gymrat0226’s BodyBlog

Today was such a screwed up day.  We were hit with our first snowstorm of the season…in March!  We’ve been wearing capris and sandals for the past 3 weeks!  This weather is retarded.  My work let us out an hour early yesterday because the weather was so bad.  Well I was prepared and brought my gym clothes with me just in case they let us leave early.  I stopped in the gym on the way home and got my workout in.  This morning I woke up and nothing had changed.  The weather radar looked exactly the same as it did when I went to bed last night!  Unbelievable, this storm was not moving anywhere.  The ice is so thick on everything.  Our small tree in the backyard is half the size and kind of split down the middle from the weight of the ice and all the trees are just hanging to the ground and the branches are snapping off in the wind.

I really didn’t want to travel to the Y when the base gym is only 2 minutes away.  So I called the base to see if they were even open and they said they weren’t opening until 12.  Well that totally sucked because I go at 10 on Saturdays and then I go grocery shopping after at the Commissary on base.  Then we found out the Commissary wasn’t opening until 1 either.  So we hung out at home until 11:30 and then ventured out in the storm like a bunch of fools to the gym.  We got there and we were the only ones there!  Awesome!  Three other people showed up and that was it.  I could only work out for an hour because my husband had to go home and get ready for work so I decided to go later to the Y after the storm passed.  Well I ended up getting stuck in a huge ass snow drift and luckily there were two guys right there with a big 4×4 and a tow rope and dragged me out.  We got home, fed everyone, got my husband off to work, started to get my stuff together to go to the gym and then I hear this really loud electrical humming noise and then an explosion…no power!  The main transformer in our subdivision exploded for all the ice.  I called my husband while he was driving to work and told him so he came back and went to pick up wood and some emergency supplies just in case we didn’t get our power back for a few days.  Power came back on about 2 hrs later so my step-son and I went to the gym to finish my workout.

So my day has been totally screwed up because I’m not eating at the times I was supposed to be eating and not eating the food I’m supposed to be eating either.  I hate being off my schedule!  I was doing cardio and I started to get really light headed so I jumped off the machine and had a sip of my energy drink to see if it would help.  I jumped back on and then I felt like I was going to pass out.  I lasted 33 minutes and had to get off the machine.  So I just sat down on the floor for a few minutes and ate a protein bar.  I didn’t have anything to eat before I went so I think I just needed some carbs.  I was still so hungry after so I ended up going out for dinner with my husband and had scrambled eggs, a 4 oz steak and….3 pancakes : (  …but damn that was good and I definitely won’t feel like cheating with any junk food tonight!

I think I have finally adjusted to my diet.  Took a few weeks but I think I have a good handle on it now.  I’m always whining and complaining at first for fear I’m going to starve to death or something but now it’s a challenge to get all my calories in.  Trying to get the numbers just right and make sure I spread my water out throughout the day.  Still can’t seem to stomach eating chicken or salmon before I go to bed so I’m saving peanut butter for my evening snack and that seems to do the trick.  I love having my 3 slices of low fat cheese for afternoon snack!  That fills me up more than a protein bar.  I love cheese!

I stopped taking Venom.  I just wanted to finish off what I had so I’m going to wait until the last month before the show to start taking it again.  I’m taking another supplement for my workouts now that’s natural.  It’s from Quixtar and it’s called Rhodiola 110.  Seems to work for me.  Gives me that extra boost when I’m feeling kind of sluggish.  This time around I’m not going to go crazy and spend all kinds of money on pills, creams, wraps and potions…lol.  OMG last time I think I took everything known to man.  I went broke getting ready for that show.  There’s seriously no need for it.  A multivitamin, BCAA’s, Calcium, Protein and a few other herbs and that’s about it this time. 

I’m really quite proud of myself.  Today the product managers brought us some bribe food so we would get a bunch of jobs out for them today…pizza.  I think it was also they’re little way of saying work through your lunch….ummmm….yeah, I don’t think so!  I told my boss I’m not sitting there smelling that nasty pizza that I can’t even eat so I ate my yummy brown rice and ground turkey and got the hell out of there.

I’m so glad I didn’t eat that.  I got a look at Brenton’s slice and it was just piled high with cheese and it had a pool of cheese oil on top….nasty!  My stomach just can’t take that kind of food anymore.  So later on in the afternoon as they were all falling asleep at their desks my boss says next time they want us to do rush jobs they should bring us some Red Bull instead.

I had a little setback this week.  I had to deal with some personal crap at home…as usual.  Only this time I had to take more drastic measures.  Sometimes you have to go over the top to prove your point.  So I haven’t been to the gym since Monday and my diet on Wednesday and Thursday just didn’t happen.  I was eating on the run so to speak.  Needless to say I had no sleep for 4 days but man did I sleep good last night.

I gained a few pounds but I’m sure it’s only water because I was eating mostly carbs and probably alot of salt too.  But I’m back on track today.  I’m actually not even hungry today and eating only because I’m supposed to be.  I’ll be back in the gym tonight and training for 4 days and take a day off Tuesday.  I need to play a little catch up now.

I’m not stressing about it at all.  I’m taking Calm and Calmer again.  It seems to be helping me with my diet because it’s supposed to help with stress and stress causes me to eat.  I really need to focus on my diet and make sure I get enough sleep so I can be in good shape to train hard.