Getting Ready for First Figure Competition

[cw801]

Wow......I had a couple bites of white rice with my bare chicken salad today and I felt like I was cheating.........dang, girl.....when you do it, you do it right! LOL!!

Well, nothing you can do to take it back, so from here on out it's damage control.......eat super clean, do what you gotta do to be ready for your shoot. Don't focus on how badly you cheated......just put it out of your mind and look ahead, or else you will have guilt and it could cause you to cheat some more.....

I do worry about what is causing you to binge, though? I can't imagine eating all that in a week, let alone one day?

Maybe you can do what I do.....I stick a bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips in my freezer......I snack on a few when I feel like I need some chocolate. (I freeze them because then I usually just suck on them.....if I can eat them, I will wind up eating more, faster) I used to have a huge sweet tooth.......doing this has really helped me control my cravings. Plus, semi-sweet chocolate isn't ALL bad.....Wish I was strong enough to totally cut out all sugars....maybe some day. In the meantime, just having a few little chocolate chips goes a LONG ways in keeping me out of the bad parts of my freezer and cupboards!

 

[sara_xo]

Food and I have always had a special connection haha. I used to be a huge closet eater, so I find when I'm stressed out about something (right now it's money, and I'm in the middle of moving, and trying to sell my horse and keep competing) I tend to buy anything that's bad and sit in my car and eat it. If people can't witness me eat it I wont. It's way easier for me to go through work and if I could just go from work to home without there being any temptations I would be fine.. I was 154lbs the day of the cheat, now I'm sitting at 158.4. I THINK it's mostly water but we'll see.

I'm doing a slight carb depletion for the next two days, and a water load (trainer planned it) and then flip the two. Water depletion and a little carb load, boyfriend and I are having my last cheat, but I don't think I'll go as crazy because I'm with him. And then It's game time. Right now it's just a matter of making sure I hit the gym and do my morning cardio up until the shoot, even when he's here I don't care about getting up and leaving him in my place while I go for a run.

Anyways, time for work, I'll check back in a bit to see if anyone else has decided to post anything new.

xo

 

[musclemom]

Oh, Sara ...

Emotional eating is bad. That's not a cheat, that's a binge dear. You need to get a handle on this, seriously. Bingers closet eat and they go for sweets and carbs in a huge way.

You need to find a way to channel the frustration and aggrivation differently. When you start feeling overwhelmed you need to get yourself out of that head space, journal, pray, meditate, or if worst comes to worst, grab a bottle of water and take a 15 minute power walk. One binge can completely screw you up for more than two days. It's very stressful to the body. No different than going to the bar and tying one on.

If you can resist the urge to overeat for about 10 minutes you can usually get past it, but you have to remember to rechannel and find another way to release the frustration because otherwise it just keeps gnawing at you.

 

[sara_xo]

I know I know.. I have always had a hard time with food.. I was anorexic for in 6th grade, then I went in to and ED - NOS. things when down hill when it became apart of my OCD and I ended up becoming over weight in grade 11.

I can ignore the cravings when I get on a roll and I have the right motivation..

WHICH I DID! And then I went home for my birthday, (21st) and drank with my girlfriends and boyfriend and then my boyfriend made me pancakes and took me out for a cheat meal. when I got home, it was almsot as if I had a hard time concentrating on keeping my diet and gym going (but I was also as I said in the middle of having to move and I only have about 4 hours after work that I can utilize for the gym and my own time).

So now that I'm all moved it, it's going to go back to how it was before, and I'm going to push these last 12 weeks harder than I have ever. I need to step on stage in 12 weeks, I can't let myself down again when it comes to a competition... I have bought enough chicken beef and fish for the next month, and veggies I buy as i need them. But I get my new diet plan on Saturday and I'm going to rock it out hard!

 

[sbt2082]

Sounds like you've got a new found motivation!!

KTS this final 12 weeks til showtime!!

 

[sara_xo]

Trying new diet is:

Breakfast:
1 cup egg whites
1/4 cup oats

Snack:
20 almonds
1/2 cup cottage cheese

Lunch
5 oz chicken breast
1 cup broccoli
1/2 cup brown rice

Snack:
20 almonds
1/2 cup cottage cheese

Pre Workout - 6:30pm
Post Workout Shakes with a Banana

Dinner:
6 oz white fish
1 cup asparagus

Might change again in the next little bit if it's not what my trainer wants to see on me. Waiting on the new workout plan.

 

[musclemom]

Damn girl, that's tight. How many calories are you supposed to be taking in?

 

[sara_xo]

That's what my trainers put me on. I get some simple sugars that are in sauces and stuff. But minimal sodium now.

It's 1230 cals - 30g's fats - 2055.5mg sodium - 71 carbs - 171g's protein

 

[sara_xo]

Ahh edited! didn't have a post workout banana in there (and i look forward to those lmao)

Cals - 1317
Fats - 30.5g
Sodium - 2056.5mg
Carbs - 98g
Protein - 172g

 

[cw801]

That actually looks ALOT like my food schedule......although I only have one serving of almonds, usually!