kimgetspreggo

Yikes stripes! I have been a terrible blogger.  Good news. I've found a new hobby. I'm brewing a baby. I guess I should change the name of this blog to kimgetspreggo. I know this is old news to most by now but in my pretend world maybe I have a follower who isn't down with the latest kim happenings. The little monster should arrive early April. I'm hoping that I have roughly 6 more weeks to be pregnant. Being pregnant has been easy. I'm a great incubator. But I'm getting of tired of feeling like shamu. Without rushing things, I would like this baby to come out as soon as it is ready and not one second later. On with the show already.
Work has been going really well this year. I have 8 kids in my class and 5 fantastic aides. I only have 17 more days of work before I go on maternity leave. How crazy is that?
Big changes are in the air. Lots to be excited for this year. After the babe is born Brent, Flash and I are trading in our winter parkas for flip flops and heading to Florida for a year. He has some training, that in my mind is a lot like the movie Top Gun, that takes a year to complete. I've already got my application in to the district we'll be moving to so now I'm just waiting to hear back from them. Let the job offers begin! Ok, might be a bit early but they should start getting into contact with me in the next couple of months. If not I'll just work on getting a killer tan and hang out with the babe and dog. Sounds like a pretty rad plan B.

finding normal

I am still working on finding a normal relationship with food. I'm tyring to adjust back to a regular diet, but my body says no. I have serious stomach (and gas....mainly gas) issues if I eat anything processed. I thought if I gave it time I would readjust, but its not working out. So not by choice, but for the greater good of humanity, my fellow workers at school, and as a last resort- I'm back to eating clean. I can eat as much brocolli as I want and have no problems, but slip in a piece of bread and I'm a disaster. I've been trying to blame as many farts on Flash and my students as I can, but it is just ridiculous.
Enough about that.
My chickens are all doing well. They poop A LOT. I've had relative success so far. I've only lost one. My latest addition to the flock happened last night. I bought two turkeys and four ducks. I also snuck in two more baby chicks, but those are on the hush hush.

I did not get into the Mt. Marathon race. GD bastards. I'm torn between just running the race anyway as a bandit, saying piss off to the whole event, or going and buying a ticket at the auction. But I desperately need something to train for, or a new hobby of some sort. I am thinking about taking up swimming. When asked who I'd comepete against in that, or what I would be training for my initial response was, London 2012, duh. Michael Phelps. Pshhaw. He's got nothing on me. I meant to go swimming this morning but I forgot about an early meeting and had to postpone my olympic training a day. However, I am still looking for some sort of hobby/event to train for. All suggestions are welcome.

characteristic immoderation

I made the cake pops. Well, I had the kiddos at school make them. It was hardly controlled chaos, but they did turn out. I didn't eat any, but they were visually satisfying.
Last Friday I decided I am not doing the May show. I am retiring from the world of body building. Going out on top. I am still working on developing a normal relationship with food. Now lets talk about the effects of coming off of a super strict diet. I have been farting like no ones business. It is truly braggable and incredibly embarassing and hilarious all at the same time. I can't help but giggle every time I fart. Keep in mind these are not little lady like squeaks that just slip out. I am talking about the burliest of burly farts you've ever been around. It is like something has died and fermented in my gut and is causing some gastrointestinal phenomena.
Chicken update: they are hatching as I type.  I am going to go get them saturday. I'm so excited. The Coops almost finished, which doesn't really matter because they won't be out in it for at least another month. I have the little brooder ready for them. All I did was take a big rubbermaid tupperware and cut the lid off, staple some chicken wire over the top so the light can set right on it and put the feeder and waterer in there. Boom. brooder, done.
Garden update: I have started some vegetable and flowers in the greenhouse. I also took a tarp off and found this huge water fountain thing. It's pretty huge and tacky, I kind of love it.
Nicole and I just got asked to help out with Prom this weekend. Its our fourth year as coat check. We're pretty much pros at hanging up coats and what not. But, we're going to go look at dresses today at the one and only dress shop in the area. The little ladies out there love us. Every year they give me a VIP card which grants me an additional 15% off. I've never used it. But I like the idea of having it.
Did I mention 28 more days of school left. woot woot!

