7 WEEKS OUT- Kelowna Western Canadians

OK....7 weeks and counting!!!!....It was a good week of hard training and clean eating!  There was no weight-ins this week and no BF testing but I did drop another pound and feel leaner. Here is a sneak peek of my progress and the only one I will post before the show!!!! Gotta keep some mystery of the before and after’s and 12 weeks in between :)

My last letter to myself....or better said my FAT as its kind of hanging out where I need it to come off.

"Dear FAT! I see you do not like hanging out in my upper body I appreciate that and love my abs, however anytime you’d like to begin coming off of my legs and ass, that would be really great. I only have 7 weeks Thank you!!!!"

This made me laugh the moment I posted this to my Facebook page....and I reread it when I need to focus on doing more lunges more squats more dead lifts.....I now dream of these "Three Musketeers" as I call them....pretty much every night!!!! More More More.....and then I wake up at 5 a.m. exhausted when hear my husband start the Cappuccino machine for our morning Americano's and get ready to do cardio as soon as our gym opens at 6 am. That machine although not very loud is my queue to get up....somehow my body just knows it's that time. Strange!

So far I have enjoyed the process of transforming my body....I find it fascinating what can be accomplished with a little tweaking here and there, however that has come with some unusual cravings....at least they are unusual for me. Pizza, Ice Cream ....among a few. I don't eat these things as a choice for a cheat meal or have ever craved them before....I frankly don't like pizza...What can I say and Ice Cream is only welcome with some sort of warmed dessert....OK now it going to get ugly and out of control so I better stop... but YES the craving are driving me a little crazy and I am sure they are driving Andrew crazy too....as I am a bit short with everything I do these days....It can be the simplest thing as getting a glass of water that will irritate me out of the blue....So weird...I am not hungry!

After all....I do eat 6 well balanced meals a day...so it’s not the hunger getting to me...It’s my mind!

Anyhow enough about my food drama...It's a New Week and I am pumped to make a breakthrough in my legs and a** this week....Any pointers send them over!!!!

Leigh Brandt IFBB Bikini Pro...my amazing trainer tells me it’s all gonna come in the last few weeks....Well it’s the last few weeks and its not budging....lol....I am probably freaking out since this is my first competition.

Now if I can only master posing I will be golden.....ha ha ha...This is another topic that needs a full blog by it's self....I won't go there but I can say one thing...You're only as good as your posing! I totally believe that to be true....I didn’t before starting the process but now I see the difference when I give it a 100% and when I don't.  It has to be perfect as you can have the best body and if you don't show it off with confidence and pride it’s useless. You're only on stage for 90 seconds or so....if you get called out for comparisons maybe then a little longer...but in the scope of things it’s a relatively short amount of time compared to all the meal planning and training, but the preparation that goes into it is intense. To the average person it may seem so simple but its actually hard work and I am pooped after a full hour of posing in 5" heels. I can't wait to get home eat and not move off the couch for at least an hour and YES my back and every little muscle is sore as if I just did a mega workout.

I can't imagine what the next... well now less than 7 weeks will look like with my meal plan changing this Saturday, evaluating my progress pictures for training tweaks, daily posing practice at home and weekly with my Body By Brandt team! We all look so good I can't wait to get to stage!!! And the best part of it all is that my honey it going to be there right along my side. We will cheer each other on!

I think that's it for this week. Looking forward to the week especially with Easter fast approaching and a few extra days off work it will be nice to plan out meals for the following few weeks!

Till next week and Thank you for Reading

Grace xo