13 days to go!!

Unlucky 13 right....things will start to change in 3 days as there is the 10 days out plan, so the good news is that there will be some change in my life,,,,,the bad news is that I am thinking that
I may not like the change as these are the final days of tweaking with water loads, then dehydration, total carb depletion, then carb loads, yada, yada, yada, the bisque was good.

16 Days to go!

Well, it's almost here. Sticking to the diet has been the hardest thing at the end here, also doing the cardio twice daily has really been a drain on me considering I had no energy before we moved that up. I had to order new posing trunks because the ones I had were "too big", I guess you have to show a lot of skin....."SKIN TO WIN! SKIN TO WIN!" I feel like a piece of meat. Anyway in 10 days we start the total decarb and water loading, and then come Wednesday before the show I get to have CARBS!! White rice, so calm down, it's not sexy like a Snickers bar. Also Wednesday will start the dehydration process....there should be a lot of interesting changes that week. I have a professional photographer taking pictures on that Thursday, so i will get some great pic's to prove that I really did it, and NO there will not be airbrushing or photo shopping it will be me. the Friday morning I go get my Spray Tan, did you know that you do those in the nude?? That is the latest update, and I am pretty sure that I am ready, there are things that I wish was better, i.e., my legs, but for the first time I am pretty pleased. Come celebrate Cinco De Mayo with me if you want to watch me be gluttonous.

Posing Practice March 12th

Here are some pic's from the posing practice on Friday. Rhonda and the boys were able to come and watch me which was really cool. in these pic's you will see Bobby (trainer) and his wife, they both help with the posing. I have 7 weeks to go (47 days) not that anyone is counting. I have a long way to go in order to be ready, but things are really coming together and everyone is happy with the results. Bobby says that we have a shot a first place God willing that would be great, but either way I will be happy and praise God because I have been able to achieve a goal that 12 months ago I would have never thought possible. Yes, those are my little posing trunks I will have to wear at the show, nice huh?

T-61 Days

Weighed in at 222.0 lbs this morning. I am keeping the muscle weight on real well while losing the fat. I don't know where my body fat is at because we are not measuring it, but if I had to guess I would say it is around 7-8% (I could be wrong). Things are getting harder each day, and I am having dreams of eating fish sandwiches and french fries (serious), and the worst part is that I even feel guilty in my dreams! Anyway this is the downhill slide, so I just have to keep the focus. Pics are from this morning, not very good quality, but you get the point. Still quite a way to go.

Day 114 of 182

I figured it up and I started this process 114 days ago and there is 68 days left, although this process has changed my whole perspective on how I will live my life for however long the good Lord allows me to be here on earth. I can say that this last half of the process is not how I or anyone would want to live their life everyday. Things are getting hard because of the lack of carbs and the biggest problem is that I am extremely grumpy and I have to try and contain that emotion, but the fat is really coming off at a nice pace. I just ordered my posing trunks (banana hammock) and that is going to feel weird wearing something like that, but I won't be the only one wearing one, so what the hell. One day at a time.

73 Days to Gooooo!!

Hey it's been a while, but really it's been business as usual with the whole thing, that is until yesterday. I met with Bobby for measurements yesterday and I have made some great gains (actually losses) and things are going as planned, but in order to keep the momentum we changed up the diet to get rid of more of the daily fat intake and replaced it with protein and the next step is to cut on of my morning carbs with protein. Again there is a long way to go, but yet it will come quicker than I think.

79 Days to go!!

Weighed in this morning at 224.2 lbs, and the odd thing is that it is not really about the scale because I have been loosing body fat and we are going to do measurement next Tuesday, but Bobby will not do a body fat calibrator because it's useless since it is all about how I look. Things are getting harder with the diet and my body starts to go after the fat stores it is really trying to convince me to eat and making me grumpy. Times like these you just need to stay focused and remember that your body is not in charge "you" are in charge, your body does not want to use up fat stores and it will do anything it can to keep it. Here is a picture of my pills that I take in the morning and then there is another round just like it at noon. It is a cornucopia of vitamins and fat burners, ect.

