10 Weeks Out

Ohhh boy my last double digit is here for my weeks out until the NY Grand Prix! I am getting really excited and nervous now when I think about how close it is getting. This week has been a rough week in my eyes as far as keeping on track with my workouts and most definitely with eating right. Let's talk about eating right for a minute here.

I will be the first to admit that I have an "inner fat kid" in me and as horrible as that sounds, its true. I know that I have come such a long long way from when I started and I am more proud of that than I usually show. I do have a small obsession with food and especially the food we in the healthy/fitness world deem "bad". For example, I like to call myself an ice cream expert. If you were to go out with me and get ice cream I could probably tell you all about the flavor if you didn't know about it or what was in it. Candy is another product that I feel I am pretty knowledgeable on and can tell you all about. When I go out and get froyo (frozen yogurt) with my wife and friends, I usually load up on all sorts of candy for my toppings like chocolate peanut butter cups, bits of Oreos, Reeses pieces, M&M's etc. Clearly I have an obsession with the goodies and it can be bad at times where I will binge on it. The last couple of days have seemed to be this way unfortunately. My clean eating has been worked in between all of the bad food choices but I still feel slightly guilty AFTER I eat it. The whole point of a "cheat meal" is to help you mentally and you are not supposed to feel bad other wise it's pointless to do. With that being said, 10 weeks out I know that my eating will be at 110% on track and any "cheat meal" I do decide to throw in will be carefully scheduled and done in a proper way. Not an all out food frenzy.

10 weeks out is still a lot of time to prepare for my show and I know for sure that I can prepare to change my body to what it needs to look like and be stage ready. I usually spend all my time on the computer doing one of two things and they are either looking up food recipes that I can enjoy that are clean because I love to cook or it spent looking up information on bodybuilding. You can never know to much in the bodybuilding world and you are always learning new things. That is one thing I love about this sport. I have done my research and have a game plan on how my diet is going to be setup as far as my macro-nutrients are going to be for every meal.

Let the grind begin and my emotional roller coaster begin for that matter as well. I will have my days where I am feeling great and on point and I know I am going to have my days where I want to give up and ask why I am I doing this. In the end, it will all be worth it!