Monday, July 31, 2006

Starting Over

Well, the new forum has skyrocketed my motivation, which is just what I needed! I started a new challenge today, and so far so good. Eating was clean today and I had my first upper body workout in a long time and it felt great! I didn't lower my weights, I kept them the same. I couldn't get the last five of my bench presses out, but I completed everything else. Now something is helter skelter with that. If I haven't had an upper body workout in over a month I should have lost muscle. In fact, I know I've lost muscle and definition so I'm thinking that I wasn't putting everything into my workouts before that I could have been!

I have new goals, which I've set forth on the blends forum, along with my stats. I was meaning to take pics tonight, but it was too hectic. Hopefully I'll get them done tomorrow night. It won't be pretty though. I'm up to 151 pounds. What's weird is, although I am "thicker" than I was when I first started BFL, I don't feel as fat. And I'm almost 10 pounds heavier than when I first started, but my measurements and BF% aren't as bad. Strange. Anyhoo...my challenges will be mini goals rather than one huge goal all lumped into one challenge.

I have deleted all of my progress pics and stats from Tracker. I just want to start all over. I'm not sure if I'll be listing my progress there as well. I haven't decided yet. I know I have different reasons than most for going to Tracker less. My reasons were simply that I couldn't get my groove back with BFL, and when I did go on and check out the postings I didn't see anything that I could help with since I wasn't setting a good example, nor was I getting any motivation from it. Sure I would get riled from time to time from some of the drama, but I could handle that. I just pick and choose what I really want to read, no matter what forum it was under. I don't really know what happened this last time around, but have pieced a little together. But to tell the truth, I don't want to know what happened. Do I like to hear people bashing each other, whether they use their names or not? No. I don't care who you are or who said what to whom, but I would have hoped that people could just be decent and considerate of others. To me, some were humorous at times, but I just see it as downright rude now. And that's all I'm gonna say about that.

So anyway, I am really gung-ho about this challenge, and I do think that the vibe, members and energy from the new site is just what I needed.

Jeremy - To answer your question, the officials at the tournament did not catch on that Kaylee was on both teams. That's why I said that I will take it that them losing was their punishment for cheating in the first place.

Oh, and August 1st is my 1 year BFL Anniversary