All I can say is your body recomp is going very oddly.
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I'm thinking we have a new avi photo there...
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Those ears are awesome - LOL @ odd body recomp.
I thought they were hilarious. I had to push a kid down to get them though... The funniest thing is that I was far from the only adult sporting these. I am pretty sure I was the only one wihtout a kid sporting these though. LOL!
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I was singing Late Night Romance Low Rent Rendevous in my office today with the door open. That is pretty public singing though it is not pretty singing.
You know that you can't divulge all the guy secrets to women if they let you into the He Man Woman Haters Club. What you see there, stays there.
Don't worry man! I know all about "what we say here, what we see here, what we do here, let it stay here." So did the coworkers stop by to compliment you or was there just an awkward silence?
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I am not a good singer. Sometimes I'm ok, sometimes things go horribly awry... I still belt it out at karaoke... I guess I just have no shame.
Been really enjoying "Love Shack" as a duet with DH lately...
That's what it takes... No shame. Either that or a damn good voice.
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WOOT WOOT
Not bad at all, youngster.
Good to see you back at it in a positive way.
Thanks Tom! Always glad to see you stopping by.
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Fabulous work! Long time lurker and just have to say you give me hope-we are the same age.
Well thank you very much for coming out of lurkdom to introduce yourself. Feel free to drop in whenever you are in town....
Thanks everyone for the encouragement. It has been pretty challenging the last 6 or so weeks what with getting injured and having to re-set some things. The other thing that is getting challenging is the diet. I am starting to fade mentally a bit the past few days and last Friday I was so hungry I thought for sure I would eat my own arm off. I did not get one lick of work done at work for total lack of focus. All I could think about was food. I did not give in though. I got up a bzillion times from my desk and took walks and drank gallons of tea and diet pop. The last few days have been better but I still am struggling a bit. I do shit like lick the butter off the wrapper because I had counted it already as a tblespoon so I wanted to get ALL of it in me. No real logic attached to it just primal instinct and survival. I think that this really is the final stretch. I am waiting to see what Alan is going to do next. Our options are to finish this cut so that we have the experience to draw on and go into the show in March or to do some sort of mini-bulk into the show in March. I sort of want to cut hard right now and see what I got before I go on to a bulk but we'll see what he has to say....
Sorry not in your logs so much lately. I am struggling with time or lack thereof lately.
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The elephant ear photo cracked me up! Though I will admit, when you said "elephant ears," I immediately thought of funnel cake, and when I scrolled down the picture, I was wondering where that was. How my mind works sometimes...
And wow, you look hot in the other pics. That is so freakin' awesome.
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I am not a good singer. Sometimes I'm ok, sometimes things go horribly awry... I still belt it out at karaoke... I guess I just have no shame.
Been really enjoying "Love Shack" as a duet with DH lately...
You're another karaoke fan?! Me too! Dh and I love it, and he's actually the one who got me hooked on it. My favorite song to perform is Skid Row's "I Remember You." I don't do such a hot job with it, but I try, LOL.
Love the elephant ears. C'mon, there's gotta be a good avi there with a little photoshopping....
You look fantabulous. And it's nice to know that our muscles don't just go "poof" if we take a little time off to heal...this has been a lesson for me this summer.
I'm getting back from Palm Springs tomorrow, so call me and let me know your schedule!
I'm with Elizabeth, I think it would make a nice avatar! The other pictures look good too, showing that you've definitely been working hard (even with the injuries).
