lorelei729’s BodyBlog

This week was a lot less planned and a lot more cravings.  I never ate anything that wasn’t clean, but I added a few extra foods on days that I felt especially hungry.  I slacked off after tuesday and only planned out my meals in fitday at the beginning of the week.  Once again, I really do follow it when I plan my meals, so I must continue to do so.  I ended up losing a 1/2 lb on the scale this week, so I will be continuing to track myself here and on fitday, as well as noting when I seem to be more hungry after eating and when I am more satisfied.

One week after weighing in at 144 lbs, I have changed my diet to a carb cycling diet-which I followed to a "T", and exercised four times this week as I had planned.  I stepped on the scale this morning and weighed only 139 lbs!!  At first it alarmed me, I do not want to lose muscle, just fat.  But there are several factors that lead to a not-100% accurate wt loss from last week to this.

1) I was weighed on a different scale last week.

2) At a different time of day (noon, right before lunch vs. this morning before eating breakfast)

and finally 3) I was wearing pants and a shirt last week and this time just my undies..  ^_^
So, between these variables, I am still VERY pleased with the results, but will be extra careful that if it’s that much of a jump next week that I will adjust my diet so that I don’t lose weight too fast!

On saturday, October 3rd I went to see my first NPC competition.  Up until this time I have merely looked at pics online and dreamed about what it would be like to compete in some way.  Well, after finally seeing one in person I have a new desire to DO instead of just dream.  Starting this week I have tightened my diet to be way more clean that I have been.  I have re-evaluated my workout and kicked it up a notch.  I will be beginning by following a fat loss diet to get my weight to a much better area, then I will be contest training after that to build muscle.  To my disbelief, I stepped in the scale and I weighed 144 lbs, not too much higher, but more than I’d like.  I am beginning a carb cycling diet like this:

Mon, Wed, Fri: Low carb

Tues, Thurs, Sat: mod carb

Sunday: higher carb but still clean eating

I have also been tracking/pre-planning my meals in fitday so I am aware of how many calories I take in every day.

(I follow pre-planned meals very well)

My workouts are M,T, Th, F, with at least 20 min cardio in each session, saturday will be a random exercise class and Sunday is active rest day.

I’m still trying to decide, but I think that for my first competition I will do a bikini contest so that I can get the experience and then I plan to build more muscle and compete in a figure contest later.