My Off Season

I am loving this off season, I get to eat more and workouts are fun and not so sticking grueling. I keep thinking I could just live on off season for the rest of my life but I love my new trainer so much and I see changes daily so I know that he can do a lot for me and I want to see just how far I can go after using him through my off season. I think I will be the best I have been so far. I am diggin the food I get, Peanut butter, mixed nuts and all kinds of great stuff. What is so nice is that I am staying lean, I am fuller but lean! I am hoping to put on some more muscle especially in my legs.

I ran a 5k on Saturday for fun and ran with a friend. Long story short, she got a cramp, I did not want to leave her so I ended up finishing in 29.10 which sucks but I did get 3rd in my age group. I so could have had 1st! I just signed up for another one this Saturday, wow what am I thinking? I just really enjoy them, they are not too far although I could have turned around and went back to the start last Saturday. It is this wonderful diet! I have so much energy all the time. Thanks to my acupuncturist I am sleeping like a baby too. School is a lot less stressful as well, smaller classes, better schedule and I stay away from the mean people. So life is good at the moment.

Here are a few pics from the race. Oh and I look preggo in that shirt, it was too big just so you know. I guess you can see my hair extensions, sorta.

Warning! very boring

This is why I don't post much anymore. My life is BORING! School has started, I love my schedule, love my classes and they are actually smaller. I have only 18 in some of my classes. That is huge considering I am used to having 35 or more. We added Art so it made our classes smaller due to splitting the kids up for rotation.

I have actually been super busy, training and working mostly but still busy. Dave is back out of town and probably will be for several months. He has been having to work some weekends too and it is putting a damper on our weekends.

Training has been great! I hope I am putting on muscle because I am starting to look "fuller" my little clothes are now snug which is fine I guess. I have to do a self talk to myself everyday so I will realize I am on offseason and this is what happens. Then the thought of, "what if I don't want to compete next year" comes up and I start thinking maybe I should not even be doing this but then what else would I do? I love it but I am just not ready to diet strict right now. I enjoy my 2 cheats a week. It is perfect for me and keeps me on track. I can tell I am losing bodyfat but at the same time getting fuller. Does that make sense?

If I told you everything I eat you would not believe me but I am sure it is way over 2500-3000 calories a day. I feel like that is all I ever do. I don't cheat unless it is my authorized cheat meal. I usually take one on Friday night and one on Saturday night since that is when Dave and I like to cook or go out.

I have been training for a 5k so that may be why I am getting so much food but either way I like it. My race is this Saturday but I am a little worried. I did a trial run yesterday and got to about to the 2 1/2 mark and my groin started killing me. I immediatly stopped running so I would not injure it anymore then it dawned on me, this is what happened last year! When I would run it would be around mile 2 or so that it would start to hurt. I am icing it and stretching it in hopes I still get to run on Saturday. Wish me luck.

I have finally come to the conclusion that........

I have finally come to the conclusion that I am freakin high maintenance. I swear the older you get the more there is to keep up. Sorry I have not blogged in so long but I was busy having a fantastic summer. I am so proud of myself and my food this summer. If you have been reading my blog for very long then you will know how hard summers are for me. I have stuck to my off season diet and kept my weight under a 5 lb gain after my June 6th comp but now I am up probably about 8 lbs or more but it is all good because it is what my trainer is telling me to do. I cannot believe how much food I have to eat though. I am training for a 5k though on Aug 29th and I cannot help but think that is why he has me eating so much food. Okay, now back to my high maintenance issues. Well I got hair extensions, yes the real deal. You can wash it, dry it and style it anyway you want, swim in it. It is actually real hair and I love it. I cannot grow my hair long, I have to cut before it gets to that point because of breakage. So, here I am with this hair which has added to the list of many things I have to maintain. I swear I am gonna need a 2nd job in another 10 yrs just to keep up. It is not cheap for a girl to look presentable. If you remember my shoe fetish you will understand when I tell you I have traded emotional eating for buying shoes, oh yow I ended up with 4 pairs of new running shoes before school started. It was then that I realized I had changed the eating for this. I was not upset just a little stressed over going back to school.

