josiethefiend’s BodyBlog

Ah, it is so nice to watch the number on the scale moving down again.  So what if I get as excited now about .2 of a pound as I used to be about two  pounds.  Progress is progress, and I seem to be making a lot of it since I got back to calorie counting. 

Score.

I decided to try out Nectar protein, and I’m so in love.  It tastes better, has less calories, and I can mix it in plain water?  Sold.  I may even go back and buy another tub so I can have a variety of flavors.  I’m really that impressed.  I’ve also started taking CLA, but it would help if I could remember the damn stuff more than once a day.  Woops.  Finally, I’ve started cooking whole oats for breakfast every morning, and adding a scoop of the ON Cookies and Cream protein that I’m trying to hurry up and get rid of.  It’s pretty gross for drinking with milk, but seems to work alright in my oats.

As always, lifting continues to go well.  Miraculously, my boyfriend has suddenly decided to join me for my evening lifting sessions at the gym.  I’m more than a little surprised, and extremely excited to hopefully get him lifting consistantly.  I’ve also sneakily moved my ab work from the mornings to the evenings, so he will have to do it as well.  Call me selfish, but I’ve got dreams of a healthy, fit, six-pack man dancing through my head.  Heh. 

Now if I can just get him to lay off the buffets for lunch, I’ll have it made.

As for me, my stomach is shrinking finally, and starting to flatten out.  I’m using a notch on my belt that has never even seen a buckle before, and all of my pants are too big.  I’m totally daydreaming of posing suits by next year. 

Yesterday I did stiff-leg deadlifts at 120 lbs for ten reps.  I’m nearly bursting with pride.

I went up on all my Thursday lifts yesterday, and had overall the best workout in a long time.  45 lb shoulder presses, 90 lb lat pulls, ugh, it was awesome.  I feel so amazing today, with these tired but happy muscles reminding me all day of what I accomplished.  Then today is Bi’s and Tri’s, which is purely fun for me.  I get a kick out of doing burly bicep curls, pretending I’m out at muscle beach instead of in the stinky free-weight room.

Speaking of which, I’m currently gym shopping.  Not only do I feel like I’m kinda outgrowing my current gym (it doesn’t even have crash pads for doing cleans, lame), and it’s not a great one at all.  The oversold me on my membership, it’s not well cleaned or cleaned often enough, something is always broken (and it’s more often then not the air conditioning), and there’s duct tape and torn padding all over the place.  Yeah, it’s the most convenient location, but I think it’s time to move on.  My membership expires on the third, so I have a little time.

I’m kind of hoping to find a place with one of those neat sybex things I saw in "Getting Cut With Glass" last night.  So cool!  And those are great vids on Bodybuilding.com, btw.  I learned a lot, and now there’s some new lifts I want to try.  That reverse hack squat looks really neat, as did the shoulder presses from a full stop on the smith machine.

And just in case you were wondering, today is offically day four of successfully eating clean.  I have faith that I will be able to find a healthy dinner tonight.  I may have to get out my camera and do my best ChickenTuna impression to celebrate.

One final note, I’m considering incorporating creatine into my diet next week.  Now that I’ve gotten more serious about my diet, I’m willing to get more serious about my supplements.  About 3g a day seems to be the right dosage according to my research, maybe with 5g a day for the first three days, for a mini-loading.  That’s a happy medium between loading and not-loading, I think, since no one seems to agree about whether it’s necessary or not.