2009 Monster Mash Recap

OMFG! What a wonderfully fantastic weekend!!! I will try to cover just my “side” of the story, since I know that Bec and Jes will probably want to post their own experiences.

Sooo…. as y’all know, I worked half a day Friday. I come home, change clothes, and LOW AND BEHOLD, I have freaking abs. I’m all excited. I snap a cell pic and text it to my Monster Mash buddies, as well as my friends Michele and Amber. They all know how I obsess about not having them. I also weighed a measley 111.8 that morning. Dr. Joe gave me more food, and I was filling out quite nicely. At the end of the night, I started to look smooth and the abs were disappearing. Bummer. I think I peaked a day early.

So, I lug my junk into the car and take off on my merry way. I’m anxious and excited. I’m wondering what Tasha, Bec, and Jes will be like in real life. I get there before anyone else, and check in, carry all of my crap to the second floor because this hotel has not had a renovation since the Civil War… LOL There are no elevators or anything, and everything just looks old. The room is hot and musty. It was clean, though, and that’s all that matters, right?! Tasha arrives shortly after me… EEP!! <– I think that is the sound I made when I answered the door. LOL! Jess and Becca arrived a little later, and we all squealed like girls, of course!! It was like we had all known each other for years!

I’m missing details, I am sure… oh yeah, we did early check in that evening. The people working the registration (expeditors? I don’t know what to call them… let’s just call them the “crew”)… Anyways, the crew kept asking if I was Bikini all damn weekend long. I wanted to stomp and whine, “I’m FIGURE!!” LOL! It was getting on my nerves. Funny thing, they kept asking Becca if she was Figure.

That night the Bikini girls got to drink wine… I didn’t want to be left out, so I did have a sip! Less than half an ounce. I weighed it. LOL!

The next day we were up bright and early. I went for a 15 minute walk around the hotel. It was freaking COLD! Then Bec painted us all… well, except Tasha. Duh! So, there were three naked girls sauntering from room to room. LMFAO. Oh to be a male fly on that wall. HA! I put my face paint on (LOL!) and forgot to moisturize first. Apparently I am drier around the mouth and on my forehead. Well, when I got done w/ my makeup and looked in the mirror in the natural light, the makeup had caked around my mouth and on my forehead. I looked like I had a 5 o’clock shadow. Damn. So, I just put moisturizer on over top of my makeup. Thankfully, it worked. No crisis… yet.

We get to the venue after numerous U-turns… Becca is the only driver I know who actually stops the car and pulls a U-y whenever the GPS asks her to! LOL! We get there, the meeting is slow, and then we go to the changing closet, I mean, dressing room. The room is tiny, CRAMPED, hot, ugh… there were exactly 100 competitors at the show… the majority female… and ONE TOILET! Oh lordy!

Anyways, we get through prejudging. I’m the last in my class, again. Sweet. I can dig it. The class is a monster, so I was happy to go out last so that I didn’t have to stand out there as long! LOL! We do our presentation and quarter turns, I get confused somewhere along the way, and when we are asked to go back in line, I didn’t know if that meant where we were standing or in the order we are currently standing. Yeah, oops. The audience got a chuckle and so did I. Why I don’t get embarrassed over dumb crap like that, I do not know. Maybe I’m just used to being an idiot!

During pre-j, they call the top 5 out. I was the first one called in my little group. I walk up to the #5 spot. We all line up, then they move me first, again… straight to the #1 spot on the floor. I stand there in my dreaded relaxed pose (I hate this pose) while they shuffle people around me. We do quarter turns and I get called out for doing too much of a twist, only I don’t realize they are talking to me. DOH! LOL! I stopped twisting once I figured it out. Thank goodness they don’t penalize for stupidity.

Figure was after Bikini, so once I got off stage we were allowed to go. I try to nap because I am exhausted and have not slept in days… I have too much energy from the show, though, and can’t sleep. I did lay there half asleep for about an hour, managed to drool on myself some, and when the alarm went off, I got up and started to fix the mess I made of myself. I pull my shirt off in the bathroom and my chest and neck are GREEN! GREEN!!!! Oops. I’m not panicking, though. I go off to the main section of the room and show off my green-ness. LOL! They confirmed. I was green. So, I take a damp wash cloth and lightly scrub the green off. I applied Dream Tan over the lighter areas to blend in it again. Another crisis dodged! I used Jan Tana Ultra 1 that morning, so I wasn’t sure how it would look.

Night show ran so smooth. I was in mean mode, though, so I just sat there quietly. People were talking, and it was annoying me. Thankfully, misery had company and Becca was in mean mode, too. We just kept exchanging bitchy stares in the mirror. LOL! Bikini is up first and I hear Bec’s name called out for second place. I moaned, “NOoooooo!”, and then I realized I was in public. LOL! I just really had her pinned for 1st! I wanted her to take it all. She looked so great. I hear her class winner really worked the stage, though. Figure goes up and I’m waiting in line, apparently goofing off with the crew, because Jes calls me out on it. Oopsy. Oh well, it was fun. I just knew the night was almost over and I could shower and put on deodorant soon!