Thanks Anne. So far so good. Am spending the day hang'n wit ma baby girl. (Actually is my oldest but still my baby) She is in the kitchen right now cooking for me while I am catching up on internet play time as well as getting work done. I don't believe she has ever really cooked for me so I am excited. It will be fun. We went to the Valley today to look at some real estate that I spotted in Portland. My other daughter is moving to the area and it might be an option for me to buy a house for them to "rent". It was fun visiting my old stomping grounds and Gwen actually remembered the address of the house we occupied in Sherman Oaks. While we were there I made her take me to Universal City Walk. I used to love taking the kids there. It was so NOT appealling to me today. The stores are no longer cool and it is starting to just look old. When they first made that, it was so amazing. They had the coolest stores (like the BIG store and the Museum store) and it was just fun. Perhaps it is because I do not have little kids anymore it isn't as fun. Also was shocked to discover that a day ticket to the park is nearly 70 bucks per person. HOLY MOSES!! Tomorrow I see all my buddies. So looking forward to it. This is a fun city though not one I would want to move back to anymore. The air is so bad today that my sinuses are going crazy. There is grit on everything just from walking around. It reminds me of Bejing or New Dehli kind of dirty. Even worse for me than the air is the noise. Traffic, people, helicopters. It seems to be non stop here. I used to think this was the greatest place on earth to live. I guess I am just a country bumpkin now. It will be nice to get back to the fresh Oregon air and the amazing beauty of my farm.
For some reason the link isn't working to insert this pic taken this morning. BADASS!
Where's the like button? Clean air all the way, from one country bumpkin to the another! Love that motorcycle pic! So fun! Have fun with your kids, Karla! They are lucky to have such a great mama.
Another drive by posting I am afraid.... Desperately behind on so many fronts now....
LA was a blast. Spent a day house shopping and hanging out with my little girl. After the fun of house shopping and Universal City Walk, we went home and she cooked up this amazing French dinner with fabulous plum dessert. I had to come rescue her as she couldn't seem to make the caramel but other than that one incident she did the whole dinner. It turned out fabulously. My "adopted" daughter came to dine with us too and Gwen's other friends were a joy to be with. Besides Gwen and I,there was a Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Korean. So we repped a good bit of Asia. LOL! Gwen swears she did not plan it like that. It was a lovely evening.
The next morning my guitar friend swung by the house and swept me back into theThousand Oaks area were we plalyed guitar and discussed the PX90 exercise program that she wants to begin. Then at about 2:00 we headed towards Passedena area to visit another gutiar friend, Perf. Perf had just recently returned from the Philipines where he did a huge guitar tour. He showed us video of his concert/orchestra performance and also gave us a good overview of the trip. His two little boys (ages 4 and 8) where being monsters but they were so cute that I just wanted to hug them. I kept laughing when they were being bad and that cased Perf to laugh and then the kids would be monsters again. I was an awful Mom because I spent so much time just wrestling, rough-housing and playing with my kids at that age. I am sure I neglected to do the more serious parenting things... We had scheduled our visit with Perf for 3-5 and then we were to head over to Elisabeth's by 6:00 for dinner. Somehow communications got mixed up and his wife cooked us dinner. So we had to eat. My guitar friend (Donna) had seconds, while I tried to leave the table hungry so that I could eat again at Elisabeth's. LOL!
When we pulled up to the house that Elisabeth told us was hers, I saw this little girl fly out of the house at warp speed.... Then a few seconds later this little white haird being lept out of the house with a roar (I swear she cleared the whole front porch) and chased the little girl up the road at full run. I looked at Donna and said, "Was that really an old woman?" She was so spunky and agile. The woman turns around about 1/2 up the block and tells us that we are at the right house... Moments later Elisabeth greets us at the door and tells me that is her 70 year old Mother!!! I was instantly a fan and in love. I want to be this woman when I grow up. She is cute and spry and funny as can be. Then we met the rest of Elisabeth's family and we sat down to the most yummy dinner of greek tacos made by her very handsome greek husband. A handsome greek man that cooks. Ummmmm.... Just say, "Yeah Buddy!" I again was in love. We had a very nice and relaxed few hours of chatting and catching up. I just don't feel like it was enough time though so looking forward to another time. Perhaps I will steal her away for a whole day...
