Halloween time!

Howdy all my wonderful friends in blog land. I know I don't blog much but just had an extra second and thought I would at least post something. It is October! My favorite month because I love Halloween. The weather is wonderful this time of year and things are starting to settle down at least somewhat. I have been going pretty non stop. I am posting a pic of my costume for this year minus the long blonde wig. I still have to get one but my outfit came today and I am hoping that back in the hippie days high waters were in:0 I have it pulled way down and I am sticking my butt way out, just for the record. I have like 3 shirts on underneath because I put it on over my work clothes so it is a little bunched up. I will sweak it a bit and it will be fabulous.



On the fitness front, things are great. I am still working out at 4am like a crazy person. I am tired by 6pm. My diet is good but this weekend I did not do so great. I am usually a lot more disciplined that I was. I think it was stress of building a house, or NOT! Long story for another day of blogging when I have more time. I am running my 3rd 5k for the year and my last one for this year on Saturday. I will keep you posted.

About that time again

Well since I have gotten used to never posting I guess it is about time I posted something on here. A few updates...... Still using Mike Davies as my trainer and I love him an will probably always use him. You just know it when you find the one, kind of like a great pair of shoes! LOL! Well, since the race pics above, I actually ran another race and would have probably done better than the first had one of my students not fallen just at my heels. I figure if I did not stop and help him it would really look bad on my part and to tell you the truth I thought I could make up the time. I was wrong. I came in right at 30 min which is bad for me. I am doing Race For the Cure in October and that is another "just for fun with friends" kind of thing and then that will be it. I have had a really good off season so far but mentally I have struggled with gaining what normally is a "normal" amount of weight. I think when you have tiny clothes you fit into a few months out of the year it is really mentally challenging when they don't fit the rest of the time. That has been really hard for me! So much so that I emailed Mike and told him I was too fluffy and it was causing me to be depressed and I was leaving on vacation in just under 12 wks and was not bikini worthy. So, I got my wish. I am now on a leaning diet. Let me tell you, after being back on strict dieting I have decided that I need to be careful what I wish for and work on my mental attitude. I truly was working on it but it became too exhausting. I just said screw it I cannot stand this feeling as if nothing fits. Let me just tell you, I followed the before off season diet to a T and took my allowed cheats and I still felt huge but I was getting things that I have never allowed myself in my entire life so what is my mental state suppose to be? Supportive? I think not, not when you are getting things like, steak, mixed nuts, yes the PLANTERS kind, dried apricots and a ton of other things! It was the best diet ever! Well now after sending him pics I am ordered to do 2 cardio sessions a day.I knew I should not have sent the bootie pick:0

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!