gymrat0226’s BodyBlog

7 weeks out and Jay says I’m officially on target according to my progress pics.  I’m really happy about that!  I think I pretty much have my diet under control now.  Took a while but it’s been 3 weeks and no cheating!
Well, except for my husbands birthday and I did an extra cardio session before hand to take care of that.

I spent all weekend looking through my previous show pictures and comparing them with my pictures now.  Created a new chart of my weight and measurements.  I lost everything because my computer crashed just before the show and I lost everything!  So at this point at 7 weeks out I’m at the same point I was at 2 weeks out last time!  So that’s good right!?  But I do have to be leaner for the NANBF show because that’s what they’re looking for.  So the week after that show I doing an NGA show, the Jimmy Coby Classic in Longview, TX and I don’t have to be as lean so I should be in pretty good shape for that show.

I have all my hotel rooms booked.  My new shoes are on order.  I ordered 4" heels this time around.  Those 5" heels are just ridiculous!  My suit is being made and should be ready this weekend.  I’m registered for one show
and have to register for the other one this weekend.

My friend who won the overall at the NGA last year in Wichita is going to work with me on walking and posing.  She has excellent stage presence so I want to learn from the best.  We’re going to do a trade-off.  I’m going to
create a website for her and she’s going to teach me posing.  I eventually want to focus on fitness websites so this is a perfect start.  I already have a few under my belt and once my portfolio is built up I’m going on my
own and starting my own freelance business.

Everything’s going great.  Diet is clean, training is great.  I’m getting a little tired now but could be allergies, overtime, that time of the month, who knows!  I’ve decided to do another show as well as the NANBF in Tulsa on June 6th.  I’m going to do the Jimmy Coby Classic in Longview, TX on June 13th the weekend after.  I’ve never been to Texas and my husband can’t come so my suit designer is coming with me.  A girls weekend…yay!!!!

Last week was pretty stressful because I was working 10 hr days.  My company brought in lunch everyday and I survived!  They brought pizza one day and it was pretty disgusting looking so that didn’t really bother me.  Deli the next day and I had a salad with grilled chicken.  It took me about 10 minutes to pick off the 1 lb of cheese that was on it!  OMG no wonder people are so large here!  The next day they had bar-b-q.  All I had from that was grilled chicken and I brought my own salad.  My diet was pretty clean and I ended up losing over a pound.

This week is going even better than last week and mother nature showed up today.  Kind of snuck up on me.  I didn’t get any cravings thanks to Calm and Calmer.  I love that stuff!  I haven’t gained any weight either so that’s just awesome!  I was a bit cranky and tired yesterday but that’s about it.  Oh and tonight I hear my husband downstairs in the snack cupboard getting his evening snack.  I called down to him because he had shut everything off like he thought he was coming in the bedroom (my private space) to eat his junk!!!  I asked him where he thought he was going to eat that.  He kind of stutters like he got caught red handed and says ummmmm, down here???  I said are you out of your mind.  You were actually going to bring that crap up here!!  Yeah…just a little cranky…ya think!

I took my progress pics last night for Jay to critique.  He says my upper body is good if not a little ahead of schedule but the lower body needs alot of work.  My mother is half Italian so no further explanation.  I got those Italian legs!  Every little bit of crap I put in my mouth goes to my legs, not the hips.  So he changed my training a bit and this weekend he’ll switch up my diet.

I’m not sure what’s going on with me but I gained 1/2 lb since last week and I’ve had a super clean diet this past week plus my calories burned was 50 more per session and I also cut back on my coffee.  My face is breaking out in pimples too!  WTF!!!  So I said screw it, I bought a mini vanilla scone this morning from Starbucks.  It’s only 130 calorie cheat but I haven’t cheated this week at all.  Tomorrow’s my weigh in day so it’s time to shake things up a bit.

I’ve been working my ass off at the gym so there’s absolutely no reason for this weight gain.  I don’t want my calories cut again because what I have now is just sufficient enough so that I’m not cheating.  I’m losing inches, feeling tighter so maybe it’s just water.  Who knows.

My allergies have been really bothering me over the past week too.  I finally went and got some allergy medicine yesterday because it felt like I had a cold I was blowing my nose so much.  And it only happens at work.  The place is a mold infested, dust bowl.  I sit at my desk and sneeze and sniffle all day long!  So next week I’m going to the doctor to get some prescribed allergy medicine because the Claritin really isn’t working as well as I thought it would.