LOVE YOUR BODY MONTH!!

It's February and now you can probably get on a machine at the gym a little easier, tempting candy is popping up in most stores and office cubes and reservations have already been made for richly prepared dinners and desserts all around town for that special day devoted to love in 2 weeks.  I guess most people either love Valentine's Day or hate it which is mainly based on if an individual can check the box single or not.  Well, just for the record, I LOVE VALENTINE'S DAY and FEBRUARY and have in times of stark singledom or in a loving relationship. The month is a marketed towards my favorite vices of choice, chocolate and wine, which I can't really partake in at this time and my favorite color pink is showcased everywhere.  

So I started thinking maybe I should share the love this month with anyone that wants to follow on this journey with me. I'm a very competitive person and love a challenge but since I can't participate in my own challenge, I decided to create my own cool contest with a fantastic prize all based around LOVE!

I'm hoping we can all learn to love ourselves, love others, love our our abilities, love our success and failures because we learned, love our minds and love our bodies.  We are all works in progress so it gives us somewhere to start.

Today was a pretty good day in general. I started off my day with an intense and long training session. I was all by my lonesome because I came in at a different time so it was just me and Coach Doug for half the workout. This gave him plenty of time to praise/pick on me and even catch me checking out my shoulder striations in the mirror. Hell yeah I'm checking them out, they are crazy looking. Where did they come from??? Oh probably the salmon, chicken, yams and green beans along with copious amounts of water, no bread or wine! After a great arm workout, I did some booty extra credit.  I guess I should mention some of "weaker" areas I have to work on hence the extra credit.  I have had "Flat Ass" disorder well since forever. Even if I had been lifting and squating heavy enough to built a J LO Booty, I would burn it off with my mass amounts of cardio. So I'm working on building the booty 3-4 times a week. Now with that comes many heavy squats, lunges etc. that I believe makes my quads bigger at the time. So maybe the jeans are getting a little tighter but the legs are ripped and I'm getting some cushion on the backside.  I've graduated from a garlic clove to an onion. I will diagram the pictures later.

 I'm also doing a lot of work on basically every body part but the booty and brain are my main projects.  Why my brain? I mentioned before, this is a mental game more than it is physical. From talking myself into 5:30am workouts, that extra round of cardio when I want to crash out on the couch and down to that extra tablespoon of peanut butter I'm talking myself out of daily. This war starts inside the mind and it's straight willpower. I know that tasting VICTORY winning my PRO CARD with the WBFF will taste far better than any piece of chocolate, bread, glass of wine, pizza or chips and salsa.  

After working on various projects  today, it came time for the stair mill but it was 5:30. I am not a fan of evening workouts but I pushed through. Dinner tonight was a struggle. I was literally gagging with every bite of chicken and green beans. I even found myself feeding the dog my veggies under the table like a child but I ate my directed ounces and called it a night with food. After this it's bedtime. 

Now to the important part..............my LOVE YOUR BODY MONTH.  I have compiled an awesome goody basket for those that want to play.  The rules are simple.  Please go to my athletic page and "Like" on Facebook under Liz McMillan Future WBFF Fitness Pro and Please join my blog (the one you are reading now)!! You will get 1 entry for each.  Also, feel free to share any of your thoughts and stories about your journey, whatever that might be! Now for the good stuff.............

This basket contains:

1 bottle of Noceto OGP (The Original Grandpere Vineyard) 2008 Zinfandel from Amado County

CHOCOLATES

Gift Certificate to Sports Authority

Lush Bath Products

2 Lift Tickets to Sierra at Tahoe or Gift Certificate to Spa Finder (something for everyone....options are good)

VALUED AT OVER $200!

I think that someone should enjoy all the goodies this month brings. If I can't, than I hope you can with my help! 

So happy "Like"ing and Joining my Blog!