smorgan1227’s BodyBlog

I have had to ask myself lately why I am on bodybuilding.com.  The conclusion I have come to is that I love the encouragement and motivation.  The attention is wonderful.  However, it is not something I need.  I am lucky to have a wonderful husband who loves me at any stage of my development.  I do however, love the shared passion for lifting and growing muscles.

Why is it so easy to get caught up in the panty shots?  Why do people who are married sell their bodies for free on here?  Are we that desperate for attention?  Do we want people to fantasize about having sex with us?  Personally I think muscles are beautiful on a man or woman.  Like a peace of artwork to be admired and awed over.  I am proud of each fat % that I can drop, and each pound of muscle that I can gain.  It comes with sweat and at times pain.  I find power, determination, fulfillment and satisfaction at the completion of goals.

So I just want to say thank you for all the support and friendships.  I am sorry if I will disappoint with my lack of blatently provocative pictures.  I am toning the world down in my corner and focusing on the purity of strength and beauty of muscles.  I don’t have anything against the pantie shot!  Just against me doing them, lol…

I had three women ask me for help with machines and such at the gym today.  It felt so good to give them encouragement.  I don’t think I would want to be a trainer, but that was just great!

Ok, so the low carb thing didn’t work for me.  My workouts sucked, and I got the flue.  I decided that I would try carb cycling.  My photo shoot is only less than a week away.  I don’t care.  I will go through two cycles by then.   Lets see if it works with my body.  I do not only care about losing fat, but keeping my health and energy is more important to me at this phase in my life.

Ok, I went back to oatmeal in the morning just to make my tummy happy.   So, I am not completely no carbing it.   I am now a week away from the shoot.  Should I be eating much salt?  I sweat a lot.  I usually don’t worry about salt.  Perhaps this week I will cut back on my salt intake.

First, I have been low carbing it for the past five days.  Great for losing leaning out, very bad for working out.  So today I decided that I would try going to the gym before eating.  You know, the whole workout before you eat and you get 100% fat burn.  Well, you also get lite headed and pathetic.  I will not go to do a weight workout without eating.  Maybe a run would be ok, but not lifting weights.  I had about three spells where I thought I was going down from being dizzy.  Not to mention I didn’t get a good workout.  That sucks!  Well, I tried it….