I have four days until my competition and I’m a little freaked out.  Just a little.  I keep worrying about two things in particular. One, that I’ll fall down on stage.  I normally wear clunky grandma shoes not 5 inch heels.  I’ve been practicing walking and posing but not nearly enough.  And two, that the […]

Source Plateaus. Yep, most people who have lost weight attest to hitting a plateau at some point.  What can you do?  First, it’s important to address the mental.  At this point it’s really easy to just give up and say “Oh well I must have bad genetics” or some other excuse.  Maybe you are fine […]

That’s how I justified my choices last week. Under normal circumstances that would perfectly appropriate excuse to enjoy a bit of controlled splurging. But trying to get small and tight enough where I can walk on stage in 4 weeks wearing a sparkly velvet bikini without looking like I had jello implants put in my […]

This weekend, I’m officially eight weeks out from the show and I’m feeling really great. Nope, my life is not perfect and everything is not going exactly the way I want it, but despite it all, I feel better than ever! I think most of it has to do with getting regular exercise and eating […]

Sextuplets! A curious thing is happening. Although I’m not losing very quickly, if at all the last few weeks, and my measurements haven’t changed, some sweet little sextuplets are about to be born. I think I’ll call them The Abbeys. In other words, in my opinion (and that is the ONLY opinion that counts!) my abs are looking […]

This week has been a rough week.  Damn PMS.  EVERY TIME I stepped on Evil Scale it was up a pound or half a pound. And every time I start to feel mental.  During a normal week, I would remind myself that weight fluctuates and is NOT an accurate tool for weight loss. BUT this is […]

My mom is a GREAT seamstress, much better than she gives herself credit for! In my life she has sewn everything for me from a indian princess costume when I was 5 to a crib set for my second son. Not to mention all the cute things she has sewn for my sister and her […]

What is a figure competition? That is what I asked when my dear friend told me she was doing one a few years ago. This is how I’d describe it. In figure competing women walk in 5″ clear heels on stage wearing silly sparkly bikinis and ridiculous looking one pieces while being judged on their […]