Sorry if anyone is regularly checking this and I have not been posting anything useful. I actually have quite a few updates and so this may get a little boring...
1. I have a friend, (who will remain anonymous because I don't know that she wants me sharing her business with the world), who pleasantly surprised me the last couple weeks with asking me for help. She wanted some advice about her diet. I had her tell me about it and what she is doing and tried to see if I could figure out why it's not working. I had quite a few suggestions. Long story short...she told me this week that I should try to figure out how to hand out nutritional info on the side. I'm not a nutritionist people! But I sure was complimented by that! My response was "let me win a trophy and then we will see if I have enough credibility"....a special "thanks" to this friend of mine for making me feel useful and actually believing that I could help other people too.
2. I've been trying to crack the code on my scale. If any of you ever buy a scale that has a body fat indicator...look out!!!! This is not an accurate measurement. However, I am trying to figure out what kind of standard deviation we are talking about here! I mean, when I started out, it tended to read low. About 3% off. That was obvious even from my pics. (If you look back at older pics you will see where I thought I was like 21% and I'm so obviously NOT). Now, I took my body fat measurements last week and was 18% on Wednesday. Today and yesterday my scale has spit out a whopping 16.5%!!!! So, if we all believe that I lost say 0.5% body fat from last week, then the scale is only reading about 1% off. Interesting. I think this is the engineer in me trying to figure out why this may be. But I think since I'm getting so much smaller there is less room for error??? Just a random thought.
3. I can not remember now.... but I believe I told everyone that Amy said I may only need 12 weeks for pre-contest. Well those dreams are starting to slip away because I can tell I'm not really shedding weight like crazy. But, I am READY. The next month is going to get crazy, I mean CRAZY. And I say "BRING IT ON FOOLS". I'm so pumped up to go pre-contest I can hardly take it!!!!!!
4. I have to say thank you again to everyone out there that has been so kind and supportive. I used to feel like people were trying to bring me down, and now the pendulum has swung the opposite direction. I believe this is because I am proving to everyone that I really can do this. But now it is truly amazing how many people have come forward excited for me. For example, today I was in training. We had to introduce ourselves like always. But this time, they specifically wanted us to say what our "thing" was on the side...so of course I just said "hey, I'm in training for my first body building competition". It was really cool to be able to just say it out loud and not have everyone freak out. But what was totally cool is how many people in the class came up to me later as I was eating my snacks and just said how impressed they were. One guy confessed he competed in the NPC in 30 shows in his younger days. Another told me that I would probably do so well being so short. And another asked what I was going to eat for dinner. How wonderful to see other people get excited. THANK YOU everyone for being my continued motivation and support! I feel very lucky for all of you!!!!
That's all my random thoughts. I have some more substantial posts on the way. Thanks for listening to my randomness in this crazy world of figure competing.
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