We do our business on stage again (not that kind of business), then the top five go out. I got first! I won my class! HOLY CRAP! It was a huge class! I couldn’t believe it. The girl who got 3rd, I had her pinned for first! I got a SWORD!! Yeah baby! I can play ninja now. Seth says it’s more of a He-Man sword, though. LOL I immediately am piss tested, and then I go back to the changing room to chill until overalls. It was pretty much just me and the Figure A winner back there. She was a lot of fun, and she got a kick out of my stupidity, so that helped, too. We laughed so much back there. I’m back there eating my candy trying to get harder thinking, “Dammit, there may be a chance. I better fill up and pump up!” Figure A tells me I should slow down… this was 6 pieces of candy corn in. I open a Reese’s pumpkin and eat it happily, then try to kill my back and shoulders w/ the bands. We are both still laughing and cracking jokes all the way back to the line by the stage. I’m not really nervous at this point because, well, what are the odds? Figure B looked dynamite, and I thought she won it. We do our quarter turns. The judges have us up there FOREVER… maybe 10 minutes, seriously… the lights are hot. I am sweating… then, then they call out MY NUMBER for the Overall. I swear, I felt like I won Miss America or something. LMAO. I’m so lame, huh? I got a big ol’ cup and a “letter” jacket!

I will try to get some pics up later today or later this week. I don’t have any awards pics! *cries*

For now, you can find them here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=133199&id=674740982&l=d35774a9c0&subject=2009 NPC Monster Mash – 10/31/09

Terrific Tuesday!

Hey party people!! I haven’t check in in a while, so I a thought the least I could do was send you an update…

Last week was awful, just awful. I felt like I did all the right things, but instead of the scale rewarding me, it creeped up in the opposite direction. So, now I am rewarded with less food or more cardio. LOL! I’m on the fence as to which one I want to do.

Labor Day weekend was just okay. Sunday we went to a cookout/reunion at the in-laws. I brought my meals, and surprisingly, was not even tempted by the goodies they had! WOO HOO! Go me! Monday, however, I couldn’t keep anything down. I think I ate something bad? Typical of me. I was eating on the same sweet potato for a week — how sad is that?! LOL!

Anyways, that’s my mini recap! I have a ton of stuff to catch up on here in the office. Later today I will probably check back in to add some placeholders for my “tabs” up at the top.

It’s a new and SHORT week! Make today a TERRIFIC TUESDAY! I’m ready to make the scale my bitch again! )

LESS THAN 7 Weeks out from my first show! YIKES!

If at first you don't succeed

Try, try again!

This week has been mentally (and physically!) rough for me! It was bound to happen sooner or later, and I will just be thankful that it happened now, while I’m still slightly ahead. Do you ever have those days/weeks when you just want to eat everything in sight? This has been my week. Monday, ravenous. Tuesday, more ravenous. Wednesday (yesterday), I caved. My mental game slipped, and I succumbed to the almighty powers of the dry roasted almond. ) It all started innocently enough. I scurried to the grocery store during lunch to pick up necessities: nuts and wraps for the hubby, romaine and cucumbers for me. I’m a mathemagician when it comes to subbing foods in and out of my meal plan, so I ate some almonds, as I counted them, so that I could plug in x and subtract y. I was still hungry. When I got home it was dinner time and I found my grubby little fingers in the almond jar again. Damn crack almonds. It was dinner time, and there was no way I could “fix” the numbers this time. I made my salad, and didn’t weigh my lettuce, cukes, or salsa… weighed my chicken, though… I don’t know what the logic there was! LOL! Later in the evening, still famished and feeling like the day was screwed, I had an extra scoop of protein powder.

Today, I am feeling the effects of eater’s remorse! LOL! I totally made this term up… you have heard of buyer’s remorse, right? Anyways, I had to come clean, to my coach, to you guys, and I HAVE to make today better. I’m having a bit of a time digging myself out of this mental hole. I also did not want to make this blog seem like all sunshine and rainbows, because, quite frankly, contest prep can’t always be perfectly smooth. I can’t really pinpoint why I was so stinking hungry this week. There are just too many factors. The good news is, I am NOT hungry today.

Here are my potential causes:

1. Stress – Wednesdays are always a high stress and high hunger day for me. Work is a bear on Wednesdays.

2. Hormonal – May be a little early for that, but the cravings and hunger felt awfully similar to PMS!

3. Fake sugar – The correlation between my increased no calorie sweetener intake and hunger levels is a little too uncanny to dismiss.

4. My body is simply mad at me for losing weight. LOL!

What am I gonna do about it? Fight tooth and nail to get back on track 110% today.

Alright folks. That’s my bah humbug post of the day. It’s time to fake it until I make it. Make today count!!