Sad, sad, sad....this is how I feel....

Ok, I'm a little depressed today, but I'm going to try not to be discouraged too bad. Below is a conversation on email that I had with Amy Peters about my contest date. She thinks pushing August might be too soon for me. :( So I guess I'm just going to have to start getting hardcore and push my training a little harder to reach that goal. We'll see I guess. But what also disappoints me, is apparently my scale is OFF. So all that excitement I had about body fat being below 20%? Yeah, it's probably not true at all. That blows. I mean seriously blows. So now I don't even know where I am at and need to get someone to take my body fat with calipers. ARGH.

My part of the conversation is in red (regular size text), and Amy's is in blue (all caps). Read it and weep:

The houston Pro/Am was what I wanted to do originally, and the date is up in the air right now because Jr Nationals are coming to Houston. So I have no idea when this show will be, but it was in August last year. There is also a Europa super show in Dallas in August and then a NPC show in San Antonio in September. WE WILL NEED TO WAIT ON THE DATE FOR THE HOUSTON PRO/AM NOT SURE WHEN IT WILL BE POSTED. I'M GOIN TO RECOMEND THE LATEST SHOW DATE FOR U, TO GIVE U AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE. UR BODYFAT NEEDS TO BE AROUND 16% AT 16WKS OUT (FUNNY HOW THOSE #S WORK OUT TO BE THE SAME, LOL) HOWEVER/UNFORTUNATELY UR BODYFAT SCALE IS OFF. AND I CAN'T EXPLAIN HOW/WHY THEY ARE JUST OFF. I'M JUST USING IT NOW AS A JUDGE OF PROGRESS NOT LOOKING AT THE ACTUAL #. JUST WATCHIN TO SEE HOW ITS CHANGING (% LOST) BUT I CAN LOOK AT U AND SOMEWHAT GUESS AS TO WHAT UR ACTUAL BODYFAT IS. I figure that I should probably be on a pre-contest diet for 16 weeks? Is that too long? Anyway, if I did a show in mid August that would mean I should start pre-contest around the end of April. Does that seem to soon? That would give me two more months of off-season training and dieting. I THINK APRIL MIGHT BE TOO SOON FOR U TO START UR PRE-CONTEST DIET. BUT WE'LL SEE WHAT UR BODY DOES IN THE NEXT 2MONTHS. I COULD BE WRONG. I'M CONFIDENT IN U. I JUST KNOW THAT TOO MANY PEOPLE RUSH THEIR CONTEST DATES, END UP STARVING, DOING MORE CARDIO THEN NEEDED TO MAKE THE DATE, INSTEAD OF WAITIN FOR A CONTEST LATER IN THE YR. THEN POTENTIALLY REBOUND AFTER THE CONTEST, LOOK BACK OVER ALL OF IT, WITHOUT FEELING AS IF THEY ACCOMPLISHED THEIR GOAL, OR END UP BEING HAPPY WITH WHAT THEY'VE DONE.