Feeling blessed

I am in such a happy place in my life atm. I have the bestest girlfriends a girl could ever ask for. We have heaps of other great people around us too. It is a shame that it took us leaving and coming back to fully realise what we had. We can see it all now and appreciate it so much. We are blessed. We have so many laughs, giggles, and fun. This is how life should be!!


Am having the weekend off training. Should have gone and done legs yesterday but some drinkies by a friends pool put an end to that promptly lol I have two big days of work ahead of me so there is my cardio. Back into my weights monday morning.

Carb up is in full swing. Loving it!!!

Anyhoo time to get ready for said work. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!! xxx

This is what I am hoping to have tonight. Rob is going out with his workmates for their end of year function piss up. I have downloaded the entire first season of True Blood and I am going to sit on the couch with my darlins and watch it.

No vino for me this weekend... I have been having it a bit too much the past few weeks. I need to get back into the mindset of it being a treat not a crutch. I feel like i have been retaining water because of it. Although this morning after a week of being good, I am feeling a lot tighter.

Training is going along wonderfully for me. I trained chest the other day, started with flat BB bench cos everything else was taken. I worked myself up to 60kg bench, then I grabbed the first available spot and went over to do DB bench. I started with the 20kgs, then went 22.5, then got Rob's help to get up the 25kgs. Easy, I got 8 out. I saw the 27.5kgs sitting at his feet, he had been doing shoulder press, so I grabbed them, and with his help, got those little suckers in the air. I managed to get out 6 reps. Then I jumped up and did a little happy dance :o) happy little Vegemite I was!!!

Today I have the day to myself. Yes all to myself!!! I have a truck load of washing (my spawn seem to think everytime they wash their hands they need to take a new towel out of the cupboard and dirty it!!) so yeah, its mainly towels I am rewashing. Then I am heading out to have a swim and a chat with a friend of mine. I haven't caught up with him at all since we moved back up here, except for a chat on the phone. So I am really looking forward to seeing him.

hmmmmm what else......... The couple of girls that I am training are going really really well. I am ultra proud of them!!! I won't plaster their faces or names on here, but did want to say, well done girls! you are both legends!!!

Nutrition, I have eased back into eating anabolically nicely. It is so second nature to me. Rob has been doing it too and has lost 3% body fat in the past 2 months. So he is now down to 9.2% he is happy with that. funny thing about boys, his fat is on his abs and back, not on his legs and hips like us poor girls!! So yeah, today is the start of my refeed. well this afternoon is. I am half tempted to hold it off till tomorrow and start to cut it back a bit, but then why?! I could be leaner, but is there really any need to be atm? I have abs showing, my thighs are sitting at 14mls. All over my body is 51mls. I think there has to come a time where we come up for air and have a good hard look at ourselves. I should be happy with where I am. The downside for me, and the thing that does my head in, is that the scales are so much heavier than before. I am sitting at 68kgs!! but pretty lean. Still, am sitting at 68kgs!!! see, it does my head in.

At the end of the day, I have the beach bod that I wanted for summer, now to just stay away from the midweek drinkies, I might stand a chance of keeping it... esp since summer ain't officially here yet!!

Next week is my birthday too, hmmmmm dunno how I am going to get around the whole birthday cake bizzo when its not refeed time. I don't plan on bringing it forward a day either cos we are heading down the coast for the weekend and I want to be able to have my refeed then. pffttt its really nothing much to stress about. After all life is way too short for stressing the little stuff like this hey!

on that note, I am off to start hanging out this washing..... blah!!

17 hours till I go and see...

I am half way through reading it again and simply cannot wait to see it!! The trailer I have seen looks so much like I had imagined in the book.

and while we are on the topic of Vampires........

If you have not already seen Vampire Diaries, then I highly recommend

Its on HD Channel 80 - GO!

Sitting pretty

Excuse the hair.... some of u on facebook will have seen this pic already, but not everyone has me on facebook so I am posting it here too. This is me taken yesterday. just under 2 months post comp. I think I am in a pretty good place physically.

I had an email last night from a chappy in America. This email has really taken me by surprise. The general gist of it is him telling me that I am his fave fitness model and can I send him a signed autograph. What the!? this gentleman needs to have a good look online cos there are stunning girls who do fitness modeling. I don't even consider myself to be a fitness model. Just a regular chick who busts it in the gym on a daily basis. I am flattered by his request, albeit stunned.