Alas the weekend had a down side as well. And Lisa hit the nail on the head. A great part of LA is in flames right now. Fortunately I think it is all in the uninhabited hills but it was very, very close to Perf and Elisabeth's house. Last night we watched the hillside burning in fact from the street right outside of Elisabeth's. Both Donna and felt a little uneasy when we pulled away from the house to go back to Thousand Oaks. This morning I heard that the fires got worse and that the town where Elisabeth lives is under watch. I think her house is relatively safe but even so it is scary. Tonight as the plane pulled out from the big city to take me back to Oregon I could see the expansive smoke. This one is a HUGE sucka and it made the air very smoggy today. I could see it all the way from the pool party I went to this afternoon in Hollywood.
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Beautiful!!! How lovely and you are looking soooo Hawt!!
Yay for good times and good friends.
LOL... You caught me before I got to explain my new AVI....
Okay so this one is significant for me on several fronts. This afternoon Gwen had a date in Hollywood to attend a wonderful little pool party with some of her friends. I knew about this and was invited to go but I had forgotten to bring a bathing suit. So Gwen offered me one of hers. All she had were two piece suits. So I tried one on and she told me that it was fine. I was shocked on several fronts. First that I fit into her suits. Then to hear say I looked fine. Not only did she say I looked good but she was even good enough with it that I could go out in public and meet her friends like that. LOL!
So I did it. It was a true test of my confidence to show up at a young person's pool party in the land of beautiful people in a bikini. All the other women had on bikini's too. I sat by the pool and looked at the bodies and you know what? They were all beautiful.... and they wer all flawed in some way(s). Most of the girls were soft. Some were skinny and some pretty heavy. All of them were out there in their bikinis despite their bodies. In other words... They had good body images. So today I sat in the sun in LA and enjoyed the imperfections of others and myself and it felt fine!!
As for the tag line... Another significant growth area for me is that I am finally starting to feel strong in the choices I am making with respect to my nutrition. I hired Alan because I liked what he preached and how he approached nutrition.... One of the things he says that I was immediately attracted to is, "Avoid food avoidance". I knew when I read that one day that I wanted to learn from him and to have him as my mentor.
Unfortunately, I live in a world where I am constantly told how wrong my diet is. People tell me that I eat too much, that I shouldn't eat fruit, and/or nuts and that I shouldn't eat after 5:00PM, etc, etc... I have always followed Alan's plan and always looked to Alan for direction BUT it has also always bothered me that I get this other pressure. This has actually been a point of contention for Alan and me in the past. It isn't that I did not want to believe but I simply did not have the faith I needed to be confiident. I did the plan with nearly 100% compliance but it was always with a nagging doubt. This weekend I took the book, Girth Control with me and I really stuck my head into it on the 4 hours of plane trip. The book is actually really incredible and my knowledge grew by leaps and bounds from this time studying. Now a lot of things I had in question make sense to me and I have insight into the "why" of the things that I am doing.
Couple this new learning with the results that are quite obvious right now to everyone (including me) and we have one pretty confident trainee going forward. It is no longer the case that I cannot answer why it is okay for me to do the things I do and besides... Who can dispute what this body is saying anyway?
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Awesome to see your confidence in your plan and in yourself growing, and glad you are having fun.
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What a great weekend you had.. wonderful people & insights. Minus the awful fires of course.
Cute avi! But I liked the elephant ears one better
The elephant ears one is cuter, but it doesn't have any meaning. I really try to chose AVIs that mean something fitness to me.
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Sounds like a great time! You're looking good. Don't get burned up!
No problem on my part with burning. Am in Oregon on my 40-acre farm right now.
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Hey furry friend. Thanks for stopping by despite your tummy problems.
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Glad you had a great weekend.
The new AVI looks HAWT!
Your perspective on body image, food and the programming remains positive - hoorah!
This remains a "dumbass" free zone - Carry On.
Thanks Tom. Am very appreciative of your support and "dumbass" free zone comments. I feel like I am really growing this time period trying to avoid being dumbass.
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Awesome to see your confidence in your plan and in yourself growing, and glad you are having fun.
Hey Jennifer! Thanks for stopping by. It is always nice to see you in my little space.
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Look at your hawt self on the avi!
You are a living doll.
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Thanks for your great words and reflections. I kind of needed them today.
