nic902’s BodyBlog

i may have had a little slip up with my diet on christmas but i didnt miss a workout! i actually trained really well…and felt really good. as i figured the gym was extremely crowded! i cant wait until after new years when everyones back in school and i have the gym all to myself again

oh yeah…after all my blogs/rants about everything i pigged out on, i forgot to mention all the wonderful gifts i got for christmas! i got lots of fun fitness things my momma got me a new cooler bag, so i can never miss a meal and a kick ass digital food scale that even tells ya nutritional info!!! she also gave me a new organizer…i’m very type ‘a’ so i love to write all my workouts and macros for the day! i finally got new lifting gloves…because as my bro puts it i have ‘man hands’ i also started reading the eat clean diet workout book…i didnt even know it was out yet so i was very surprised to get it. but my most favorite gift was a dumbell toggle necklace from gymgems.com…its so pretty, i love it!

i hope everyone has a happy and safe new year! im hungry…gotta go eat! :p

i had a really great holiday and i hope everyone else did too! even though it was fun, i’m happy its over. i am a creature of habit and i love routine, so its good to be back to normal. i made it through my first two dinners without pigging out but damn three was just too much for me to say ‘no’ to. christmas dinner at my parents house was delicious. maybe because it was my mommas cooking, i had no will power left and i just eat everything and anything possible! i felt horrible!!! my tummy was killing me and i felt so yucky…sluggish! i still felt kinda crappy today, but i made it to the gym and had a great workout. i’m really glad i gave into temptations the way i did because it really refreshed my memory as to why i dont eat like that anymore. it may taste good but i just dont like the way it makes me feel. i’m back to eating clean and i feel 100x better plus i hit the gym with a vengence today!

now allow me to get serious for a sec…i never really gave much thought about being a role model…but apparently i am. on christmas i hung with my neice all day. she is six years old and wants to be just like me. my bro is worried because she wants to be a ‘rock star like aunt nic’ she never left my side all day, whatever i did she did. i dont have kids (nor do i want any) but i do know that they pick up on things so you have to watch what you say. ya know, keep things ‘G’ rated. well, after all my eating i was showing my mom my ‘fat’ belly. i was bloated and she was teasing me. my neice was sitting next to me and lifted her shirt to show me her ‘fat’ belly. i was like ‘no, no, no’ and told her how beautiful she is. this is not the first time she has mentioned it. its so sad that a six year old even knows what fat its. my bros used to tease me about being chubby when i was little and i have always had body image issues. so anytime she says anything negative about herself i try to squash it right away. i’m writing this lil’ story because i hope people will realize that kids are not as oblivious as you would think. things that are said in there presence (even when not directed at them) do make an impression.

well now thats enough of that! thankfully the holidays are over and i can focus on having an amazing 2008!

well today my christmas holiday officially started. i got up bright and early to hit the gym! i had to make some tweaks to training because of the holiday so today i did legs, abs and tris then finished up with some cardio. i really busted my ass today and ate pretty well. i had to go to a family dinner tonight and i knew i wouldnt be able to eat perfectly ‘clean’. i ate as i normally would throughout the day with the exception of dinner. there really wasnt anything healthy to eat so i just ate very little…i had 1 piece of chicken (breaded and fried!!!) and about a palm sized portion of mashed potatoes. it was delicious!!! i ate just enough to ‘celebrate’ with everyone…yet not over indulge. well, for some reason people just cant keep comments to themselves. literally the second i went to help myself it all started ‘oh, your eating’ ‘can you have that’ ‘oh no thats not good for you’ ‘why arent you having this or that’ what f-ing business is it of yours??? i just smiled and let it roll right off my back. but seriously why do people think i owe them any kind of explanation??? why do they even care??? now, i took the high road but i could have just said ‘no i wont eat that because i dont wanna look like you!’ but no…that would make me a bitch. i just dont see why people feel the need to run their mouths.

well, i have another dinner tomarrow night and hopefully that will be a little less annoying

what a week it has been…and its not even over yet! i just quit wrapping presents and i’m exhausted (i’m not finished yet!!!). tomarrow i’m going to start my baking….cookies, brownies and chocolate covered pretzels! i’m using every ounce of will power i have not to eat any if it! i know a lot of people will say to just have one and all that crap but it’s really just not worth it to me. i have goals to achieve and i dont want to get off track. now, with that being said, i have every intention of enjoying a great xmas dinner at my parents house…i just dont need to go crazy with the junk like everyone else i know i have actually 3 dinners to go to for xmas (sun, mon and tues!) i will eat as healthy and sensible as i can at the first two and eat what i want for the third. the gym is closed on tuesday so that will be my ‘off’ day this week. i fully intend to get in some really great workouts to make sure my body will be using all the food i’ll be eating

i had some really kick ass workouts this week…increasing weight, supersetting ect. my only complaint was that the gym was so freaking crowded! i workout at about 12:30pm so its usually quite empty but apparently with high school/college breaks everyone has decided to go to the gym…unfortunately they are doing more yapping and giggling than actual sweating!

