Monthly Archive for March, 2009

It has been awhile since I posted, basically I just don’t have the mental energy left at the end of the day to write anything!  Thanks everyone who left a comment on my photos, I am personally not totally happy where I’m at, and everything just seems to have stopped no matter what I do.  Similar to my prep in 2006, the last 4-6 weeks were just treading water yet I was going very hard.  I just wonder if I should cut back the cardio as I think perhaps my body is just preserving everything it has, but you can probably understand at this late stage it’s a big of a gamble to do something like that.

My training is still going great.  My knee has improved and I was finally able to lunge last week.  It’s quads again tomorrow so will have another go.  Cardio is just boring unfortunately, though I’m so fit now.

Caught up with Jodie today, she doesn’t have long to go until she pops!  We haven’t chatted for ages so it was really good to catch up. 

I have been flat out with prep, organising my photo shoots and the comp accommodation, hair, tanning etc.  It’s almost as bad as a wedding!  And just as stressful!  I’m still not entering until 2 weeks out, but will go over any way to watch Nadia and have a weekend away.

I’m getting very hungry at night and getting through the evening is really hard.  I have to sleep between training sessions and space my meals so I have enough energy to train.  Night time when I crash and get hungry is quite hard to manage, and even now I think I will go to bed soon (9pm) before I get hungry and go looking for stuff I shouldn’t have.  Not that there is any contraband left in the fridge these days.

Today went like so – walk for 50 mins, home for hour of work, coffee with Damo (I look forward to this, we always go to a cafe for this), mail, book tans, get groceries, unpack groceries and time for half hour of work, meet Jodie for another coffee!!, home for half hour of work, chiro appointment, home for a bit more work then a sleep, get ready for gym, train, home to make post workout shake, cook big pan full of veggies, have a spa (I needed this!), cook fish, eat dinner, sit down here and finish off a bit of work.  As you can see, the work is not really getting much of a look in.  Every day is pretty similar to this – having an appointment or two really puts things out of whack.  I am only doing 3 sessions when I can cope which is maybe 2-3 x week if that.  I figure I can only do what I can do and not really willing to kill myself!

Ok well I might sign off now, and think about going to bed.  Actually today I felt a bit drained, I had a weird dizzy episode last night too.  My calories are pretty low for the amount of training I am doing and probably just starting to catch up with me!  Hopefully I will get to post a little more but if I don’t you know I will be training, eating, sleeping…and drinking coffee!

Well the scales have moved again, and I’m down to the 110’s now (110.8).  Minus 2lb for the boobs and my real weight is 108.8!  I’m such a bloody lightweight   Never mind, just have to work with what I have and do what I can.

I’m trying to book in for some photos for my birthday, the big 40 which is about 3.5 weeks away (not that I’m counting).  I figure it would be kind of cool to have some photos done on my birthday, in the best shape of my life.  I will do a bit of a water and salt depletion prior to that as a bit of a test.  I’m not entering the Adelaide show until 2 weeks out.  I’ve got to make an improvement on my last show and I should, but again, not making set plans until I am sure.  I could probably do the Melbourne show in 3 weeks and be in similar condition as I was for the 2006 show (pic below)

 but I need to improve on that.   And so I should start practising my posing and re-learn my routine again I suppose.   I better check my tanning supplies too. 

Ok, better get moving, time for cardio number 1.  I had a low carb day yesterday, might do another today, I think I can manage it.

Don’t forget to buy the Women’s Health & Fitness mag that’s out on Monday – featuring Liz Bickerton as the Body Blitz Grand Champion!

Nice trip away, great weather, and lovely to meet Kathy!  We had a good old chat, and probably could have kept going if we didn’t have plans!  Kathy suggested we walk and chat at the same time so we killed two birds with one stone, walking around the Torrens after we enjoyed a short macchiato.  I did two cardio sessions (nothing huge) yesterday, and trained on Saturday before we left.  Today I haven’t done anything, figure another day of rest won’t hurt.  I was happy to see the callipers have moved downwards slightly since I last checked, so that’s good considering what has been going on.  I’m bloody hungry though!  I missed a meal while travelling home so when I did eat, I was starving, and probably overate (and I still feel like I could eat a horse).  Very important lesson to everyone who misses meals on a regular basis.

Very quick update as I am so tired, I could have gone to bed when I got home at 6!  I’m waiting up for Underbelly.  Haven’t been watching it so will give it a shot this week.  Big day tomorrow, I have lots of new subscribers to add to our member area (we have a special running in the Women’s Health magazine), as well as training x 2, a doctor’s appointment (2 yearly women’s health check, yippee), and a phone appointment with my web guy which I will try and postpone to Wednesday as I think I will be pushing it.

Hope everyone had a lovely long weekend!

Yeah, Twitter:

www.twitter.com/sueheintze

I’m not totally sold on it yet, probably just another time waster, but, I’m told it’s the next big thing to land on the web.  So, ‘follow me’ if you like.  I warn you, I’ll probably bore the socks off you.

So things have been just ticking along.  No real progress to report.  It’s very weird.  I’m very frickin’ hungry.   I really find the whole somatype (body type) thing very interesting.  I reckon I am a cross between an ecto(morph) and an endo(morph) – probably the worst combo you can get!  Ecto’s have trouble building and holding muscle, and endo’s have stubborn fat and need lots of cardio.  So a bit of a contradiction.  Basically I have to lift heavy and hard, shorter sessions, to build/maintain muscle (recommended for an ecto, yet higher reps, less rest and less overall weight training is recommended for endos).  I also need to cardio my ass off (literally) – combination of intervals and long moderate intensity sessions – again, not recommended for ecto’s, but recommended for endo’s!  Bloody confusing body!  Never mind, will keep ticking away and see how I turn out!

I did some cardio this morning with Damo, and this evening I trained shoulders and biceps.  I love training shoulders, hate training biceps.  Anyone else with me there?

It’s busied up what with our recent super duper special so Kristin and I have been head down bum up again.  I managed to update our photo gallery today, please, go check out the awesome transformations we are having!

Off to Adelaide on Saturday and Sunday with some friends – hi Trav and Renee   I will be taking my microwave with me as we couldn’t find any apartment accommo.  I will spend most of the time training, and sleeping probably.  I hope to meet up with the lovely Kathy while there.

Well, getting very tired easily of late.  My carbs and calories are pretty low.  On Saturday I will have a carb up day – this time will do carbs (30g) in 5 meals, and halve my protein portions, and have a normal protein meal for meal 6.

Over and out, time to vegetate.