83 Days to go!

On Tuesday I had my first posing training session and bobby said that I did well (I think he was being nice), but it was more difficult that it looks, but I have been practicing and I think that I am getting it. My weight has been a mystery, right out of the gate I lost 9 lbs in the first week, and then all of the sudden I gained 4 lbs in 1 day (1 week ago), and since I have lost 2 lbs, so thjis morning I weighed in at 225 lbs, BUT,,,,I can tell just by looking that I am loosing body and look a lot better. Bobby had me order this stuff called AB/FX which is a lotion that I rub on my stomach....and get this....then I wrap myself with saran wrap. I do this while I do my cardio and it is supposed to give me movie star abs!! Again all this stuff has been a great learning experience that I can take with me for the rest of my life. 83 days to go and it is so far away sometimes and others it is going too fast. Thanks to you all for the supoprt it really helps.

91 Days to Go! (personal plea)

223.6 lbs was the weigh in this morning. The weight loss has stalled, BUT I think the fat loss is still coming because it feels and looks like I am thinning out still, and it is still only a little over a week.

This is the time of year when people evaluate their lives, whether it is their job, health, relationship with Jesus, parenting skills, ect. I would encourage anyone to find someone who has already succeeded and take a few minutes with them to find out what path to take, because you don't have to reinvent the wheel. The key to success is to stay on the path you have laid out because anything worthwhile takes time and most people jump off the track before they can see the positive results. You can not base your decisions on how you feel from day to day, you need to think BIG picture. I just felt that I wanted to say this because the one thing that I am learning through this process that I am going through is that if I listened to my own inner voice then I would have quit a long time ago and then I would be missing out on the great things that are happening. I am not special, I do not have anything that anyone else does, this is a choice and YOU have to make the choice to stick with whatever you are doing if you want positive change.

Good Luck!

93 Days to go!

Weighed in this morning at 223.4 lbs, so officially after 1 week I lost 9 lbs on the new competition diet. The first 3 days was real tough and I was tired all the time with the lack of carbs, but my body has adjusted and now I feel great. I met with Bobby yesterday and he likes how things are coming, but the major area of concern is the belly area and getting all the fat off of that. Right now the legs, arms, chest and back are tightening up real nice, so the abs will be the last thing to come in the way we want it. Stepped up the fat burners today so we will see what that does. Rhonda has made it to the gym every morning this week and she if following the diet to a T! She has lost 3 lbs after just only 3 days and she is sore, so things are going well for her! Gotta run.....get it.....gotta run!

96 Days to go!

Alright, I been MIA for a few days, but that's ok. I am down to 224.0 lbs this morning, so after 5 days I have lost 8 lbs, so much for only having to lose 2 lbs a week. This is really exciting, but it's not easy, but hey, anything in life whorthwhile takes that extra effort otherwise it's not worthwhile because anyone could do it....right? Gotta go I need to get ready for church!

99 Days to go

weighed in at 225.0 lbs this morning, lost a little over 1 lb. Gotta run as I need to head to the gym and I am runnign late.

100 Days TO GO!!

OK!! We switched gears as of Tuesday morning and went from gain weight/muscle mode to cutting weight mode. I eliminated ALL carbs with the exception of a little Old Fashioned Oatmeal in the morning around workout time.....AND......Drumroll........I lost 6 lbs in 1 day! Went from 232.2 lbs(Monday and Tuesday morning) down to 262.2 lbs this morning. Don't quite know what to make of that, but I guess when you drop 1400 calories a day from your diet all from carbs then you can see that kind of result. Anyway time to go to the gym as he has me working out 2 hours per day 6 days a week. Pic is one I took of myself this morning,,,,yes I was that surprised.

Day 83

Well today is the day that I get my new diet/workout and we start shedding all this weight, I am so excited (I know that sounds crazy). I weighed in at 232.2 lbs this morning, so I am really officially at the highest weight since we started this. I meet with Bobby at 3:00, but I have a busy day today. Here is a picture of Nolan who fell alseep at the dinner table last night.

Day 80

Weighed in this morning at 231.0 lbs. So I was a homeschool teacher and a mortgage professional yesterday, trying to wear both hats while Rhonda was gone.....it went ok. Legs are really sore still, but off to the gym anyway! Gotta go!

Day 79

Weighed in today at 230.6 lbs., I am soo excited to get on with this last part and get this fat off and get cut up, I will be posting monthly pic as we move forward. Been a bust week at work which is good because the first 2 weeks of this year were SLOWWW and kinda got me worried, I think that the snow really just kept everyone homebound, but now people are getting around out there and looking at houses to buy, so that is good news. FYI, I cannot hardly walk today, so feel sorry for me.....workouts with Bobby just kick the crap out of me.

