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HAPPY VALENTINES DAY everyone!!! I hope you are getting everything sweet today!!

I am sitting at my home computer right now looking out on winter. It is grey, windy, sleeting and snow covered. I got sent home from work early cause of the slippery conditions! I had already trained on my lunch hour at the gym near my office and the temperature had dropped...it will only get more slippery on the roads. It is supposed to turn to all snow but so far not yet? If I could eat I would be making home made beef stew or pasta sauce and a carrot cake or home made cokies to have with hot chocolate made with milk. It's the perfect day for that and snuggling in to watch movies. Maybe a glass of wine with your honey type of day...but not for me!!
There will be no eating unless it's chicken and no drinking unless it is H2O. I have been enjoying different Green teas since it is so cold out! It's all good though...I will do my secnd cardio at home tonight...eat my chicken meals and hang out with my Valentines (Seth ,6 & Evan 8) next door. If you caqn't be in love on Valentines having some kids around is the next best thing!!! They are so excited to get Valentines chocolates and cards and have asnow day that they keep the enrgy bright!

OK..so Boss man Tim says we are on track...he told me I really looked like a pro this time with the size and shape I added to my elgs! That's cool..I didn't even try to do that. He is shooting for us to be conditioned like at 2005 Nats but bigger and more shapely. I am happy...I feel like I have done what I set out to do so now there's only the fun left to have!
My cousin Jessica turned me onto this book called; "The Secret"...it has been out for a bit but was featured on Oprah last week. It's all about the power of positive thought and how to help yourslef turn your negative thoughts positive...you attract wht you think! Anyway if you go on thesecret.com you can buy for $5 the video to watch on line. I need to block off an hour + for this so I hven't done it yet but just the quotes from the video are very cool...definately how I am trying to live my life!!
I got the nicest and most unexpected good luck card today from my friend Ellen. She must be reading my blog!!! It's a beautiful spring daisy card...I love it and the thought ...thanks gurl! If you are reading this!
I got a lot of well Valentines wishes today..first ones came from Tampa..al my peeps down there wer thinking of me first thing!!! I miss Tampa! Then the rest just flowed in..very nice to know you are thought of.

OK...I guess I will seam some green beans an denjoy the rest of this day off!!!!

Think Positive thoughts and it will attract positive things!!
Ciao for now
C

Carla's Online Web Journal

Happy Monday!!

It's a bright sunny and cold day in the northeast today!!! We are expecting a snowstorm for Valentines day!? Who knows...wouldn't it be nice to snuggle up and drink hot chocolate whiel beign snowbound with your lover??? Too bad I don't have one!!!! lol!! Ok....sorry..the low carbs are sucking the reason out of my brain!!!

I had a nice weekend...I really didn't do too much but train, cardio, cook food, buy food, train clients and spend some quality time with my parents...but there was a peacefulness about my being that just felt nice.....?
Oh yeah! I did go to a friends birthday party (to show my respects only otherwise I would have stayed home.) It was at a kareoke bar...Good Lord! Being totally sober was bad enough to listen to the people sing but I really don't think there is enough Vodka in the world to have made that better!??? Anyway...it makes me remember why I usually stay home!!!!

OK...so today I woke up and there were those little viens in my lower abs!!! You know the ones that make you feel like your skin is thin as an onion and you are ready for a show!!?? Now...once my face sucks in...it's ON!!!!! It really motivated me and is helping me RIGHT NOW to deal with the hnger pangs I am having!!!!!

My web guy is playing around with some new ideas for my site...pretty cool! So there may be a "new look" soon???

"LIVE WITH INTENTION.
WALK TO THE EDGE.
LISTEN HARD.
PRACTICE WELLNESS.
PLAY WITH ABANDON.
LAUGH.
CHOOSE WITH NO REGRET.
CONTINUE TO LEARN.
APPRECIATE YOUR FREINDS.
DO WHAT YOU LOVE
LIVE AS IF THIS IS ALL THERE IS."
-Mary Ann Radmacher

That is something that I am going to be saying alot .... it makes sense...it's how I want to live my life....