cake pops

I'll admit I have an obsessive tendency. I stopped by JoAnne's Fabric store yesterday(after the gym) and came across this book called Cake Pops, written by Bakerella. Here's her website, she's fantastic.  It's all about cake on a stick. And they are so stinking cute. I can't stop thinking about them. Its not even the eating them part, I just want to make them. The rational part of my brain....which is very small now that I'm on day 5 of low/no carbs....says this is not a good idea. But I have a 9 year olds birthday party to go to on Saturday and I think some cake pops are in order. I can do this.

ketosis

The plan is for the next six weeks cycle my body through ketosis. Ketosis, as I understand it, is the state of being when your body burns fat for fuel instead of carbs. There are many great articles written about it that can explain it a lot better than I can. Here is my favorite so far.  Anyways, its very similiar to the Atkins diet, with a few changes here and there to fit my needs. But, holy crap does it work. It sounds fun too. Eat a lot of fat and loose weight. OK! But the reality is that my total calories haven't gone up, and since I'm eating much higher value foods, it means the amount of food has gone down. so...it might be fun to have two eggs and two sausage links for breakfast...but my lunch of one can of tuna and one tbsp of mayo leaves a bit to be desired. But I'm dropping weight like crazy again. Which is good, because in the few days that I was off of the plan I gained a crap ton of weight. I know most of it was water weight from right after the show but still it is scary to see the scale jump up twenty pounds in two days. Plus, I just felt gross in my own skin. Like I was bloated against myself. I told Darin about this feeling and he said its normal, mainly because I was really bloated. My muscles were retaining every carb and every ounce of water I was putting back into my body. But since being on this new diet I've dropped back down to 172- which is still about ten pounds heavier than I was at the show, but I'm sure it'll come off. So anyways, I'm doing three low carb days followed by one high carb day, then two low carb, one high and that's what I'm doing for three weeks. Then I have my keto run which is 14 days of low/no carbs. whoa. and then peak week right before the show. This is officially phase two of the science experiment on my body.

chicken news: two weeks until hatching!

cabin news: the cabinets are in place, trim is painted and hung, upstairs bathroom is ready to be painted. its coming together quite nicely. you should all come and visit. book it.

we need a plan

I emailed Darin and told him I was in for the May show but that I wanted to be leaner. He said he has a plan that we need to discuss to change my diet around so that I burn more fat. Well shoot, that sounds great. Why wasn't I doing this before? I'm sure it's going to suck a lot. Darin's ideas are never fun. But I'm super curious as to what the changes are going to be.

May 14, 2011

I'm doing the show. 6 weeks from Saturday. Here we go again....

now what.

The show came and went very fast. The entire week before the show was not fun. I really don't remember much, it's almost like I was black out drunk the whole time. But I do know it was miserable. I don't think the carb cycling and water depletion really did that much for me anyway. If I did another show I think I would skip that part. The carb cycling for sure. And just do the water reduction right at the end. I think that would give me better results and be much more tolerable....for everyone.
The afternoon show was a blur. The poses were called so fast I couldn't harldy get into one before the next was already being called. I don't think I posed too well. But hey, I was the only one in my division and it was my first time. so...I guess it was ok. I just don't think I got lean enough. I still looked really heavy from the belly button down. Ugh. So if I do the May show I need to still cut weight and up my cardio and all I really want to do right now is binge out on the pot-luck going on in the teachers lounge. I ate two pieces of pizza saturday night. They were amazing. I could have ate a lot more. I easily could have finished the entire pizza, but I also didn't want to get sick. So I kept it in check. But my blood sugars were so messed up that I couldn't get to sleep until 2:30 in the morning and then I was up at 4, thinking about the waffles at the continental breakfast. I waited until 6 and went down to check out the waffle situation and they were out of batter. I almost burnt the place down with my rage. But instead  I went to breakfast at the Snow City Cafe- it was awesome. And I didn't get sick from it either. I was totally bloated and I've been making some pretty bad farts, but no explosive poops or pukes so I'm calling it a victory.
I went to the gym last night and ran two miles and lifted a bit and tried to work my abs, but I still felt too bloated. I couldn't breathe because my gut was in the way. Then when I came home my calves started cramping up really bad. I was a mess. I didn't make it to the gym this morning, but I'll go after school.
I'm technically back on the diet and training again. But I'm not sure about the show. I'm not sure this is my style.

