BritChick

I will never understand this!

GoalGetter

awww sorry to hear you're feeling bitchy. Give it a few days. What made your cardio workout so great? I can't even imagine saying "What a great cardio workout." I hate cardio. It's a necessary evil to me. hahahaah! I used to love it. Now, it is a chore.

nope, not me. Not feeling crabby at all. I'm in surprisingly high spirits, compared to how down i was feeling a few days ago. I've barely even given my diet a thought today. I prepped my meals last night and just go grab one when it's time to eat.

weird, like I just accepted that for the next 12 weeks this is how it is going to be, and that's that. I have no had anything I am not supposed to have. I didnt' even have any of my mom's sugar free hard candies (Sorbee or Crystal Light candies) that she keeps in a dish for her clients. hahahaha! i usually have one at least. Today I looked at them and said, "nah. this isn't part of the diet!"

Furthermore, I just made a batch of pumpkin mini muffins and I didn't even taste them. I didn't taste the batter either. I made them, let them cook on a rack (I even took a picture which I'm debating posting on here!) and then I packaged them up before letting any diet-sabbotaging thoughts creep up.

WTF? Who am I?!?! hahahahaha!

PreMier

Post a picture.. unless your sending the muffins to me, then I will see them soon enough(which I doubt ) lol

P-side Inc.

"the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

GoalGetter

[quote=aggies1ut] Me too. I love baking and cooking and just feeding people. Most of the times when I've made cookies or desserts or anything of that sort, it is usually for others. I never make them for myself. And more likely than not, I never even get to enjoy the foods I make when I am making them for others. I may take a bite of something or a piece or a sample, just to make sure it isn't bad. Then I hand it off.

Last thanksgiving (not this most recent one) I made a lovely pumpkin pie with a toasted coconut topping. I hear it was amazing. I'll never know. But i've got pictures of it! hahahaha!

aggies1ut

I've rarely eaten it, but I make a DAMN fine rum cake supposedly. I also make pretty fuckin' good cakes, cookies, muffins, etc.

GoalGetter

my rum cakes leave something to be desired. i don't know what it is. at least to my taste, it never comes out right. i haven't made one in a while though. maybe after the comp. THAT is one dessert i did indulge in when I made it.

I am on a never-ending quest to duplicate the taste, texture and experience of the Cake Designs by Edda vanilla rum cake (the "wedding cake" i said i wanted to eat on my cheat day last week).

aggies1ut

Aw lol. I can mail ya a rum cake after your comp. You'll have to pay shipping though . Hey, my cakes are VERY moist and ice packing and express delivery costs $$.

GoalGetter

i would pay for shipping if the cake is THAT good! i love a good rum cake! and post comp i will definitely indulge!

Hahahaha this gives me an idea. Everyone who wants to send me a home-made food item for consumption post-comp, please let me know. It will be a virtual pot-luck in honor of my first figure comp! hahahahahahahaha!

GoalGetter

These are the mini pumpkin muffins.

They are no longer out in the open. I have packaged them and sealed up the packaging so as not to be tempted to sample.

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aggies1ut

Welp, I have been offered money to bake my rum cake for people.......It must be good.

We should discuss this further post-comp. Lol, I should stop talking about it now because of temptation.

*Edit* Damn, I should go into business on the side. I already requests for 4 rum cakes. lol

GoalGetter

I'll put this in my planner for June 5.

klmclean

I'm not sure what made the cardio so great, it was just this huge feeling of accomplishment, I think because I was into it whole heartedly instead of just going through the motions, I was enjoying it and not dreading it, and I haven't felt like that in a very long time. . I used to be a cardio freak, in fact, the guys at the gym named me "Cardio Queen", so I've got to live up to my repuation and get back into it. I'm sure as time passes I won't be thinking about eating 24/7, it's just something I have to work on. I think I'm just going through junk food withdrawls Those muffins look yummy, are you going to post the reciepe? My training partner makes an awesome pumkin pie (low-carb and low-fat) and you'd never know it. Of course it's even better iwth low-fat whipping cream on top

Banish bad eating days forever!
Make every day a good eating day

GoalGetter

those kinds of workouts (cardio or otherwise) are awesome. good for you!

The recipe is in the recipes forum, it's posted by Jodi originally i think. I did it exactly as it says on there, except I didn't have casein whey. I used regualr whey. And i used mini muffin pans instead of the large muffin pans, so I came out with 22 muffins instead of 12.