Be peaceful all and remember how BLESSED we are!
Ciao
C

Carla's Online Web Journal

TGIF! "(Again!)

Ok all...here I am...the cold spell continues in the Norhteast...today I thought my face was going to fall off while I was gassing up my car..the wind was like glass shards!!! OUCH!!! It's been sunny pretty much everyday and the days are getting longer....so at least with LIGHT I can function!

Wednesday night I went to the UMASS theater with Mom to see a Cirque de soliel type show...it was really amazing...acrobats, singing, dancing, juggling, comedy...it was really entertaining and the best part was being with Mom and getting mymind off EVERYTHING else..work, training, competing, chicken!!!! It was one of those moments where I felt truely blesed to be experiencing it with my Mom. I am very lucky.

It will be 2 weeks tomorrow form the SAC! I have been trying NOT to look at myself...I guess I am FLAT! Which is what I am supposed to be but..it's messes with the pre-contest mind! So today I get a whole, whopping 60 grams of complex...I was feeling the 30 g over the past week...by Wed. I was tired in the afternoon and feeling just emotionally drained...by yesterday I started off strong training delts but got weak and tired QUICK!!!! My first set I was saying to myself..."WOW! I am still strong"...and then all of a sudden I hit the wall and was just getting by! It's crazy how the body just stops sometimes! The pump I had in my delts was so painful though I couldn't put the water bottle up to my lips!!! They feel tight today but not sore...yet?
Today I feel emotionally strong but physically tired...it's sooo weird how everyday you feel different and there doesn't really seem to be pattern? I just try to acknowledge what I feel and "BE WITH IT"...if it's stress I try to wait it out and if it's joy and confidence I try to enjoy it!!! Today I feel like GOOD THINGS...CHANGES for the better are imminent!? Who knows???
I have an appointment to pose with Pauly tonight...he is a good eye...and tomorrow I have to be up at 6 am to get cardio in cuz I got a client at 9..got appointemtn scattered thorughout the day actually. Sunday...I am just gonna do cardio, start packing and REST!!!! I don't want to do anything for anybody!

OK all..stay warm...be peaceful...pray for sun!!!!
Ciao
C

Carla's Online Web Journal


TGIF!!

Well all...I feel like things are coming together. I am getting excited to be in Sacramento! Things are tightening up eal well...a little flat but I lost the water I was holding inthe beginning of the week and my waist is looking little.
I will have posing practice tonight with Pauly at the gym. Since Nicki isn't around I decided I better set up some stuff to push me to pose. I hate looking at myself cuae it usually freaks me out so I don't pose as much as I should sometimes!
This prep so far has been much more on target than the last one..I have done everything more and to the letter. Of course there was NO travel..not even to a photo shoot...I amgetting a little itchy to go somewhere too but that's all good.
I have been really going thorugh stress at work but that seems to be parelleling my journey to the stage which is going great so.....conclusion... I really am blessed!
I am blessed that I have my parents who are soooo supportive...not only of my prep but of my life...they are the best cheerleaders anyone could ask for and ALWAYS there for me....I am sooo lucky...this is why I am still here...in the blasted lack luster Northeast! It's all for a reason and I am seeing them a little more clearly lately!

I can't wait for this season to kick off!!!! I spoke ot Stacy today and he is anxious to get to the Arnold. The new Protan products are not finished yet but he continues to work on them. He is sooo busy!!! I contacted Jeff Taylor and Shawn Ray for him and am waiting to hear back because Stacy wants to be a part of the Colorado Pro....that will be awesome!!

Nicki says Dave is looking freaky...as usual. I guess she says that the buzz is that Dave and Toney Freeman will be battling it out....can't get much mroe different than those 2 physiques? Ya never know though who will be bringing it!!! Mark Dugdale, marcus haley, Amad Hadier, Luke Wood...can't rule any of these cats out....wished I could be there but it's all good!!!

So...here's to a weekend of peace everyone...staying focused and plugging along!!! The lights will be in front of us before we know it...to all my fellow dietrs out there (you know who you are)...stay strong!!!

WE ARE SOLDIERS!
Ciao
C