You do look terrific, and it's awesome that you're reaching that in your life.
You should be happy, and you look happy in the photos and the new avi.
So happy that my stuggles and reflections mean something to others. That is really what keeping a log is about IMHO. Thanks for stopping by.
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Had to come see what this hawt new avi was all about...and was happy to read about all the confidence goin' on.
Thanks for sharing your pictures...looks like a good time
Thanks for dropping in!
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Thanks for the sweet comments, I could just kiss you.
Just calls it likes I sees it....
So... How about some sort of fitness update? I am down in scale weight to about 125lbs. My plan for this weekend was to go on diet break and try to maintain or even gain some glycogen. I freak'n lost weight. Seems I always lose weight on trips. I just get moving more than eating no matter how hard I try to be relaxed about eating... It perplexes me that I managed to ever get obese. LOL!
That's right I was obese and then skinny fat and today.. Well... It is going pretty well towards having the very best me that I can have. Not such a bad thing I'd say. The only thing left to do is to continue packing on the muscle.
I was finally able to do a leg workout yesterday with success. I did squats, extentions, ham curls (prone and seated), abs and low back. Weights are still pretty light (about 60% of previous) but today I have DOMS and no bad pains anywhere so thinking that I am doing things more right than wrong. With respect to upper I am about 80% back to where I was and in bis/tris I am just as strong as I have ever been. I did not lose a bunch of strength despite the down time at least in those muscles. We have yet to see where I end up with legs, back and shoulders but I have high hope.
With respect to goals, I am just hanging out at this diet and calories and focusing on rehab and coming back. Don't know what follows that goal but am not too worried either way. I am very close to hitting competition lean or photoshoot lean and feel now like it would be pretty easy to do.
This diet has been remarkably easy so far... The hardest thing for me was having faith in it and also in the low carb affects.
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Sounds like you had a great weekend. The one thing about losing weight when away, it could be more to do with lack of stress. I really just dropped in to say that I liked the new avatar, but glad I could catch up.
Thanks and sorry if I missed it. I am enjoying this thread immensely from the sidelines and learning a lot and gathering more and more questions rather than answers.
This was funny to me. The first thought I had was Alan has the patience of a saint.
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Sounds like you had a great weekend. The one thing about losing weight when away, it could be more to do with lack of stress. I really just dropped in to say that I liked the new avatar, but glad I could catch up.
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You absolutely do not look your age in your avi either-you look wayyyy younger!
Thanks girls. I FEEL way younger too and coming back stronger and better each day!
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This was funny to me. The first thought I had was Alan has the patience of a saint.
Yeah.... He deserves a medal for putting up with someone like me doesn't he? What can I say? I forget sometimes that people do not understand my inner motives and workings... I did get in trouble for my actions so I am officially in the shit house yet again and out of that thread. I was just playing around a little. Honestly, when people are very dogmatic or zealot I like to get into their heads and try to comprehend what their motives are. I find it best to do this from a "beginner's mind" approach as they fight otherwise. Sometimes it is a good learning experience actually even if it is to learn how fucked up people can be. This one seemed harmless enough.... On one hand I actually think the guy is amusing in the way he dodges the real questions and challenges peoples experience. On the other hand his energy and passion is actually respectable even if he is all washed up with much of his logic. I figured it would be some harmless fun but I was wrong.... I did learn some interesting context/content in my line of questioning though which helps me tremendously in following the thread so not all bad but net is... in trouble and lesson learned...
Back to focusing on my program.
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Tomorrow I see all my buddies. So looking forward to it. This is a fun city though not one I would want to move back to anymore. The air is so bad today that my sinuses are going crazy. There is grit on everything just from walking around. It reminds me of Bejing or New Dehli kind of dirty. Even worse for me than the air is the noise. Traffic, people, helicopters. It seems to be non stop here. I used to think this was the greatest place on earth to live. I guess I am just a country bumpkin now. It will be nice to get back to the fresh Oregon air and the amazing beauty of my farm. 
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