I have had a birthday (46), a 29th Wedding Anniversary which was yesterday and I have started back to school since I blogged last. I have been doing acupuncture and I am hooked but another maintenance issue but hey my Plantar Fasciitis is cured and I now sleep all night! I got new glasses, maintenace issue. I am serious the list just keeps growing. So now any free time I have seems to be to get nails, hair, or something else done. When along the way did I become a fru fru girl, a girlie girl? I was never like that, I was the biggest Tom Boy ever!

As far as competing goes, Mike is says that this off season diet and workout is going to change my body, sweet because I am tired of being ask if I do Figure or Fitness and not that those are bad I would love to be a Fitness girl but check out the age above, my bones are old and they will break. So we are going to change my body, that is enough to keep me on my off season diet. I am not sure about another show just yet, if I do decide to do another one it will probably be in April. I am just not ready and really am enjoying my life right now.

School is great, even though I am back at the same place I got a great schedule and my class size is a lot smaller this year since we added a Art class. I am thrilled with it all and it is going to be a good year. Hubby is out of town again and only home on weekends so I have all week to focus on my workouts and eating. It is so much easier when you don't have to worry about cooking for someone else.

Holy crap!

I just thought I could keep up with a blog! Time is flying by so fast and my summer is about to end. I am so sad. It feels like it just started. I thought I would update everyone on what is going on. It has been almost 2 months since my comp and I have only put on 5 lbs! I am so thrilled with myself because this is huge for me. I think I finally figured it all out. I have been on my after comp diet and doing pretty well although I did cheat more than I was suppose to. Hey it is summer and I have had lots of celebrating to do. I have enjoyed my share of margaritas that is for sure. I am renewing my workouts and getting a new diet next week so when school starts on the 10th, (my birthday which sucks)I will have a new workout regimen and new diets. I have just been so bored lately. If I must go back to work and have to be on a schedule I do really well with my diet so here we go, oh boy.

On the job front, still looking, keeping fingers crossed. It is never too late even after schools starts. I need to love my job again and I will someday.

Hubby has been home all summer and as of today he will be gone a lot. I am going to be lucky to see him once a week. That is another reason I do very well when school starts and he is out of town. I am on a tight schedule and there is not much cooking going on so how can I fail. I work, workout and sleep, that is about it. I will do this for the next 9 months and then vacation for 3. We do have a beach trip planned for December when I am out for Winter Break so that will be something to look forward to.

I have two friends who are competing next week and it was a show I thought long and hard about doing but decided to relax this summer. I am looking forward to cheering them on, one is figure and one is bb so I am pumped and hopefully it will light my fire again. I go back and forth, I want to compete, I don't, I want to, I don't. I really do want to. SEE! I did sell my black suit but only because I have worn it twice and want something different so that will be another expense on top of everything else.

I am so sore!

I am not talking from working out either! I had acupuncture done for the first time and let me tell you I thought I would die. I really do have a hi pain tolerance too. I had my daughter natural, no drugs at all and was in labor for 36 hrs. I have heard from several people that it does not hurt but it really did hurt me. Why? Was it because I was all tense when I walked in. I was a walking mess today. I felt shaky inside like my nerves where on edge. Things have been really great, workouts are great, eating is super and I feel really good other than I am having the same sleep problem again. I wake up a million times in the night and it makes me just exhausted by morning. I have only 3 weeks left until school starts and had pretty much decided I was going to go back and just stay focused and try not to sweat the small stuff until I did a really stupid thing this week. I was forwarding an email to my mom so she could read it, it was from my principle and so I went to my sent box and typed in the subject line, "devils lies" and when you are short on sleep you should really not be aloud to touch a send button because yes, that is what I did :( as if I needed anymore stress in my life at work. I suck! I spent the last two days stressing about it and I even owned up to it and told her it was intended for my mom and even though I was just being silly it REALLY looks bad and I am so not an evil person even though if I was going to be evil this would be the person I would want to be evil to, I am just sayin'

Thank you for all your post and emails about my last post, my feet! I am hoping the acupuncture helps although I did get a new pair of shoes, thanks Wendee! and it did make a huge difference. I have been doing cardio 6 x a week and still going crazy in the gym. I feel fit and lean. I still have a little bit of abs to show off and veins are crazy in my arms. This weekend is hubby's 30 year reunion and I think it will be fun. We went to school together in a small town so everyone knows everyone so I have lots of friends in his class as well. I am excited to see all of them!

