Focus......

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”- Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger

FIGURING OUT THE FIFTIES.... SO THIS IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT.......

Sunday 30 January 2011

humpf.. reallllyyyy... I mean.. Realy???

Since October I have been consciously training and eating to keep my fat levels down and to avoid the rebound that attacks after a competition.... yes there have been blow out days... toast and peanut butter nights... and our Saturday cheat days have become a pizza night habit...

So I was pretty worried about having a caliper episode yesterday... my head was telling me that if I was 90 mills I would be okay with it... 100 and I would be annoyed but resigned and committed to do better... If I had manged to stay around the 74 mils from early December I would be amazed and happy..

Now I will admit to tightening my nutrition over the last couple of weeks since we all booked to go to Melbourne to watch the Pro Show in March, not only because I will be surrounded be the lean and the gorgeous but because I was meeting Miss Jo Stewart, and hell I want to look at least passable when I finally meet her in real life... There are a couple of other reasons for reducing my fat levels as well, so all in all I have been pretty strict with the extras in my meals... I haven't dropped all the fruit, just reduced it, I have changed around a couple of meals and tossed a banana out of the afternoon...

Also these measurements were taken by a different person, so of course they make comparisons with my previous readings hard but they do give me a point of reference and really that is all that is needed, a snapshot in time to judge progress and whether changes are really working...

I was very happy to find that my measurements came in under 70 mils... 68 to be exact... and even allowing for a different measurer and adding a couple of extra mils on to cover this I am still around the 74 mils from December and since my body weight has actually increased since December this must mean my lean body weight has also increased...really??? I mean of course it has..ahhmmm.. really??

I will now admit to being very uncomfortable with my weight gain over the past month... but of course this once again proves that the scales are not a good way to measure your progress... on the scales I gained 2kg over Christmas, lost it again, found it again, reduced it down to 1 kg and have ended up by gaining 1.2kg in lean body weight and reducing my fat%...

My nutrition will remain tighter for the next 7 weeks till the Melbourne trip.. then after a weekend of fun and laughter with Hubby and the Bribie Muscle girls I will tighten it up again through to May and my birthday... the decisions will then be decided.. new realms will be explored.. lessons will have been learnt and the new door will be ajar and it will take one small step off a very high ledge to make it through my tunnel light...

2 comments:

Chelle said...

I know what 70ml looks like so i bet you're looking fantastic! Kudos to you for staying there all through the festive season too. So what's the 'ml' goal for 'happy maintainance'??

mq01 said...

YEAH!!!!!!!!! fabulous maintenance! really!

and sometimes one must jump in order to visit winds of change... the higher the better :)