smorgan1227’s BodyBlog

Did I get your attention.  Well, it isn’t that great, but when you have been eating clean for 9 months everything starts to taste really good.

I am soooo excited.  I got my competition suit today.  Actually a friend gave me three to try.  Two were black and pretty plain. One was pink with a few jewels.  i really didn’t think I was going to like the pink one, but I love it.  I am going to put some more jewels on it.  Soon my posing practice will be in my new suit. new to me,  yippeee…

Today I decided to go for a run before I ate.  I have read many articles in regards to the fat burning aspects of running on an early morning empty stomach!

So this morning I rose early and put on SEVERAL layers.  Dawned my Controlled Labs Beanie, and my gloves, hooked up my doggy and headed out the door.  Holy Cow!!!! That was hard to stay motivated through.

I was so thankful to have my dog, because she had something to eat and couldn’t understand my sluggishness. I ran for about 20 minutes, and walked an additional ten minutes.  The whole time I just kept telling myself, you better get used to this girly, because this is what it takes to be a winner.  It won’t be my last early morning run.  I pray they are not always so hard.  Maybe next time I will at least have a cup of coffee first.

While doing my long hours of cardio (walking the dog with my daugher)  We passed a restaurant.  My daughter read the sign on the side that said "Happy Hour 3-8"  Her question was, "what is happy hour and why is it five hours long?"  I laughed and explained to her that when people get off work, often times they will stop on their way home to have a drink and relax before they go home.  That is referred to as happy hour.

My daughter laughed adn said "wow, I think dad needs to do that".  I laughed and told her there were many days in my past that I often participated in happy hour.  Unfortunately it usually turned into happy night.

These days my happy hour is the hour I spend at the gym.  There is no better way to de-stress than to pump some iron.  Besides, there is also no worries about not going home for 5 hours, lol…

Today I had practice posing and progress pictures with c_nicki from bodyspace.  Look her up.  Not only is she an awesome makeup artist, personal trainer, fashion expert, she is also a great friend. She was meeting with my brother today to do progress pictures.  My daughter and I met her to take pictures too.  She really helped me with my posing.  We will both be competing at the May 9, 2009 NPC show in Hayward.  We are competing buddies.  For today we were just posers… lol..
When we were all done taking pictures of ourselves scantly clad, we had a little fun just shooting fun fashion pictures.  I can’t wait to post some of them.

It was a good day.  Always is a good day spent with my brother.