ta daa

weigh in

I had my first weigh in yesterday. It was less stressful than anticipated. There are about 40 competitors, mostly male of course. But maybe 10 girls total. I think I'm the only novice girl, which is great- I win! But also means that I'll go up against whoever wins the open division. But whatever, I'm ready.
I am a disgusting color of burnt rust/dirty brown right now. It really does make my eyes and teeth look alarmingly white. That is about the only positive thing that I can come up with for perks of painting yourself.
Cutting water is harder than cutting food. I like to be able to drink as much as I want, whenever I want. This dehydrating bit sucks.
I have to lay on blankets I brought from home so I don't ruin the hotel sheets. That's how dark I am.
Today I'm suppossed to have a lot of carbs so that my muscles look "full" but I don't know what that means really. So...I think I'll wait until my friend Lissa gets here- she's done a couple figure shows- and let her tell me if my muscles look full. She gets the great job of glueing my bikini to my body. No wardrobe failures possible with this glue. Thank goodness, because that bikini has a way of going right up my butt like you wouldn't believe.

team sweetcorn

I am the luckiest girl in the world. I was walking through the office at school yesterday and recieved a delivery of flowers, from someone with a very thick accent, the delivery girl told me. When I read the card and saw that it was from my parents I just giggled and said, yeah they're from Iowa. I love the flowers, they made my day extra special. It seems like the timing is always spot on with right when I need a boost something really good happens. Like the time I was really dragging and didn't want to do my afternoon set of cardio but I went in and as I walked in the owner of the gym gave me free sweats and a sweatshirt to wear at the competition. That got me all excited and definitely helped me through that cardio session. Last week I got a package from a friend full of some treasures and a super nice card. She sent me a bottle of spray tan(more on that later) some rockin sunglasses and  a cookbook, which I promptly read front to back and have already imagined all of the things I'll burn. A few weeks ago my friend Kelsey gave me a card with a coffee gift card in it, just to say thanks for being a friend. I'm sure there are about a million more nice things people have done for me, helped me with, even just nice comments, all of these things have really helped me stay focused and on track. It really does take a team. I couldn't have done this alone, and am really appreciative for all my friends and family, and coworkers who have helped me along this transformation.

Ok, enough serious talk.

Last night I was home alone with several bottles of spray tan. I decided to go for it. That might have been a mistake. I am now a dirty shade of spottedness. My skin id weird in places. Maybe thyroid related? But yes mom. I am taking my pill. But I'll investigate that further later. Anyways, there are patches on my stomach and around my armpits and the back of my neck that maybe don't shed skin as fast as the rest of my body and these patches are now REALLY dark. I'm a leopard. But in reality that sounds a lot sexier than it actually is. Hopefully, the really dark stuff covers it up. Otherwise.....maybe the judges will have a cat fetish?  However, I showered this morninng and the spots dont' look soo bad. Definitely still there, but I think I'm going to have to see a doctor to find out what they are caused by and what I need to do to get rid of them, and there's no way thats going to happen before the show. So spots are what I'm working with.

Reducing my water today to one gallon. It should be ok. One gallon is still quite a bit. It's weird but after two days of no carbs and 50 yesterday- now I'm supossed to have 80 today and I feel fat and bloated. On the brink of desperate, with thoughts that I need to do more, workout more, lift more, do something drastic. But I'm holding on to the knowledge that Darin is the man, he knows what he's talking about. There is more science to this than I'm aware of and I just need to relax and stick to the plan. I've done all I can. I left the gym this morning and realized it was the last workout, I still have cardio tonight- don't worry- double cardio never stops, but as far as lifting. I'm done. I'm nervous that I'm going to look soft or fat by saturday. But I'm also aware that I'm a total nutcase.

carbs are great!

I'm back on carbs. I had a half a cup of oatmeal this morning and feel alive again. Its crazy how I almost instantly felt better. The effects of the macronutrients on the body truly are amazing. I only get 50g today...and none of it will be from candy...but I'm still pretty excited. I got waxed last night. Check that off my list of things I ever want to do again. Saying it hurts is a bit of an understatement, but I'll spare you the details. I did my last lower body workout today and will do my last upper body workout tomorrow. I also gotta get my nails done, have one last posing session with Darin, and start painting my body with the spray tanner. Phew.

day two of no carbs

i made it through day one of no carbs. but i am struggling today(and it's only 10:00am). i can't wait until my workout tomorrow morning is over and I can have 25g of carbs pronto. that's 1/2 cup of oatmeal- which is double what I'd usually eat. I'd trade it all for some swedish fish and skittles. but that's apparently "not a good idea" according to Darin. He never thinks my ideas are good. I just have to remember that my ideas got me to 254 and his ideas got me to 158. i hate being wrong.
i get waxed today. pretty much from the eyebrows down. there is not much fun involved in waxing.

