Hello from beautiful Lake Jocassee! I won’t get to post this until we get back, because I have no internet up here at all, but I still have the laptop and Microsoft Word! So I figured I would write a little post since it’s pouring rain and there won’t be any boating for a while, unless it clears up a lot. We are staying at Devil’s Fork State Park, in their beautiful cabins which are amazingly well-appointed. But there’s just not much to do at a state park when it’s raining!

So I guess I will do what I like to do on a fall Saturday anyway—glue my rear end to the couch in front of the TV and watch a lot of college football! But I thought I would take advantage of actually having a few minutes of spare time and give you an update.

For some reason, my computer and Shannon’s computer were just not talking to each other, and I had not received my new weight workout schedule. I emailed Shannon several times and she tried to send it several times, but it just wasn’t coming through. So I had been making up my own weight routines based on the workouts from camp and from my first 4 weeks of Bombshell training. I think I did a good job—I kicked my own butt everyday! I would make up the routine beforehand and then make myself stick to it just as if Shannon sent it. Things don’t sound as difficult on paper as they are when you are trying to do them in a circuit routine—whew!

Knowing we were going on this trip, and that I would have no hope of being able to work out while we were here, I only rested one day last weekend, and started my five days of workouts on Sunday. I got in my two cardio workouts every day, in addition to the weights. That was tough, no doubt. Boy was I glad they upped my food intake!  I received my new weight workouts on Wednesday, and all the body part splits were completely changed around, so Shannon said to finish what I was doing and start the new ones on Monday.

The new workouts change the splits completely. Instead of focusing on each bodypart individually, like legs, back, chest, etc., now legs are split up with everything else blended in. So it’s like: hamstrings, calves, shoulders one day and quads, back, biceps the next day. Basically, I will be working legs almost every day and there is a lot less focus on upper body. I assume that’s because I am on the final countdown to contest, and of course legs are by far the hardest body part for women to bring in hard and cut. I am excited to see what the results will be, because I have never been able to get my legs in the condition that I want then to be, no matter what I did. Wow, I am so grateful to have Shannon and Rob’s experience and expertise guiding me now. I realize more and more every day how much I needed a coach and some help on this competition thing!

I totally forgot to take my measurements on Wednesday like I normally do. This week was so crazy, trying to fit in 6 days of work into 4, on top of the 3 workouts a day! So things slipped my mind all week. I did finally remember to at least measure my waist before we left on Friday morning. I had my big, awesome cheat meal on Thursday night, because I didn’t want to haul all the pancake stuff on the trip, and I felt the best time to eat a cheat meal was when I was the most depleted after the five days of intense workouts. So when I got up Friday morning, I was thinking I would be at least a little bloated or retaining water. So I was very surprised when I easily measured a solid 24 inches on my waist—down a half inch! I was thrilled with that! My waist hasn’t been this small since I was in college, and back then I was just tiny-skinny, not muscular like I am now. In college, I got down to only 103 pounds, which for me probably looked anorexic.

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I have to give a shout-out and some love to gorgeous Lake Jocassee. This pristine lake lies on the border of South and North Carolina, nestled in the mountains. It’s so pretty–the mountains literally drop directly into the waters of the lake, with big mountain boulders lining the shoreline, and there are only two small areas on the lake where there are even houses at all. Otherwise it is just Mother Nature’s unspoiled beauty at its best.

A really cool feature of Lake Jocassee is all the waterfalls. There are several scattered around the lake, of varying shapes and sizes. Whitewater Falls is a huge wide rushing waterfall that steps down massive boulders gradually as it boils noisily into the lake. Then there is a very tall falls where the water drops from a high cliff, and near that one, another rocky falls easy to climb up to see the beauty of the water as it rushes through the woods. But the most fun falls is one that drops down a sheer rock face into deep water, and you can literally run your boat right up under the falls! Our dear friends Jack and Deb are with us on the trip and we had a blast at the falls. Check out the following video for our waterfall experience!

