Did you ever wonder how some people get so much accomplished in one day and then others (me) cant seem to ever get it together?
I try and organize myself and to do what I need to do but there never seems to be enough time in the day or I am just always tired and don’t feel like doing what I need to do!
All you ladies out there that do competitions and have kids....I SO APPLAUD you! I know I have said it before but man.....you are all amazing!!!!
Anyway....last night I got my hair cut....I like it so far...I usually get aggravated after I wash it cause I cant get it the way they do...so we shall see...then I came home and did 45 min on the treadmill...I soooo did not want to get on that damn thing.....I wasn’t going to but I made myself....and I was glad that I did but it still sucks sometimes...LOL!
I didn’t get up for EMC this morning but I will be doing it when I get home.
Jodi—I try and break up my cardio into 2, 30-40 minute sessions so I don’t have to do it all at night. I am supposed to be doing an hour a day on top of my weight workout and it helps to break it up :)
Adam went to dinner with his friends last night...I was invited to go but of course I couldn’t. I think this is part of the problem with competing....you cant be “normal” and just go out and have a good time and not worry about every meal...and I was getting upset over it last night and when Adam came home I was all snippy with him because of it. He kept telling me to stop looking at what I am doing as a punishment and that I am missing out on things and to look at it as a positive thing and how I am bettering myself trying to achieve my goal....why cant I be like that all the time and just think that way??? I know I get down on myself all the time and I need to stop doing it.
Another example....next week my friends are all getting together for dinner at this really really good italian restaurant.....and I have to pass up everything and just have my grilled chicken and veggies. I should actually be applauding myself and thinking how far I have come not eating the bread in the basket and not gorging myself with pasta and dessert.....but I always look at it as im being left out....then I think about how that damn bread basket got me in the situation that I am in right now so there is no way im going to cave in and eat that crap! It goes back and forth constantly in my mind....its horrible!!
Well I just have to keep on keepin on and do my best! I just want to be tight and tiny and cut...is that too much to ask???
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I hear you girl. I have nothing else to say other than you are spot on with your negetive (AND POSTITIVE) thoughts on comp. Adam was right, you've got to stop looking at it as punishment, but rather a lifestyle you chose...and just reap the rewards of the hot body you are building...
We all feel that way sometimes. I had many girls dinners with friends and I had to sit there and order salad with a plain chic breast, while they ate bread and drank wine...but other than a few min. of suffering, the dinner and time spent with them was still worth it, and I was happy I stuck to my guns at the end of the night.
Yanno?
I think it's really important that you get to a place where you can go to all of these places and not be tempted. My new thing thanks to one of Tony's status thingy's is I go around and say to the cookies and cakes...can't touch this :) Yeah I'm singing MS Hammer to the food....a spin off of what Tony said...it's my own flare :) It works!!! And get a fabulous lunch bag...anything really that you like to carry around to put all your food in and when people ask you...tell them I'm a figure competitor....what's that they will ask...suddenly you will become very interesting...then they will tell you I could never eat like that....and you can say to yourself...well you could but you choose not to...I choose the body...you choose the food.
For what it's worth...that's just a little of what I've learned works for me...we are figure competitors...live, eat, and breath it...if you want it!!!!! But hiding out...it doesn't work...this is your life...share it with others, it's okay to be different...that makes you interesting :)
And get on that damn treadmill girl :) I will be soon too!!
I use to be like this too...okay still am. If you don't stress too much about it then you don't want it as bad. I know it sounds weird but I swear it works!
i think we all go through that. at the end of the day you just have to weigh your options. do you want to be included and have an average looking body? or do you want to enjoy the time with your friends, maybe not eat the greatest meal ever, but look ROCKIN in a swim suit? its tough, but hang in there. i do the same thing!
It's not forever.. just during contest prep. The food will wait for you. It won't go anywhere, I promise.
~C.
Oh yeah--I hear you about breakin' it all up. Cardio is just so hard to do after you are mentally worn out from work or school work...I more than know what you're dealin' with there. I don't know how people compete w/ kids either. MAN O MAN! I couldn't that's for sure...not at all.
Have you ever thought about joining a NEW gym just to get your motivation back? I really have mine back right now...man, its intense... I just started at our new anytime fitness here in town and its like making me excited about training once again...so great I tell you what. :)
Only advice I have is to focus on the training that you like to do and do it only and dont force yourself to do stuff you hate because all that does is make you hate working out...THE WHOLE REASON we do the competitions is because we enjoyed working out at one point in time. so, if I dont like training something--I don't. I find a loophole. There are tons of those. Sure you gotta be dedicated but you CAN be dedicated by doing things you REALLY enjoy rather than forcing yourself to do somethings you just dont want to. If that makes any sense.
Try zumba or something for cardio...its 1 hour long in some classes and it seriously seems like 10 or 15 minutes!!! Its so great. And most gyms have morning/afternoon/evening classes so you could do one or two! :D If you do end up trying it let me know what you think of it. I love it!!!
I actually did 110 minutes of cardio today because I did one zumba class (60 mins) and two junky sessions of elliptical...so its like easy to rack up the cardio if you do Zumba in there. I think you'd like it!
Oh and don't worry, you're not the only one annoyed with diet/training right now--I've actually started my prep this week--fun fun. I'm starving. lol.
It might seem difficult to have to pass up on certain social engagements, but then all the best athletes do it too.
You shouldn't get upset, because of what you have achieved and what you CAN achieve from all of this.
You have changed your life, and changed your future. You have done so much in the last 18 months, to better yourself.
You are a beautiful, healthy, married Lady athlete, and you have grown as a person, such a lot in that time, and the changes and achievement, are as invaluable for you, as a person like you is to society and the world.
So you should always be proud of yourself for what you have done, and for being who you are. In this troubled world we live in, to have people like you, not necessarily doing anything groundbreaking, but being very "human", makes a small but DEFINITELY positive difference.
You will improve on what you did last year, there is no question of that, you just need to keep believing in it, and try not to be too hard on yourself.
So GOOD LUCK, keep your chin up, and keep pushing forwards.
:-) :-).
Matt
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