Memorial Day Update

So, we are at roughly 9 weeks out ( a little less) from the 2011 Yankee Classic. Yikes, time flies!!! 22 weeks seemed like a life time, 9 weeks seems like the blink of an eye. The dieting is definitely getting stricter... which sucks in the summer. Surprisingly, it isn't the beer that I find myself missing the most. I think I miss sweets the most, like Lago's ice cream (coffee heath bar frozen yogurt with hot fudge, to be precise). But, soon enough. Also, some of the great people on bodybuilding.com brought some magic called Arctic Zero to my attention - its like a protein ice cream, only 150 cal for the whole pint! I am in love.

I went and saw Sarah at 180 nutrition in CT this weekend - she is incredible. Hooked me up with some whey isolate and some more jack3d. She is just so cute, always has such great advice. She is competing in the annual Bench Press for Breast Cancer on June 18  in CT.

Ashley has had a lot come up in her life - and will be putting the breaks on her training FOR NOW. She is going to try to train for the Granite State show that is in the fall. As a single mom, she juggles about 329048203948230 balls at once every single day, and she does an amazing job. She needs to focus on her number one right now, and I totally respect that. Still, it will hurt to not have her by my side for this. Knowing that there was always someone there that was just as tired, just as hungry, and just as sore as me was definitely helpful. Also, going to need to work on posing ASAPPPPPPPPP.

Enough debbie downerville - I weighed in at 129.4 lbs. Which is officially the lightest I have been since my junior year in high school.... 6 years ago. Holy #$*(#.

picture tiiiiiiime. taken May 29 - exactly 9 weeks out.

March 18, 2011

May 13

Friday the 13th... Ashley's 22nd birthday!

I spent the day golfing with dad, uncle jeff and shaney, had a BLAST, but didn't plan my meals well bc I didn't know I was going til last minute. Bummer. Headed to the gym for a quick cardio session now, going to cardio blast in the morning to dieeeee and love it.
Newest progress picture:

Hopefully I will get a job SOON so I can have some $$$ to play with, and be able to travel to practice my posing! Next weigh in is next thursday... I'm at 131.4 right now... going to bust some @$$ to get under 130 by thursday! My goal weight is to be 117-123 come show time... which is exactly 11 weeks and 1 day away. Keep your fingers crossed for me, and if you see me, keep me motivated to work hard and lift heavy!

Sorry for sucking...

I havent updated in a while, and I really hope that if you've been following, you keep following, things are getting good!!!So Ashley lost 8 pounds in just a couple week on Tony's crazy diet. She is getting MUCH stronger, and is SO motivated and dedicated. We are both putting a LOT more focused, heavy lifting into our workouts, and working the stairmaster like it's going out of style :)

I got my bodyfat done today... (4/26/11).... I weighed in at 132.5 lbs (which I haven't weighed since high school) and a rockin 12.45% bodyfat! First, I am SOOOOo thankful for my strength coach being there for me and my measurements whenever I ask him. Secondly, my aaaaamazing nutritionist Corey, who taught me not to be afraid of carbs!!!!!

Sorry for the sh*ttttttty quality camera phone, but it was the best I had at the time. I walk around the house in my hooker heels... hoping that I'll learn how to walk in them :)

Friday, April 15

Wednesday's workout:
warm up
10 pushups, 10 squat jumps... 9 & 9... to 1 & 1

3 rounds of:
30 around the worlds (25 lb plate)
30 russian twists
30 bent over rows (45 lb plate)
30 v ups
30 reptile pushups
30 squat to shoulder press (25 lb plate)
30e side plank raise
30 plank row (15 lb dbs)

*puke*

Yesterday's workout:

20 min on the stairmaster total
10 min of 30 seconds level 18, 30 seconds level 6
10 min of 40 seconds level 18, 30 seconds level 6

Incline bench -
5 sets, reps of 4-8-12-16-20
90 lbs x 4, 80 lbs x 8, 70 x 12, 55 x 16, 45 x 20

decline bench -
5 sets, reps of 4 -8-12-16-20
90 lbs x 4, 80 lbs x 8, 70 x 12, 55 x 16, 45 x 20

I did these with minimal rest between, and my spotter helped strip weights between so as to shorten the rest even more.

Todays Workout

5 rounds with 65 lbs on the bar
10 hang clean
10 push press
10 dead lift
10 overhead squat

Tomorrow, lifting back bis & tris... Sunday playing field hockey at UNH... Monday, workout with Ashley... Tuesday,  Crossfit with Heidi, then interview all day!

I weighed in the other day, and weighed in at 137 lbs. Which puts my weight-loss to date at 13 lbs!  While the number on the scale is great, I'm so happy with how I'm looking and more importantly how I'm feeling. Corey did a GREAT diet for me, and I'm confident that I'm taking care of my body and doing this the RIGHT way. I'm NOT losing weight by starving myself and doing days and days of cardio! Thats all for now :)

Words of wisdom for the week: Nothing tastes as good as being skinny feels. Stay disciplined.

Wednesday, 14 April

Sorry, I've been told I'm a bad blogger. Ash and I got to work out together over the weekend, and we threw some serious weights around! Probably the hardest leg workout I've ever done... Anyway, it's picture time!

15 weeks and change til showtime... My goal is to stop the little cheats on my diet - a bite here and there was fine before, but now it's time to get serious and stop messing around! and definitely more posing practice!!