One Year Post-Comp

Wow! One year! I can't believe it's been a year since I stepped on stage in my itsy bitsy teeny weeny light blue stone-studded comp bikini! (that I wore for the 10th time that day...LOL!)

Competing was such a great experience! It was fun and a great challenge and goal for me. I met some great girls through my competing, found some great blogs to follow, and learned a lot about working out, eating for a competition, and how to do a competition. I put in some serious time prepping for my competition. I had a great time and made some lifelong bonds. It was an experience like no other.

Since that competition I have been all over the map emotionally. I stayed lean for quite a while post-comp, only gaining about 5-10 pounds in the first 5-6 months. But then my body caught up. Since about April I've been gaining weight fairly steadily. At the time I was working out well and eating right and gaining weight. It didn't make sense to me. But then I've read more and more about metabolic damage and how you can get this from doing what I did which was a couple of hours of cardio a day, 7 days a week, for months on end. I assume that's the problem. I can tell I'm not quite right and things in my body and mind aren't quite right. I'm steadily gaining weight and haven't stepped on a scale forever. It's been tough. My eating has been slipping and getting worse and worse and my workouts have become fairly non-existent.

Finally last week I decided I needed to do something about it and although my eating is still not quite right I am getting my workouts more back in line. It really helped to read this blog from Marianne at myomytv.com simply because she says that her advice is to start working out and the food will eventually come. This is true, I know. It's happened to me before. The more you work out the more you realize that you have to have the proper fuel to make those workouts the best they can be. So that blog really struck a chord with me! (Thanks Iris for pointing me to that post!)

I had a pretty good weekend. I watched a couple of movies including Waiting for Superman and Soul Surfer.  They were both good. I'm glad I don't have children in the public school system though or I would have been pretty infuriated watching Waiting for Superman. Soul Surfer is just inspiring. Bethany Hamilton is so inspiring and is just an amazingly positive person.

I went to a class yesterday at the gym I'm "trying on". And guess what? I was the ONLY one there! Woohoo! So it was basically a personal training session and it was good and fun. I'm pretty sure I'll join that gym because I really like it. I think it's the kind of motivation I need in my life. And the members seem pretty cool. I'll let you know for sure when I decide.

Hope you all had a great weekend and are ready for Monday to come waltzing in! Happy new week!