Day 78

Weighed in this morning at 230.6 lbs, had another round of legs workout with Bobby yesterday, so I am sure that I will not have the ability to walk tomorrow. 6 days to go and I start cutting weight......stay tuned.

Day 77

Today I weighed in at 230.4 lbs....6 days left till cutting weight! I also get to start taking my Estrogen blockers and get rid of any trace of woman from me...I will keep you posted.

Day 76

Weighed in this morning at 231.6 lbs......I am sooooo looking forward to next week to start cutting weight. rice, oatmeal, yams....go away. Yesterday was the laziest day I have had in quite some time, but the good thing was that we were able to play with Nolan more than usual and he had a good time. 110 day to go!

Day 75

Weighed in this morning at 230.4 lbs, so it looks like it is official and I am only going to get to 230 since I only have 1 week left before we starting cutting weight, which means I fell about 12 lbs short of my goal of weight gain.....but hey, that's ok because that is less that I have to lose (don't tell Bobby I said that). This puts me at 30-35 lbs to lose in 14 weeks, so just a little over 2 lbs per week which should be doable, gotta head out to church, see ya later!

Day 73

Today I weighed in at 229.6 lbs...short a sweet today because I am out of time! Cold weather has set in and it show there there is NO temperature out there!!

Day 72

Yesterday I weighed in at 228.8 lbs and this mornign I was 229.2 lbs. We have set the date and January 18th is the official start of the competition diet and I start going down the path of losing 30-35 lbs. I got another 5 inches of snow last night, so the city will be shut down in terror!!! Weird that we could have snow in the middle of winter?? Anyway, gotta go and do an Ezekiel study! Here is a picture of Ethan showing off his muscles.

Day 70

It is so nice getting back to the normal routine! I took my 2 deer over to Warrensburg and I am getting them made into, Jerky, Deer Dogs, Breakfast Sausage, Summer Sausage, Summer Sausagew/Cheese, and Summer Sausage W/Cheese & Jalopenos.....MMMMMMM. I have all day at work today to prospect for new business which is exactly what I need. I have a chest workout with Bobby today so this will be my 2nd round of chest with him, so I am excited to see if I was still doing it the proper way. I weighed in this morning at 227.4 lbs and I get my measurements today from Bobby as well.....hmmmm we will see what that says. French Vanilla flavored protein powder sucks for making protein pancakes by the way.

Day 69

Yesterday was spent doing a lot of cooking for the week and waiting for the family to get home and I saw tyhe Chiefs whip the Bronco's IN Denver and Jamal Charles rushed for 253 Yds and 2 touchdowns! Derrick Johnson intercepted 2 passes for 2 touchdowns! WOW! Today is back to the routine and NO MORE TRAVEL for the next 5 months! Today I weighed in at 230.4 lbs, and for some reason I feel like I must be retaining a ton of water. Today pic is a people of walmart pic.

Day 68

I posted all kinds of pic's on facebook of my hunting trip so you have seen what I have for pic's. I had a great 24 hour hunting trip over to KS and I shot 2 deer, now the challage is to find a locker locally. I had to drag both deer by myself out of the woods and the one was well over a mile and the other about a half mile, but it is not the easiest when there is 8 inches of snow on the ground and it is 2 degrees outside....but hey, I had a blast! All that working out helped because for lunch yesterday I had a DOUBLE BACON CHESEBURGER with FRENCH FRIES!!! It was freaking awesome!! I made the executive decision to go ahead and have it since I figured I was burning enough calories so there was no way it would stick with me and I was right because I weighed in this morning at 227.2 lbs which means I actually lost about a half a pound. Back to the gym in the morning, and it is snowing once again down here...feels like I am in Iowa!

Day 66

It's a new year, but NOT a new decade, that doesn't start till next year. We went over to some friends house last night and played cards and still made it home by 11:00 and we WERE awake at midnight and then the boys went over to the neighbors house to sleep over and it's almost 9:00 a.m. and they are still not here yet. I weighed in this morning at 227.8 lbs, and I leave this morning for KS to go deer hunting as soon as I am done with the gym. Pic is of Bear begging for more protein pancakes, he LOVES those things...weird.