well…i hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! enjoy everything in moderation…and have fun!

oh yeah…my phillies signed geoff jenkins and chad durbin! well, that really put us over the top…world series here we come! are ya feelin my sarcasm  they were not exactly the guys on my wish list!

today was another one of those days when i just should have never left the gym because the day just headed downhill. i had a really great workout…leg day! i’ve started adding weight to my bulgarian squats because i FINALLY have my balance down! damn i love them…they really kill my legs! after my workout, a trainer at the gym approached me to tell me how great i look. she complimented me on my training split and how hard i work…it was really nice to hear that from someone that actually knows what they are talking about. when my family or friends say things, it really doesnt matter because they usually just say ‘oh, you’re not fat…you look fine’ so it was really great to hear from ‘a professional’ so here i am, feeling all confident…in a great mood and i get rear ended at a red light on my way home! OMG….wanna talk about road rage?? i almost yanked this bitch out of her car and f-ing killed her! she was like ‘oops…sorry’ are you f-ing kidding me? sorry? then after that mess was over, i get home and my brothers dog is sick and puking all over my house! so i’ve been cleaning up after him all day!

sometimes i wish i never left the gym…my happy place

 oh yeah…aaron rowand signed with the giants today! i really wanted him to resign with the phillies but i cant blame them for not giving him a 5year 60mil deal! i like him but he’s just not worth that IMO. then when we are stuck with an old, overpaid, untradeable player (bell, lieberthal, burrell..need i say more) we’d be kicking ourselves! there’s still alot of time left in the offseason so that leaves plenty of time for upgrades (3rdbase, cf/rf and pitching!). i’m not giving up on my team yet!

well this morning i decided to finally take some new measurements. i can’t even remember the last time i took them. i try not to get too bummed about the numbers i don’t like or too excited about the ones i do because i have trouble remembering where i exactly put the measuring tape last time so the difference may be off. i also don’t really know where i’m ’supposed’ to measure…i did the fullest point if each body part (hips, thighs, calves…ect). i also did my bodyfat….i have no clue how accurate it really is. i used the 1-site calipers and came up with 16%(my scale says 20%)…i figure even if the number is not correct it really doesn’t matter because i can just use it as a way to gauge my progress.

i have also learned (well, still learning) to not put too much stock in the number on the scale. i feel that by all of the pics i’ve taken over the year, i have made great progress. in january i posted my very first pics…which i hated! i weighed 109lbs (my lowest weight) but i though i was fat. through the year i have gained some weight (up to 125 @ one point). i weighed myself this morning and was at 111.6 (before eating or drinking anything). i cant believe i’m a few pounds heavier than my first pics but yet i think i look 100x better…isn’t it amazing what a lil’ muscle can do!

well…after checking all those crazy numbers this morning i went to the gym and got an great workout! i was so motivated i could have moved a mountain…ok not literally but ya know what i mean

yep…woke up this morning with a wicked migrane not the ‘good’ kind of sick feeling i had after my last leg day i knew it was going to happen, i went to bed at 10:30 last night because i felt lightheaded. so when i got up today i felt dizzy and nauseous…but after a couple of hours of falling back to sleep and fighting with myself i decided to attempt to go to the gym anyway. wow what a stupid move that was. i made a sad effort to do legs today. i started with a light 15min warm up on the stepper then went over to do squats, lunges and all that good stuff but i had literally no strength in my body. i managed to get through the leg workout but it was not nearly the amount of weight i normally use. i then skipped hitting my abs and didnt do any cardio (aside from my warmup). so i left the gym feeling like shit and feeling bummed because i had such an awful workout that i probably should not have even gotton out of bed. i had to force my PWO meal down…i normally chug it because i love it so much! i struggled making sure i got all my meals in too. then, i’m worried that i ate too much since i didnt ‘really’ workout i finally started feeling better late this afternoon, so i started arguing with myself again about whether or not i should get my ass on the treadmill…i decided against it. i’ve convinced myself that one shitty day is not going to make or break me and tomarrow i just have to hit the gym with the same intensity as usual! (maybe a little extra oomph!)

well, i’m feeling better now…i kinda feel like i have a hangover, which is 100x better than i felt this morning! i’m sure that tomarrow will be a much better day