bum Project of 2009!!!”

It was a really great experience for my first show.  All the competitors where really nice and it wasn’t “catty” like most people would think.  Everyone helped everyone out but I’m sure everyone wanted to win the 1st place trophy.  I didn’t go with that mindset because I never want to be disappointed.  I was in two divisions, Masters (+40) and Middle Class (5’2”-5’ 4”).  There were only two girls in each class and I placed 2nd.  When the MC announced I was 2nd place the whole crowd was silent and you could only here Danielle’s little voice scream out “No!”  It was kind of funny.  The girl who handed out trophies ended up giving me the 1st place trophy with a gift basket.  So everyone got confused and the MC said to the girl “I think you got them switched”.
After the show I was standing in the lobby and 4 people who were in the audience came up to me and congratulated me on how great I looked and how well I did on stage.  An older couple that go to my gym came up to me too.  They are serious bodybuilders.  She’s close to 70 and he’s probably a few years older.  This woman can lift as much as me and she’s ripped up!  It really is something to see.  Anyhow, they came up to me and said they go to these bodybuilding competitions all over and they predict the winners and this was the first time they’ve been wrong!  That made me feel really good.  Then one of the judges came up to me and said I did awesome.  I had a great stage presence, my upper body is perfect and the only notes he had was that I needed to work on hams and glutes….yes, yes, I know!  He told me about his show in May, 2009 and said he’d be honored if I came to his show to compete and it would give me enough time to work on my rear parts.

After the show I was so hungry and thirsty I just wanted to eat anything so me, William and my friend Alice went to Denny’s and I had Philly Cheese Stake and Fries and I ate pretty much the whole thing and OMG I felt like crap after.  Then I came home and took Williams chocolate covered almonds and started eating those and fell asleep watching TV with my hand in the bag.  So today I started off with Kashi cereal and milk!  I haven’t had milk in 2 months!  It was yummy.  Then for lunch I ate a burger at Chilli’s.  I think that did me in.  I can’t eat like that.  It totally grosses me out.  So I cooked a bunch of chicken breast and brown rice to freeze for the week.  It’s funny because I felt like a prisoner that just got out of jail.  You’re free and now you don’t know what to do because you’re scared you’ll get into trouble.  And that’s how it is with food now.  So I have to stay on track which won’t be hard because I’ve been deprived of the healthy food I like, like salad, milk, yogurt, kashi bars and now I can have them.  I don’t even think about chips or cookies I just want to have some milk with cereal…lol.

Oh well, I had fun and I know what to expect now.  So my long-term plans are to compete in the May show and start looking for a show in the summer around Toronto so I can do that show and all my family and friends can come and watch.  That would be awesome!

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