Today starts my third competition prep cycle and that means a few things: new goals, new workouts, changing my eating slightly. Sadly last Thursday was my last cupcake - it glorious. I do have a sugar cookie planned for later this week, but during prep I prefer to have foods in my plan that are … Continue reading Sarah Lynn Fitness Cookie Challenge: Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yesterday closed out the end of an era - the close of the 7th week of my reverse diet post-surgery. I've mentioned before that I started a reverse diet into maintenance as soon as the Cutler was finished, but my surgery was scheduled for 3.5 weeks into it. While I was on bed rest my … Continue reading Week in Review: The Final Week of the Reverse Diet
I've said it before and I'm saying it now, to me there is nothing more exciting than goal setting and looking at a timeline. That's what prep is. What goals do I have and what will it take to get there. In that, I also want to know what can I learn. I want to … Continue reading Coming Home Bikini Prep Series: Post 5 “A different direction for a new beginning”
Today I got to practice my first rule: If you can't be nice on my profile, I'm going to delete your comments and block you. That was liberating. So the comment was about how the person felt that "body shows" were degrading and didn't understand how I could feel empowered by participating especially when the … Continue reading Coming Home Bikini Prep Series: Post 4 “Empowered or Degraded, That is the Question”
I love Larbars, but I can't alway fit them in my macros. I found these at Target by the other bars. It's a mixed box of just Apple Pie and Cashew Cookie. Nutrition is exactly half a regular bar. Not 100% positive if they have other variety boxes, my Target only had this, but I … Continue reading Found: mini half sized Larabars
When I logged off Sunday night there were 22.2K people following my journey. To put it in perspective, the Cutler Classic was April 30th, almost perfectly four months ago. That Friday I had 6K followers and by Sunday morning after taking you through my show day of eating and hanging out with fellow competitors backstage, … Continue reading Coming Home Bikini Prep Series: Post 3 “Let Me Introduce Myself”
I woke up at 445 like I always do and for the first time I didn't have any notifications on my phone, I didn't feel the need to go through comments and decide if I needed to respond, delete or block anyone. I went to the bathroom, looked at my bin of shirts and got … Continue reading Coming Home Bikini Prep Series: Post 2 “The Calm Before the Storm”
Next week starts prep and after watching a few prep series vlogs on YouTube, I thought creating a category for this season wouldn't be a bad idea. I've been asked when my next show is and I actually have two in mind for the fall season. The first is the New England Championship in Boston … Continue reading Coming Home Bikini Prep Series: Post 1 “Why I Compete in the NPC”
Today finishes my sixth week into my reverse diet since surgery. For those of you who are new around here, a reverse diet is the intentional increase in nutrition to your daily consumption. After my show in April, we had slowly been increasing my daily nutrition weekly based off of how I had been maintaining … Continue reading Week 6 Reverse diet check in
My next session with my therapist is on Tuesday. I'm not sure if I'm going every week, but he knew that he didn't want to wait longer than two weeks between our first two sessions. Fine by me. At our first session he gave me some homework. He wanted me to email him a list … Continue reading No really, that’s not a compliment
