Fitness Competition Prep Update: Day 26

Saturdays are my weekly check-in with my trainer, Jodi, at Premier Fitness in Nanuet, NY. I was very excited to see if there was any movement after last week's standstill.

I lost another pound and almost a whole percent of bodyfat. Woohoo!!! Very exciting!! To ensure I keep making progress, Jodi is making some tweaks to my diet and exercise:

• Eliminate the 100-calorie bread in the morning and replace it with 1/2 cup of oatmeal
• Increase cardio to 35 minutes, 5 times per week
• Keep training heavy with the weights
• When doing squats, focus on going deep (and less on the amount of weight used). This will help perk up the butt (which is much needed, might I add.)
• Begin practicing posing (eek!!) 

I've been devouring YouTube videos on NPC Fitness/Figure/Bikini contests so I can see what looks good when it comes to posing. You can definitely tell which girls practice...I want to make sure I nail it.


What would a weekly update be without this week's cheat meal? I felt like I was going to throw up after this. I don't look forward to them like I used to.

Cheat Meal

• Lots of guacamole and chips (I had a fierce craving for Moe's homemade guacamole and couldn't stop eating it once I started. LOL!)
• T-bone steak lovingly cooked on the grill by my hubby
• Fresh asparagus
• Sweet potato tater tots (did I mention that I could just about finish a small bag by myself?)
• Rita's gelati -- cherry ice with vanilla custard -- I had about 8-10 bites before I handed it off to my husband. 

I felt like a fat mess after eating all that! It tasted so incredibly good, though. *Sigh* 

So I have about 13 weeks to go -- yikes. I still need to drop a good 10% of bodyfat to get there. If I can show a decrease every week, I should be okay. 

Depending upon how fat I feel tomorrow, I may post a photo. I'm interested to see if there's a significant difference in one month.