Jodi

LOL, good thing I never posted my PB Pie recipe Not good for any diet

Essence EFA

GoalGetter

Upper - Heavy

Pullups
RI 60
bw/4 x 3
bw/3
bw/1 (this set I used a pronated grip, the real deal)

Incline DB Fly, 30-degree incline
RI 60
25/6 x 4

Seated Cable Row
RI 45
90/6
100/5 x 2

Incline DB Curls
RI 45
20/6
20/7 x 2

Tricep/Chest Dips, unassisted
RI 45
bw/5, 5, 4.5!

notes: first time i do this exercise unassisted! WOO!

DB Side Raises with 3-sec pause
RI 30
12/10, 8, 8

Abs - Decline bench crunches
bw/25
bw/10 (curlups)
bw/25

Stretching - didn't do it today. forgot.

Posing practice - had to start doing this if i know what's good for me! So i did. in the locker room. And people started looking at me funny, so i left.

GoalGetter

you can post it anyway!!! I'd love to see it! But I am keeping away from PB, so you can rest assured i won't be making it for now. PB and I had to part ways for the time being.

PreMier

So, you were doing chinups all but the last set? Nice workout Ivonne.

P-side Inc.

"the post-workout high is more profound than any drug-induced rush imaginable." -Dante B.

GoalGetter

Meal 1 - 545 AM
3 egg whites
25g of apple pieces
1/4 cup irish oats
8 fish oil caps

Meal 2 - 845 AM
2.5 oz. chicken
Romaine
2 tbsp Newman's Olive Oil & Vinegar
2 fish oil caps

Meal 3 - 1145 AM
3.5 oz. tilapia
2 oz. sweet potato
100g of apple pieces
Romaine Lettuce
2 tbsp Newman's own olive oil & vinegar
2 fish oil caps

Meal 4 - 215 PM PWO
1 packet naturally lean matrix MRP
1/4 cup oats

Meal 5 - 6 PM
2.5 oz. chicken
Romain Lettuce
2 tbsp Annie's Naturals Red Wine vinegar and olive oil
2 fish oil caps

Meal 6 - 9 PM
3.5 oz. tilapia
1/3 cup brown rice
100g of apple pieces
Romain Lettuce
2 tbsp Annie's Naturals Red Wine vinegar and olive oil
2 fish oil caps

Calories: 1435
Fat: 52.12 (32.68%)
Carb: 115.23 (32.11%)
Prot: 126.32 (35.2%)

GoalGetter

yeah, i call everything pullups. hahaahahahaha. They were chinups for the first four sets.

Thanks, P!

GoalGetter

ok that's all she wrote, folks. I'm off to bed. sweet dreams, everyone!

BritChick

Good for you for starting early... keep it up and keep doing it until you don't give a flying fuck what people think, seriously posing at the gym and in front of people will help you come stage time and the posing is SO important.
Got the hooker shoes yet? Must practice LOTS in those babies. Posing out of the shoes and in them is sooo different, my low back kills after any length of time holding the poses in heels. Also practice on different floor types just in case... lemme tell ya pivoting on carpet isn't easy and that's what they had last year at the EC! lol

GoalGetter

You folks really need to get with the program. There are people who DO wake up before 9 AM. We turn to you at 6 AM for a quick morning fix of our favorite channel, and what do you have on the plate for us? INFOMERCIALS.

Why isn't there a breakfast cooking show? Why maybe not offer a re-run of something you showed late the night before, which a lot of the early-to-bed-types might have missed but would enjoy? Like Iron Chef, or Good Eats, or Secret Life of... Why the stupid infomercials?

I'm just sayin'...

Yanick

i wish i had some muffins right now.

i like watching cooking show too, but mostly i like to look at the food (is that wierd) because i suck at cooking

"...we have to remember that training is a complicated dance of stimuli and response. Our goal is to understand how to manipulate the stimuli in order to evoke the responses we desire." -Nathan J. Polenchek

GoalGetter

Well, Patrick should have them by Friday, so go visit him Friday night and maybe he'll be a good friend and share!

I like watching them because a) i love anything having to do with food and you learn a lot from them and b) i like to look at food that I can't eat. It is some weird, masochistic thing I do especially when I'm dieting. I keep loking at constant reminders of everything I can't have!

naturaltan

another day, another 12 cents in my pocket

You're doing great at your precomp training and diet ...

just kick'in it in the ole Charger