What a journey

Wow! Over and done with. 14 weeks of preparation, hard work and dedication all behind me. It is such a great feeling to know all your hard work paid off in the end. I must say it feels weird having all this free time in hand, on the other hand it is nice to be more relaxed and enjoy life a little outside of the gym to enjoy other venues, such as biking, hiking, eating out and spending time doing completely non gym related stuff.

I was so happy to have finished as strong as I did. I placed 12th in my height class in my first national show and being in the top 15 is already an honor within itself. I am proud to announce that I am as of now retiring from this sport to focus on developing my nutrition and personal training business and staying fit as I indulge into this new chapter in my life. I am 28 years old and have dreams that are big and far beyond what I can even put down on paper. It is important that I make time to grow into my future dreams without being so committed to only life within the gym.

I also plan on getting married and having wonderful children within the next three years and I know competing takes a toll on your body especially after doing 8 shows within a four year period. It excites me to think of finding balance in my life, and being the best that I can be in many different aspects of my life not just winning on stage.

I appreciate you all embarking upon my journey with me and I will have future blogs possibly on my life and how I plan out my business and private life while still keeping fit and inspiring many others along the way!!!!!

Thanks again to all who made this journey possible. A special thanks goes to Kelly Valdez, my nutritionist in Hawaii who monitored my daily progress, Helvio DeCarvhallo my trainer here in San Diego who made me actually cry one session during a leg workout, my wonderful client Deb Stephenson who drove up to Las Vegas 5 days early to support me in my last week of prep while my boyfriend was in Puerto Rico, my amazing supportive boyfriend Peter Seguinot who stood by my side cheering me on the entire way loving and supporting me for my passion, Sabrina for doing an amazing makeup and hair job the day of my show, Mercedes and Rich(San Diego), Liz and Al(San Diego), Maurius(San Diego), Amy and Jason (San Diego),Ellen and Eugene(Oklahoma), Shane(Hawaii), Helen and Tobias (Sweden) for traveling to Las Vegas to watch and support and anybody and everybody whom I forgot to list who were supportive along the way. I can't describe in words enough how appreciative I am for that. All you guys thank you as well for writing wonderful things on my blog to keep me going and thank you for all the texts and phone calls to stay tuned in on the big day of the show.

Two days to go!

Holly crap the time has come, I am no longer working out just eating and relaxing comparing my body as I fill it with carbs to make sure all the carb loading, water depleting and sodium depleting happens the way it is supposed to. Thanks to my nutritionist Kelly, we are keeping a close eye on my physique with me sending him pictures every morning and every night from here on out so we can make adjustments as need be. I will keep you posted on what I experiencing throughout the next couple of days.

Deb and I are having a blast, eating, chilling, shopping and sleeping. Wow I am so appreciative of her coming all this way to support me before the big event helping with pictures and all, here are a couple from this am enjoy!

Day 87

Things are coming down to the wire. I am winding down, this week is the last week of pushing weights. I am making sure that I get a great pump lighter weight in and out is my motto this week. It is time to really start visualizing myself on stage and really feeling 100 percent confident with my posing.

I am glad I am so ahead with my planning. It doesn't seem rushed and all is going according to plan which is awesome. I have friends from Sweden flying in tomorrow whom will stay with me and bring great energy to the house until I fly out to Vegas next Tuesday. My sweet lover is flying to Puerto Rico this Wednesday and I will not see him until Friday the day before the show, really am going to miss him, however, looking at the positive side of things I will get great rest and have something to look forward to when I am out in Vegas.

I am going to bed early tonight and really pounding the Vitamin C, Lysine, B's and Zinc to really make sure I am feeling strong and healthy and able to finish this week out strong without any setbacks, which is going to happen. I am healthy, whole and complete!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Goodnight guys love ya all and crap in two weeks I will be eating some yummi food yayyyyyy!

Day 83

Seriously I don't think I have had an arm workout such as today for a long time. I can barley lift my arms and they feel so fatigued I love it:) It was worth it to get into the gym early this morning and do the workout so that I could enjoy my massage afterwards and have the rest of the day off to relax and catch up on some rest:)

Wow 15 days in counting. Weird I received a text today from Link my posing coach saying that our prejudging was going to be moved from Friday evening till Friday morning and that all the competitors were going to hear from the promoter soon. I guess the show has grown so drastically with so many competitors that they have to start earlier than planned???? Will keep you posted.

