Registration mailed: Check!
Polygraph Scheduled: Check!
Posing Suit Ordered: Check!
Hotel Booked: Check!
A few things are now crossed off the list of To-Dos. But there is so much more to keep in mind in the next few days and weeks. If nothing else it has taken my mind off of training and eating.
So let’s recap my day…
Woke up bright and early at 5:20am. Cooked breakfast, triple-checked my bag and headed to the gym for an hour on the elliptical and some supersets of shoulders (front, side, rear raises…2x8/10).
Showered and at my desk around 8am. Eating reheated egg whites, protein shake and 15 almonds while I check email and go over what I want to accomplish today.
By 8:15…my list of what I want to accomplish is far too much for one day. My breakfast is gone. The first cup of coffee can’t cool off fast enough. And I look at the clock and begin playing my daily mind game of don’t eat the next meal until after 10am.
Now it’s 9:30. I have a meeting at 10. Do I eat before the meeting? What if I don’t get out of there until 11:30? Would people notice if my blood sugar drops and I pass out? It’s settled…go warm up the bag of broccoli.
11:00am…Broccoli didn’t fill me up. Meeting is over. Now I inhale my 6oz of chicken. Check in with the trainer for some motivation. Trust the process! Strong Mind Strong Body! Look how far you’ve come in this process! Whew! I needed that. And a second cup of coffee also helps.
Noon…next meal is the worst of the day. Peanut butter and a protein shake. It tastes great, but always makes me more hungry. And then I notice the ‘irritability’ factor is soaring. Anything could set me off this week. I was ticked that the gym was out of kleenex this morning. And then just now I am ticked at the song on the radio. Not turn the channel ticked. Like call the radio station and complain to the station manager about song choices. Soundgarden…all the time? I get it. Black hole sun? Move on dude!
1:30. I need a nap.
4:00. Head to the gym to snap pictures with the trainer and work on posing (stay tuned, I’ll post those next). We are 3 weeks out exactly. The pics look great and major progress week over week. Posing is still frustrating at this point.
5:00. Begin second workout for the day – back (lat pulldowns, bent over rows, shrugs). Followed by 40 minutes of cardio on the bike. Forty minutes feel like 40 hours. I don’t mind cardio, but 1) I was starving and started to shake again, and 2) I was mentally not in the mood…there were other places I wanted to be or things I felt I needed to get done aside from cardio.
6:30. Cook dinner. Clean up dishes from the day. Laundry. Check food supplies for the next few days. I’m pretty well stocked, but would love to have enough food to last me the next 3 weeks. Driving to the grocery store for lettuce or eggs is not fun.
7:00pm. Preseason football starts. Not sure if sitting down to watch TV is the best idea. I’ll be asleep in no time.
8:30pm. Enough has happened lately that I feel the urge to update my blog…..
Later…headed out to meet friends for a glass of refreshing ice water or perhaps coffee if I decide to splurge. Let’s not get too crazy. My body is so worn out that the other night I drank a pot of coffee around 9pm….and was asleep 2 hours later….it doesn’t even phase me anymore.
Constantly visualizing the show and myself on stage really helped at this point. It would get the excitement for training and life in general going again! ha!
ReplyDeleteYou are doing what so many want to do, but very few have the guts or determination to do!
This sounds silly, but I also found a theme song for myself and whenever I was feeling like crap, I would play that song or think about that song and it would get me pumped up again.
You know it's all mental. Hang in there! You can do it!