gymrat0226’s BodyBlog

I’ve been in Canada for 10 days and my diet….well I don’t think you would call it a diet, has not been great.  I’m surrounded by food that I haven’t had in 6 months not to mention the strict diet I was on for the show.  So pretty much I’ve been pigging out since I got here.  But I have been going to the gym and getting my workout in along with at least 30 min of cardio a day so I’m not feeling totally gross.  Plus I got to work out at my old gym with all my friends so that was awesome.  No one can believe I did a competition.  They can’t even believe it when I show them pictures.  It’s such a great feeling.  And when I walk in the gym everyone stares at me like I have three heads.

I think I gained about 2 lbs.  I weighed myself yesterday and I know the scale is off a bit so i had to add a few lbs.  Not bad considering the amount of food I’ve been eating.  We’re leaving in the morning for NJ for New Years so another 5 days of bad eating.  It’s going to take 8 1/2 hours to drive there so I cooked up some chicken breast and cut it up for the road.  We have our stash of protein bars, kashi bars and water so we’ll probably just stop for one hot meal on the way.  I’m sad to go because I know I won’t see my kids and family for another 6 months.  I really need to get serious about moving closer to home.  It’s all timing though.

So my husband who was totally against me competing in the first place cracks me up.  He says when we get back home "we have to get back on the diet and training to get ready for the next show."  Like he’s my manager or something…lol.  Well at least he’s being so supportive now.  I think he just loves the fact that I look good.

Have to get some shut eye for the long trip tomorrow.  Peace out…

It’s been almost 4 weeks since my first show and I’m doing alot better than I thought I’d be.  I think my motivation is the fact that I’m going home to Canada next Friday and I want to look good.  And an even bigger motivation to continue to eat as clean as possible while I’m there is that I’m meeting my husbands family in New Jersey for the first time after being married for 2 1/2 years!  It’s really hard with all these tempting snacks everywhere I go.

I’ve been doing my cardio at least 4-5 times a week, eating clean and breaking into the heaving lifting scene.  I only gained 5 lbs since the show and I’m really happy about that.  I can still see all the veins in my arms and I still have abs and I want to continue to maintain that.  I still cheat now and again but I make sure I go work it off if I do.

I decided to take some courses at my community college in January towards the Personal Trainer degree.  I’m taking nutrition first.  I figure that’s the foundation so that’s where I should start.  Without it I wouldn’t have this body for sure.  I want to take Physiology and Anatomy but there’s a prereq of Medical Terminology and for that I have to wait for my transcript to get there from the college in Canada for my English credit.  Such a pain going through all this process.

So I’ll be extremely busy after Christmas because come January 1st it’s 17 weeks out from my next show and alot of studying for school.  I figure I have a pretty good foundation (body wise) so I shouldn’t have to work so hard and so much for the next show.  I’ll be hiring Jay again as a nutritionist because he is awesome and really knows his stuff.  I’m very happy with him.  I definitely won’t be hiring a personal trainer because I just don’t have the money.  I feel I know what I’m doing.  I know what works for my body so what’s the point in paying someone to stand over me and tell me to do it.  I don’t need motivation…I already have it.

K…off to the gym in this aweful snowy weather….peace out…