Too old and ass cheeks.

I was reading an article somewhere I think, Glamour or something one day and there was a list of things you should not do if you are approaching 50. This list was not anything unusual you know, stuff like micro-minis and things like that. I can guarantee you that you will never see me in one of those even when I was 20. Anyway, the list included a nose ring and I have really thought about doing this. I think they are cute and I really wanted to get a small one so I guess the rebel in me said WHATEVER because I did it and I love it! It did not hurt at all either. No telling what I will do next! Someday when I am a grandma I am gonna have to explain the hole in my nose and the tatoo across my bikini line, LOL!

We went out with friends last weekend for dinner and then to a piano bar. It was a lot of fun but obviously we were the "older" ones in there. I mean there were some people that were probably a little older but not by much. We got there around 8pm so I guess that shows our age but around 11pm when I was ready to go so I could go to bed like old people do that is when the young crowd started showing up as if it was the beginning of their night. I remember doing that but now there is no way. I could never stay up that late. I guess the one thing that kind of blew my mind was the dresses that these 20 somethings are wearing, they are really tight and they are so short their ass cheeks hang out the back. These girls are not exactly petite either, they have cellulite and fat asses from the drive thrus this generation has grown up on. It is like nothing to them, a part of life I guess. All I know is, my jaw dropped when I saw their asses and the whole time I was thinking, I would look better in that dress than that 20 something but I of course would never dream of letting my ass cheeks hang out of anything.

On the diet and fitness front I am doing pretty well. My diet has been great but I think my body needs a rest with the workouts. I think I have taken 2 days off since my comp. I have so many little aches and pains and I know that it is my body screaming for me to rest. I am deaf and just do not want to admit it. My shoulder is still sore, my elbow is acting up for some strange reason, my knees are hurting, my feet are killing me (plantar FASHEEWHATER) and ever now and then I get muscle cramps like no other! You have to understand on top of all this I am doing some serious manual labor around my house. I will not bore you with the details but lets just say, I am working hard. The good news is I can do 3 unassisted chin ups now and that makes me feel like a real bad ass! I go around pulling up on everything now, because well, I can!

Flying!

The weeks are flying by these days and soon my summer will be over. I guess I have been trying so hard to suck every minute out of the days I have neglected my blog. I am such a bad girl. I had good intentions but oh well, I am enjoying myself more than ever. This has probably been the best summer ever. I have spent so much time with family and friends and I feel like I am on top of the world. I love summer more than anytime of the year even when it is super hot like it has been.

I just received my photos from the photographer and this one is my favorite because it really shows off my abs, well not so much on blogger but if you saw this in person I think you would would like it.

I am selling my black blinged out evening suit and figure if I compete again I want a new one anyway. I plan on possibly competing next year but want a new suit and a new routine to go with it.

Things are good on the fitness front. I am working out hard and my diet has been about 80%.I still can see my abs, not as much but they are still popping out. I love my shoulders and back and get lot of compliments on my arms, my ass not so much. That was the first place it started coming back and then it was the hips and that was trying really hard but I cannot stay on a comp diet year round so I am trying to get used to a little more junk in the trunk. I really need to buckle down though because hubby's reunion is at the end of July and that does give me some incentive.

Now, if I can just find the time to catch up on everyone else's blog! I miss everyone but cannot seem to fit everything in. I have been ask to join a team on tracker too and that is one more thing to keep up with but I think I will do it, kind of a mini challenge.