Our plans for this weekend have been changed, in all honesty I am not all that sad either. As much as I wanted to do what we had planned, I am feeling like we are stretching the babysitting credits a bit thin. We have Rob's parents lined up for the weekend we go away down the gold coast and that in itself is a big ask! they will have the kids from Friday morning till sometime sat avo/evening when we get back. We would have loved to have 2 nites away from our monsters but that's too much of an ask. Rob's parents are really getting on now and can't cope with our kids for that long.

Had a great refeed on the weekend and am back to the low carb grind again this morning. Have decided that this week I will add in some extra cardio on the bike, I want my abs more visible for the goldie trip haha

Training wise, today is back day. I had the alarm set for 4.50am, but woke feeling really blah at 4.30am and turned the alarm off then slept through till almost 7am. The downside of having a few wines the nite before. So am going to go to the gym tonight instead when all the meat heads are there. Might take the boy down the beach today. I feel like getting some fresh air and putting on a bikini ;o)

Dear O Dear, my life is all but hectic atm!! I have so many social outings coming up, so much work to do and lots of training really hard too.

I am hurting all f#ck atm! Yesterday I set a PB for DB flat bench. I got the 25kg DBs up in the air for 8 reps. Happy?? you betcha I am!!! the resulting pain is quite satisfying too.

Today I trained chest. Did 3 more sets of pull ups. The other day when I did them I re injured my ulna collateral ligament. ARGHHHH!!!! so I can only do them close grip.

Tomorrow is legs day. Lurve legs day. I am training tomorrow avo with hubby. I was spewing that I trained at 5.30am this morning as hubby walked into a gym full of the Brisbane Lions players this avo :'o( **sob sob** that I missed that. On the good side they are going to be training at the oval tomorrow avo before the Firemen and Police Charity match that we are going along to.

You know, aside from mild frustration from my work, I am very very happy with our lives atm. I have my ticket pre bought for New Moon next Thursday morning.... 12.05am!! Can't wait! Today I booked our accommodation for our weekend down the goldie for my birthday, with some of the best friends that a person could ever ask for! next weekend I have one of my girls coming up from brissie with her new man for a huge bday celebration with them too. Then from here till xmas we are pretty much chockers with activities.

Today i did my weight and measurements. Weight is sitting at 67kgs. skin folds are coming in at 53mls. So I am retaining some intra muscular water but have also put on some lovely luscious muscle. Really looking forward to seeing how I come in for season 2010. It is getting closer and closer by the day. To do a Big Kev on you all..... "I'm EXCITED!!!" ;o)

Glute-alicioius!

I used to have no butt at all. Nothing, De Nada.... you get the picture! These days I am feeling like one of the Williams sisters! I have got some muscle happening back there!! All those squats etc are really paying off!

So todays training?? you guessed it, legs day :o) gotta love leg day!

Walked to the gym - 20mins thats my warm up

1 x 12 - squat with bar

3 x 8 - 80kg squat

3 x 10 single split squat - 15kg DB in one hand

3 x 10 - bench squat with 20kg plate

3 x 8 - leg press 200kg

finished off with Abs and then a return walk home. I am training legs twice a week, later in the week I will do more hammy work.

I jumped on the scales this morning at the gym and I am 68kgs. Whoa!!! I have noticed that the fat distribution on my legs is much different, I don't have the bits that I used to have. The main fat I am carrying is sitting on top of my hips. It won't be there for long though haha This morning my mid section was a lot leaner, now to just drop the water that I am holding from the weekend refeed.

So day 1 of 2010 prep went without a hitch. Must start to think about adding in cardio other than walking to and fro the gym and of course my job 4 days a week. hmmm having said that, that all may be enough.

Time to get the kids ready for school, I just found a cootie in Erin's hair so time to get out the conditioner and comb :o( the joys of school aged children... NOT!!!

Thinking about......

For

2010 Australasian Championships

Just under 19 weeks to go!! I can make it no worries, its gonna be a bit rough over xmas and New Years - i generally go a bit bOnKeRs with yummy yummy food at that time of year. I am pretty lean atm, so not worried about dieting. My main concern is whether I am jumping up again too quickly and not maximising my muscle growth. But having said that, I will have 7 months in between comps, so I should be fine :o)

So the decision is looking like it has been made....... Holy Shit I am in Comp Prep again!!