goodbye glycogen

today and tomorrow. no carbs. as in zero. not even carbs from veggies or protein shakes. brace yourself, this could get ugly. if i make it to wednesday the battle will be won.


big news, totally unrelated. I have 25 chickens on order currently being incubated and will be ready to go home April 16th. I couldn't be more excited. My next blog will have to be about me becoming a farmer. kimgetsdomestic or keepingupwithkimandthechicks... I'll think of something clever.  I have decided to name all the chickens after female singers. kelly clarkson, lady gaga, madonna, beyonce....you get the picture.

punch a hole in your throat

i'm not going to lie, these last two weeks before the competition are/have been brutal. I'm really low on carbs, energy, and fat. I know I'm not any fun to be around. I'm over emotional, super sensitive, and have no patience. I can't remember something from one thought to the next. Easily distracted. Everything takes me longer to accomplish than it should. My time in the gym has increased, bot because I'm doing more, or chatting more, I'm just not able to attend to the task at hand. It takes me a few seconds to snap out of it and all those seconds add up to about an extra 45 minutes. Its ridiculous. But this is the week. the last week. I really have only two more hard days Monday and Tuesday with 0 carbs...well, less than 20 hopefully. Carbs are everywhere, even in my protein shakes, so those are going to be hard to avoid- i guess if I just stick to turkey breast and chicken breast. hmmm, that could be tricky.
the past couple of days I've been waking up hungry around 2 or 3. Two days ago I woke up and had a protein shake and went back to bed. Yesterday I made it through with just some water. Today I woke up, didn't want to eat or drink anything so I calculated out in my head the time I would need to get ready go to town, get a coffee, get gas and be at the gym at 7 when they open. It is impossible to get a coffee in this town before 7. frickin insane! I could burn this city down with my anger. but that might just be the lack of carbs talking, so I'll keep it in check and wait for the gym to open so I can go about my day. but i've been up since 2:30 so if anyone looks at me funny there's a good chance I'm going to flip out.

big news. I weighed in at 160 this morning. That means I actually weigh what my drivers license says I weigh. First time for everything. Mom says I should go get a new one and knock off 20 pounds. best idea of the morning.

redoubt reporter

http://redoubtreporter.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/building-on-a-goal-—%C2%A0weight-loss-turns-into-gain-of-new-competitive-interest/


it's a very well written article on what I've been doing. And the pictures are kind of funny too.

I still need to practice/come up with/practice my routine. ahhh crap.

8 more days. i can do this.

two weeks to go

i have less than that actually. 12 days. but who's counting right. i'm getting to the stupid phase. my body fat is now 11.1. I have noticed that I'm not able to talk as well as I used to. Words don't come to me as easily as they used to. I forget everything. I've been told that sometimes its like I don't understand English anymore. In the evenings I have a hard time doing much. I can't seem to focus or stay on task. It takes me longer in the gym too, just getting weights racked and put away it takes me a little longer. The best way I can describe it is that you know how when you bring one of those 3D picture books to your face and zone in on it so that the image appears, that's what is happening to me all the time. I'm coming in and out of focus all day.  here are some pics.

goodbye never never land

I'm so glad Peter Pan is over. It feels like I have so much time. Big sigh of relief. I've slightly changed my diet to include only whole foods- so nothing refined or processed....and all that really means is that now at lunch time instead of a sandwich thin, I have 4oz of sweet potatoes for carbs. They're delicious. And I'm off of tuna and onto chicken and salmon twice a week. Muscles are starting to show up. This week I'd like to welcome triceps to the show.

10 sets?! what.

My workouts have been tweaked for the final three weeks and then there is peak week- seven days out from competition...but I'll worry about that later. Right now, I'm just trying to get through Peter Pan and do my double cardio and now my weights have been changed to super high sets. I usually would do three, maybe four sets at the most. So upping it to ten has made me incredibly sore. But hopefully it will make my muscles a lot more defined. That's the goal anyways. Darin hasn't let me down yet, so I guess I'll just keep doing what he says. 24 more days!

my suit is here!!!

These maybe aren't the best pictures, I mean I'm in the teacher's lounge bathroom, trying to be fast because I don't really want anyone to walk in on me. But it fits. It's teeny tiny and fierce. I love it. all the important parts are covered, and nothing more.