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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 DietÂ
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
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
My competition preps have always been flexible, in fact, I started flexible dieting when I started bodybuilding and prepping to compete two years ago. My first prep while macro counting had a cleaner focus because that's what I thought I needed. My clean focus also meant that I had a dry prep; I'd rather eat… Continue reading Flexible dieting and prep life: alcohol, cupcakes and Birchtree oh my!
This post has two parts. The first was written before my first session with my new counselor and the second was afterwards. Before I feel like I'm kind of going through the motions. I know I'm not alone in this. I'm not having an identity crisis, though, I wonder sometimes who I am. When I… Continue reading Why can’t I be capable of greatness?
I talk about this often enough, but I'll say it again. This adventure started as a blog. My background is in journalism and public relations, and as a professional I missed writing because it's not in my daily job. Blogging is my outlet and when I got into fitness it made sense to document my… Continue reading I am not…
I've shared about my work travel before (see DC post). I've showed some of the snacks I pack when I'm on airplanes and trains. But I don't think I've ever written a comprehensive post with my hacks. On Sunday, I posted that I was packing JP some snacks for his business trip. He checked into… Continue reading Travel Hacks for Staying on Track Nutritionally