It is pouring rain right now. I am so glad that I got all my workouts in before we came up here. I was thinking, well, I could go for a run and do my intervals out on the mountain roads which would be challenging with the steep hills. But I decided it was best to actually get some rest and rejuvenation, and I am glad. There’s no way we can do anything outside right now. Sadly, there will be no boating today. That’s a shame, with all the work and preparation it takes to make one of these boat trips. And we have a great group here of at least 30 people. But we will make the best of it. There will definitely be football involved, as well as some investment strategy groups working on their Texas Hold ‘Em portfolios. (I may have to do some investing myself—I love Texas Hold ‘Em!) And later, we are all planning to pack into our friends’ cabin, fire up 3 grills, and cook out. There will be lots of adult beverages involved too, I am sure! I am just eating my little meals out of my baggies, and not even a sip of adult beverages for me! Fortunately, I could care less about drinking—not even a slight issue for me. But that birthday cake they had last night for one of our friends……….I just had to stay far, far away!

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Back home today–watching a little more football. I am so happy–the Detroit Lions just won their first game in two years, behind rookie quarterback Matthew Stafford from my beloved University of Georgia. So glad to see Matt having such quick success in the NFL. He was great here–and I wish him all the best.

We had a great time last night at a cookout with all our Power Squadron friends. Michael took some beautiful tuna steaks and just barely seared them on the griddle so they were just seasoned outside and completely sushi-grade inside. Wow! Delicious! I didn’t feel deprived at all among everyone else’s steaks. I had my sides that are ‘prescribed’ on the diet, and enjoyed the evening very much. The rest of the group made s’mores. Yum–they smelled so good. I haven’t had s’mores in years and years. Still didn’t, but it was nice just to enjoy the aroma.

For those of you who aren’t familiar, I have been almost completely raw vegan for two years, but with the Bombshell training and diet protocol, I made the difficult decision to re-incorporate some meat into my diet. I still try to do as much raw as possible, and I had still been eating a little sushi anyway, even over the past two years. Now I eat a lot of sushi. Raw is always better, if possible. And I have discovered that some people even promote a ‘primal diet’, which consists of a lot of raw meat, especially beef and chicken. Interesting, but I haven’t gotten that brave yet. I do have a friend that is completely raw, and I was very surprised to see him eating raw chicken one day. He swears it’s great and helped him tremendously as he was struggling with raw foods without meat. He said it didn’t matter what he ate or how much fat or calories were in it, on only plant foods he was a walking skeleton, and now is a very healthy weight. But I do enjoy my sashimi. I also enjoy blending my raw oat groats with raw egg whites—mmmmmmm, tastes like cake batter. It’s even better with one yolk in it, but I can’t do any yolks right now.

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I am going to jump back on my cardio tonight. We are leaving Wednesday to go to Texas to visit Michael’s stepmother, who is bravely battling cancer. He hasn’t seen his family in a long time, so we are excited. I am also excited to get to work out with my really cool niece Angelique, who is in the Army, and is also a personal trainer. And I will get to see my dearest Bombshell ‘Sista’ Angela, who lives near San Antonio. Hopefully, I will get to tell you all about it. But with the travel schedule, I want to make sure to get ALL of my workouts in, so I am going to get a head start. Plus I can only sit still for so long–it’s time for some active football watching. Oh, and tonight is the new season premiere of ‘Dexter’–my FAVORITE show. Yes, macabre I know, but man is it good!

It was a little tough to be Defiant of all the food this weekend, but I am proud to report I made it through almost perfectly, with only the slightest taste of a homemade dessert just to avoid hurting a dear friend’s feelings. It was good–I could have eaten the whole thing, but one must defy those things to keep one’s eye on the goal!

Be Defiant!

Christy

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September 27th, 2009
Categories: Main. Tags: Bombshell, bombshell training, cancer, circuit workout, female raw vegan bodybuilding, fitness, plant-based protein, raw foods, raw vegan, raw vegan protein, Team Bombshell
Author: Christy

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