Well I'm well underway on my journey. It's been very rewarding and challenging at the same time. My current weight is 133.8. I signed up for the 12 week transformation challenge on bodybuilding.com so in 3 weeks I will be getting professional "after" pictures done with my hair, makeup, tan, and extensions all done and my competition heels that I plan on buying the beginning of May or sooner if my state return comes back. I'm really excited to be dolled up and enjoy my hard work but I know it's not over. My competition is in November so I will still have a ways to go. It has been mostly smooth sailing except for my naughty binge I did. It was Easter weekend and we went out of town. When I was visiting it was all good, I kept up with my workout schedule and diet, but the trip was 9 hours so on the way back I didn't cheat and I got very cranky and moody. Then I got home and binged on reese's peanut butter cups. I emailed my trainer right away and told her so she did damage control and fixed the it. I've also been introduced to Purium products and I do plan on using 2 products in particular, the control meal which is a green meal with a chocolate flavor and Amino Acid Pattern tablets that I will be taking in place of Blox which I ran out of. There are 2 products from Beverly International that I'm interested in as well, the keto-7 and lean out but I'm going to hold out on those until I hit around 125-ish because then I will be within 8-10 pounds of my contest weight and I'm sure I will be presented with a whole new challenge. I like the rate at which I'm losing weight right now, it's not too much and it's not too little. I haven't posted any pics on here yet but when I have my transformation pic taken I will post it and the "before" pic so that you can see a 12 week difference.
One thing that will be changing is where I work out. I'm currently a member at the Y mainly because I have children and I wanted the convenience of a daycare area, but the more my routines evolve and change the more I'm finding out the limitations of it. I understand the mission statement of the Y and it's not to make it convenient for competitors. At our Y the cardio area is separated from the weight room, other than a few ellipticals in the weight area probably for warm up purposes. And you have to sign up for equipment so it becomes a challenge when you're doing circuits and you're supposed to do treadmill pushes in between weight training circuits. I got lucky and found Fitness Extreme right down the road from me. Here are the pros, however, I'm going tomorrow to take a tour of the facility and a week trial. But I've been emailing back and forth with the owner and this is what I like: he's a former competitor so he knows how crazy contest prep can get, there's 24 hour access so if I need to get up before my husband to get in morning cardio before he goes to work I can and when he gets off work I can get in my weight training. There is an area where kids can wait but it's not a daycare, but it's ok because I have more flexibility as far as hours go b/c of the 24 hour access. The layout is also open so I can move from machine to machine easier. And there's a designated plyo area so that's a major plus. I will post to let you know and post a pic of the new gym.
So anyway I will post again with some pics. Hope everyone has a great blessed week!