Next week is the first trial run of my carb load so we can see how my body responds. I am going to go into depletion phase Saturday, Sunday and Monday and start loading Tuesday, however I will keep you posted on what is going to happen.

Have a great Friday everybody!

Day 82 Fired up!

Today was awesome! I had a great day in all aspects. Met up with my posing coach again which was good for my motivation to stay focused for these last few weeks. I feel confident and I look much more polished and graceful than previous sessions, thank goodness everything is coming together nicely:) I set up one final session next week Wednesday to go over any last minute corrections that need to be addressed and then the following Monday before I fly out to Vegas we are going to take a look at my physique in my suit one last time and see how it all looks put together:) It is insane how the last few weeks the most changes in physique occur. All that hard work and the last two weeks is where the work will really pay off and show. I am already dreaming of my chocolate cake post show and my bowl of fresh fruit the morning after yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi!

I am psyched for my high carb day tomorrow, yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!! I am also treating myself to a massage tomorrow, a much needed one:) I will sacrifice sleep early am and get my arm workout done before my 7 am client to enjoy the benefits after the massage and take it easy and spend some much needed time to relax hopefully with my baby since it is his day off as well.

Wow, counting the days of weight training I have left is only 11 days including my days off now since I will do extra abs, calves and or inner outer thigh stuff to tighten up! Then posing and relaxing in Vegas watching funny movies and prepping mentally for the big day. I have dedicated almost 12 weeks to this intense training and I can say the journey thus far has been really worth it and I feel proud of how far I have come. I am determined to finish of strong and give my all until the very end!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO STRONG ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Day 81 countdown begins

Alright, moved in, connected to the Internet officially full access from here on out until I leave for Vegas.

Wow these past two weeks have been tough. I have really hit some lows, but my mindset is positive and upbeat. I am hanging in there and trucking away working really hard especially this next week and a half. I really need to listen to my body these next three weeks and be kind to myself if I need to slow down. I really have filled my mind with positive thoughts, and visualizing the smile on my face when on stage and all my hard work shows. I am excited and am enjoying the rest of my journey.

It is so nice to be so supported by my boyfriend, fellow workers, friends and clients. I can't stress enough the impact a positive word can do for me. It can fuel me with energy and kick the fatigue in a heartbeat so thank you so much everybody.

Plans are coming more together. My suit will be ready for pick up Monday the 20th:) My wonderful client Deb is coming out to Vegas with me early to be there to support me and provide transportation in case we need to run last minute errands. I have to wonderful friends who are flying all the way in from Sweden to stay with me the week before the show and help with any necessary things, also nice to have great positive energy come my way friends from way back when:)

I have my last nail and waxing appointments booked for Monday and Tuesday before I fly out of town and am still working on a hair and makeup appointment for prejudging and finals.

All in all I will keep you updated and report daily from here on out. Thanks again for all your support and love!

Way toooooo long

Finally back in action. I am back from traveling and just got moved into a new place all while training and strictly staying on track with everything. I apologize for being so out of touch, I still have no computer but as of Tuesday this will change we are getting the Internet hooked up and you can cheer me on the last final weeks for I will really need your support everybody.

I am not going to lie, these last two weeks especially have been pretty tough not only physically but also mentally. I have stepped into the extreme mode, where we are pushing to the limits for the next two weeks to try and have me stage ready so that we can play with my diet the last two weeks and figure out the perfect carb load phase for my body and this show. Wow three weeks left today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't believe it is so near, finally all the hard work is about to show.

Things are falling into place just as I imagined them to. Nothing can stand in my way I am on a roll and focused till the last drip of sweat leaves my forehead.

I received my sponsorship check from Hawaii, lined up a makeup artist, my spray paint session, will have my food cooked and ready to roll for the four days that I am out there and have time to rehearse posing and relax while getting mentally ready for my big day.

My suit should be done in two weeks going for my last fitting tomorrow morning after cardio/pictures and yes, I will post them ASAP:) Will try to have them up at least by Wednesday when our computer and Internet is hooked up. K, stay tuned and check in and see this body transform into something out of this world :)

Love you all