Catching up
I need to start taking some time again to sit down and post what is going on. Funny, when there is so much going on that it would be awesome to share it with everyone, it’s too crazy to have any time to type it out and share it.
I am training particularly hard. I have to admit, I was really bummed about the last contest. I thought I was going to do so well, and then to come in pretty much last, well that was hard to swallow. I know now that I just didn’t have the body type that they are looking for in the ‘bikini’ division, so I feel better. But even so, I was still told I was too skinny, and didn’t have enough butt and legs. I had a small period of time where I was dismayed and wanted to give up competing, but I soon got over that—and got MAD! I said to myself: “Self, I am tired of having no legs and butt! This is IT—I have had all I can stand, and I can’t stand any more. I am going to work legs until I can’t walk. And I am going to eat until I can’t eat any more. I am going to gain muscle or DIE!!!”
And so I have. I have sought the advice of a wonderful trainer, who I hope to be working with in the near future, as funds permit. I will keep you updated on that. I have started working legs in several different ways, up to 4 times per week. I have still been lifting heavy–even getting 500 pounds on the leg press for 10 reps, 3 times in one workout! But I have added a LOT of plyometrics and explosive work with higher reps to get great interval cardio as well.
And I thought back to when I DID have legs–when I was running track in high school. With all the sprinting and jumping, I had some serious legs back then. I had a nice quad sweep and calves so big that the 80’s skinny jeans didn’t fit over them. So I figured it worked once, it could work again. I have been going up to the track at Chapin High School and running sprints, doing drills to increase my explosive power, and running and jumpin on the bleachers in the football stadium. And I was right–it has made a big difference. I am starting to see results, and now I am even getting comments from people on my size increase.
Weight-wise, I am at 125 pounds now. I competed at 114 pounds, but some of that loss was water weight/dehyration for the contest. I was usually at about 117 pounds. So I think I have added around 3 or 4 pounds of good muscle. I have also added a bit of bodyfat, which I am not crazy about, but I know it will come off very easily when I start dieting to get cut again. Actually, the only place I can see bodyfat is in my lower abdomen, and like so many women, I am cursed with immediately gaining fat in that area. So I feel that my efforts are paying off, and when I can work with a trainer, I think that a lot of progress will come quickly. I am SO looking forward to that!
Real estate is very busy now, and I am so blessed to be having a great month. Whew, I needed that! It has been so slow during the spring, and it is just a blessing that things are falling into place now. I am so happy for my sellers who have sold their homes–finally. And I am grateful and blessed to have wonderful buyers who actually bought something! That’s been rare!
I have also become involved in an incredible new tele-communications company that is going to revolutionize wireless. I am so excited about it, and what the technology is going to do for my business. It is so far beyond anything else that is currently available, and it is much less expensive too, with a flat plan that has no contracts, no credit checks, no fees and no taxes with truly unlimited voice, email, text and internet service for only $79.95 per month. I decided to become an associate and market the service, because I think it is literally going to change wireless as we know it. It is NOT cellular–it’s way above that. It’s so fast you can download a 2-hr HD movie in four minutes, and then you can tether the device to your TV and watch in HD. You can also pigtail it to your laptop and have cable internet speeds. To me though, the coolest feature is real-time video conferencing with up to six people, at television speeds! (I could literally walk through a home and show it to someone in another state, in real time (not a recorded video), just through the phone!) If you would like to know more about it, shoot me an email at cduffell@sc.rr.com.
On a sadder note, a dear member of my husband’s family is struggling with cancer. We are saddened and deeply concerned. They have chosen chemo, which just tears me up. I am so opposed to that, and it just kills me to watch it happen. But I can’t say a word, other than to send information on alternative treatments that remove the cause of the cancer, and offer support. It is their decision, ultimately. Unfortunately, they are not seeking out the alternative treatments, preferring to place their trust in the conventional medical doctors and their poisons. I support their choice and will bite my tongue until my teeth meet in the middle. I want to scream—”Be Defiant! Stand up for your health! Take control. Find out the cause and remove it–don’t just treat the symptoms and poison the rest of the body at the same time!” But I would be considered crazy for not following doctors’ orders.
I have decided to BE DEFIANT in my own way. I finally convinced Michael to drop my health insurance and I am so happy about it! My personal feeling is that our country’s problem is not that people don’t have enough insurance–they have too much! Now before you think I am crazy, think about it. Insurance gives us carte blanche to eat drink and be merry, and then expect a pill, potion or surgery to fix us right up and make us as good as new. We have no incentive to carefully monitor every food we take into our body, to exercise properly and to avoid toxins like cigarettes and alcohol. But if you don’t have someone else paying for you to run to the doctor every time you get a ‘widdle biddy sniffle’ to get drugs, then you would take a LOT better care of yourself, wouldn’t you? I didn’t use my insurance, and it doesn’t pay for the treatments I actually need which I have to pay for out of my own pocket, plus if something happened, I wouldn’t go to the conventional medical butchers anyway, so the insurance wouldn’t pay for my treatment! So WHY were we paying for this? I feel like I was just subsidizing those who abuse the system to get drugs and surgery to fix the problems that they created in the first place with what they are stuffing in their mouths, destructive habits, and sedentary lifestyles.
Funny how eating normal whole organic food from the earth, using herbs, removing toxins and carcinogens, and supporting the immune system is considered ‘alternative’, and poisonous chemotherapy, radiation, and brutal surgeries to remove body parts is considered normal mainstream treatment. When did our medical system get so twisted? If insurance paid for organic produce, THEN we would see some health care reform!
I have got to get to bed and get some good sleep. You build muscle while you sleep, and I don’t want to deprive myself of any tiny advantage in the muscle-building arena! Plus I have a big day tomorrow–and a good day!
Be Defiant!
Christy
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