momof8’s BodyBlog

When I started  doing this whole body changing thing back in Feb., I weighed 165 pounds. While I am not a slave to the scale, I usually weigh myself every two to three weeks. Well….got on and found myself weighing 131!!!! Yipee!!!! I was so excited and now have only 6 more pounds to go before I hit my target weight. I am so happy and excited. There were moments of difficulty and some not so bad. But overall and only hitting one plateau for a few weeks, I truly didn’t find it all that difficult. Pound or two a week and I was satisfied. Can’t even begin to describe how I feel. When I hit my goal weight….notice I said when not if….my only concern is trying to figure out how to maintain that weight and not drop down anymore. Well I’ll figure it out. I figured a lot of other things out before. Thanks greatly to all those that have encouraged me and I hope to continue to do so.

As a rule, if I have questions about diet, training etc. I usually research it myself from whatever sources are available..and there is a multitude including here on this site. However, I have asked a couple of women questions here and they were answered promptly and efficiently. I do hesitate to ask too often for fear I might be thought foolish or naive or any other choice of adjective you might think of even though a good majority of you are well versed and knowledgeable in the above areas. Even with all my reading, I am stumped on this one. I weighed 165 pounds back in February and went down steadily, pound or two a week until I hit 147. I stayed at that weight for whatever reasons for about three weeks and yet I didn’t panic. I went ahead and continued doing what I had been doing , or if I altered something I wasn’ too aware of it and the weight began dropping again, same pattern as before until last week when I reached 131. I did weigh myself today and by the way, I usually only do that every two weeks and the scale registered 133. Hmmm..so, I began evaluating why. I don’t have a cheat day even from the beginning. Sometimes I will have a cheat something..meaning a salad dressing I don’t ever use or maybe a half bowl of a cream soup that’s not very healthy..you get the picture. I had started carb cycling and didn’t do as much cardio recently as I should’ve, isn’t the TOM either. As far as training, I’ve been lifting a lot heavier, alternating heavy and moderate workouts depending on how I feel and so forth. I don’t believe I’m obsessing just questioning. Is a couple of pounds here and there like this considered normal? I basically only have ten more to lose so is this usual for those last few pounds?  Any ideas, suggestions, comments and yes…even constructive criticisms will do nicely please.

I hope I’m not out of line here but I felt the need to comment on a blog I read a few days ago from what seemed to be a disgruntled blogger. The writer claimed that this site seemed to be too much like myspace and nobody answered your questions anyway. I beg to differ. Since I registered on this site, I have been encouraged, welcomed, and educated by some very kind people whom I’ve never even met! For example: two awesome ladies responded rather quickly back to me..one answered me back after I commented about her lost progress pics and she was encouraging..and the other responded to me twice with encouragement and nutritional info. I don’t communicate much here as I don’t want to labeled an interloper, and I really don’t know anyone, but after a long day of taking care of kids, household duties and much errand running, its a pleasure to sit down in the evening and read what others have to say. From what I’ve read, these people here are funny, entertaining, serious, supportive, intense, and sometimes even sad, frustrated or dramatic at times. But one constant remains the same..when someone needs something no matter what it is, there always appears to be someone close at hand to fulfill that need. So..I’m not quite sure what the bloggers issue was…maybe a bad day, tired whatever..give the writer the benefit of the doubt..my suggestion therefore is maybe you should try giving someone another opportunity to answer your inquiries and not pass judgement on those that have only your best intentions at heart. It’s not always about you. Have a great day and thank you again to those who have welcomed me, encouraged and educated me! Hope to hear from you soon!

Finished my arm and ab workout a little bit ago. As I sit here evaluating how I thought I did, the one thought that entered my mind was thank God tomorrow is a full rest day. My mind and body is tired. It’s been or seemed to be a long week. There was a time and sometimes still is when I feel just a little modicum of guilt for thinking that. Beside the usual reasons for having a full rest day…at least from a physical  standpoint…overtraining, risk of injury, etc. one may need a break emotionally as well, at least I do. I guess what I’m trying to articulate here and not doing a very good job of it is…because I’m happy that tomorrow is a rest day that doesn’t mean in any way that I don’t relish being down in my gym…but simply means that I enjoy my rest days for what they are and I should not for any reason live with a guilty conscience. After all, the good Lord rested after a hard week of work…good enough for me!

Never blogged before so this is my first time…obviously. Actually kind of scared since I’m an extremely private person. I actually have journaled pretty much my whole life..the written word…but that’s very different as you are the only one who reads what you wrote and those writings and thoughts are yours to share..or not. Here, you do have an option to share as well..but..to a whole lot more and diverse crowd. You leave yourself wide open to scrutiny..though maybe not in a bad way. I really don’t know. I see and read so many people who have written about their training, eating habits and failures and yet they seem to have no fear or trepidation about posting their thoughts and exposing themselves for all or any to see. Apparently I’m attempting to do so myself or I wouldn’t be sitting here typing at this very moment. Believe it or not, I’m actually very happy with how far I’ve progressed..everything is moving steady, not fast and my logic in that is it took me many years of bad life and health choices to be where I was, it will take me quite a while to get where I should be. I’m if nothing else, patient and patience reaps its own rewards. If I wrestle with anything, I think its because of my age that I don’t recover as well as some I’ve read about. While I do get sore and tired at times, there are moments where I seem to be really fatigued and too sore or sore all the time ..even to just breathe. Someone suggested I may be overtraining but I honestly don’t believe so. I do train five days a week, one body part a day, with ab training three to four days a week, and moderate cardio anywhere from two to four days a week. Take my supplements faithfully, eat very clean and rest. I’ve taken off nine days since I began training in Feb. I’ve read some people take off a week every three months or so to give their body a rest. I realize this is a personal thing and doesn’t apply to everyone. I’m due to take off a week in Sept. of course it’ll be the week when the kids go back to school. I guess I had just assumed for me being older that more rest and recovery may be required. Whoa!!! I think I got carried away on this blogging thing. Apparently my hesitancy is a thing of the past. Sorry!!!

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