I spoke with my coach, Kim, yesterday and he's got me "ready to roll" as he likes to say! Vic and I went out for dinner Wednesday night a our final date night until prep is done. I refuse to go out and have someone else cook me a boring, unseasoned chicken breast and vegetables just so that I can put pepper on them. So, we wait until prep is done or until Kim sends me out to eat a steak and potatoes! We went to a restaurant here in Temecula's Old Town that we've been itching to try forever, its called Goat and Vine and serves up some awesome pizza and cocktails. We shared the breadsticks appetizer, which was just their crust with mozzarella and their sauce for dipping and let me tell you, we could have left after that because it was so good. We ordered a lime carnitas pizza, and didn't like it that much. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't "Oh my God" good. I did have an amazing Christmas Punch cocktail that had homemade pumpkin syrup, orange juice, rum, cinnamon and my favorite...it was topped with champagne. Afterwards, we went to a local bakery that I've also been dying to try and we shared a red velvet cupcake and a brownie. I brought back a cupcake, packaged all cute, for our babysitter, only to remember that she just started her first bikini prep four days ago....so Ryker and I ate the cupcake.
Knowing that I was about to go into a dieting phase again, I decided to not just get something like McDonalds or Dominos that I knew would taste the same as always and that I would most likely say "well that wasn't worth it as a cheat meal", so we finally took the plunge to go to these restaurants that we've been eyeing forever, and then we ordered without abandon and just enjoyed ourselves. The best part, instead of feeling like I should finish my part of everything, we brought home so much! I have found that if I go into these situations and don't start off by depriving or negotiating, I can come out of it feeling successful and not overstuffed, while having tried everything I wanted.
Here is the real kicker. So, I sampled and enjoyed. I had two cocktails that had me almost drunk before I started the second (#lightweight), and then I woke up and had to weigh myself for my first Road to Arnold check in with Kim. I GAINED FIVE POUNDS OVERNIGHT! I shot up to 140.1, which by the way, is one pound shy of where I started my last prep. I successfully undid the weight loss that took three months in just one month. But here's the best part....I can still see a tiny resemblance of abs. My size 25 7 for All Kind jeans still fit just fine. Why? Well first, because those five pounds were water. But secondly, because all of this lifting is actually rebuilding my body. While I may be up in weight, for the first time in my life it isn't all going to my pooch! This is why bodybuilding can be so exciting and addicting. If you take the time to learn about the process and your body, you can mold yourself into a different package. For instance, after that weigh in and pictures were taken, all my Coach had to say is that we need to start training shoulders more often, those are our goal right now. So, more shoulders it is! I sheepishly tried to explain away why my weight is so high and he sounded like it just didn't phase him a bit. After nearly five months of getting Morning Face Christina in her underwear/bikini sent to his inbox, I'd have to wager that Kimbo has a pretty good understanding of how my body works at this point, which is why I'm so comfortable submitting to his instruction!
To continue with that, I woke up this morning for my weigh in. I don't have to weigh daily, but I enjoy seeing the chart that my FitBit app provides when it is fully populated. Control freak, much? I crossed my fingers and hoped that I had budged a little from post-pizza-cupcake-extravaganze and TA-DA! Back to 137. Three pounds over night. Did I restrict yesterday? Did I avoid all carbs? I did something truly crazy....I followed my plan. I FOLLOWED THE PLAN CORRECTLY! I ate my oats and my sweet potatoes, damn near a pound of extra lean ground turkey and a shit ton of spinach, cauliflower and asparagus (my favorites!). I didn't restrict salt, but I did drink all but about ten ounces of my gallon of water. It isn't exciting, I didn't take anything, I didn't eat magical Unicorn hair sprinkled with TinkerBell dust, I went to the gym and did a heavy back day, I did my 30 minutes of cardio and I ate a balanced day of foods.
This is why I love this. I love the accountability and I love the simplicity of following the rules and getting the results. I love the process! No weightlifting for me today, it is a weights-rest day, but I do still have to knock out my cardio. I'm thinking that if the weather cooperates, I might push the double strolled up the hill to a cute little park in the next neighborhood! Get a little outdoors time for myself and the kids, get them sleepy and finish cardio all at once? That sounds like the best way ever to start the weekend!
This blog is getting too long, so I'll shush now and go back to perusing all the cute stuff on Young Living's site. I found a dinosaur diffuser that my stinky little boy could use in his room! Now to talk his Daddy into it....wish me luck!
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