Body Project

I have looked back to last December when my wife said those famous words, "You look good from the neck up!".  And I remember tipping the scales in November and December at the doctors office at between 248 and 250+ when I was there multiple times for being sick.  My wife was right, I looked like pure T shite.  I got pissed and dropped to 203.2 by May and got happy.  I was so close to having abs, but had been cutting for 5-6 months and was so proud of where I had come from, that I got complacent.  Now I am happy with the size I have put on, the strength I have gained, and knowing that I changed my lifestyle and have maintained my weight between 203 and 210 since May.  But I am ready to push towards abs before I start bulking.  I want to have a six pack, not worried about being extremly low BF, but enough to see the abs come out.  If nothing else, my body should be ready for the change to calorie cutting  and some cardio and weight drop again.  I am hoping by the end of the year to be at abs, and then bulk from Jan 2009 to March.  After that, I want to stay with abs thru the summer and try to gain some clean size, even if it is not a lot.  I am also still working on my book and my website.  I hope to get the book ready and sell it online for a few bucks, if nothing else to get my family to a better place financially while at the same time helping someone get motivated by my story of transformation and life.  The website, www.lostmybelly.com will be my way of selling my little book and providing a personal blog, photos, and get more detailed on foods, and supplements that I like to use.  That is about it for now.  I am glad to have this community and motivation to draw from.  Good luck to every one out there that is training your a$$ off to be a better you.

It sucks getting older!  I am only 39, but man things that hurt now compared to 10 years ago, what a difference.  I got past my shoulder injury in August, and have been cruising along and increasing my weights in my w/o’s, and now my left elbow is flaring up again.  I may have to just suck it up and take a week off to let it rest.  On top of that, my right hand is still only around 70% from my bike wreck 3 weeks ago.  I may have to go get it checked if it does not heal soon.  I have very little grip, and that is not good when holding an 80# dumb bell over your face doing incline press.  My leg strength is coming along and my squats are going up.  I am still leary about my knees after 2 surgeries on my right knee for miniscus tears, but I have worked a better part of the year doing extensions and curls to strengthen my knees before going back to squats.  I also start each leg w/o with 4-6 sets of extensions and curls to pre exhaust and get nice and warmed up.  Aside from that, no going below parallel, or getting really deep.  I am up to 5 dead hang pull ups, which hurts my elbow for right now so that goes back to maybe taking a rest week.  Bulking continues until December 1, then 1 month of cutting and laying off my supps to clear my body out.  Then back into heavy bulk January thru March 2009.  More later.