From Fat to Fitness/Figure Competitor

 I'm starting on my revolution to become and stay the fittest I've ever been.  I've certainly always been interested in food, but only healthy food.  Everyone loves to eat!  I love to find new and different ways to eat, keep it healthy, sane and interesting.

I'm a new fitness/figure competitor and I LOVE doing it- not to say that I'm good at it yet, but I so enjoy it!  I'm excited to be working with my new coach who has hipped me on to fitclick.  It's SO much easier to track what you eat.  I can't wait to see where I will take my body in 2012.  I will post my first check in picture tomorrow under my new advisement.  I am taking a few months off from competing to repair my metabolism.  Doing shows takes a lot out of your body as well as the workouts and taking time to heal is extremely essential, and I know that now.  I've just some out of my 4th show and I will probably not compete again until late summer or early fall;o(  I think the time off will do me some good....or so I keep telling myself.

I've only been on fitclick for a few weeks and was tinkering and saw that you could blog, so I thought, why the hell not?  I LOVE keep track of the journey, and would like to see how well I can keep up with this.  

I have specific intake of my Protein, Carbs and fat that I have to keep track of and trying to hit the numbers at times is fun to play around with, and other times I want to scream and pull my hair out.  I am noticing that planning is the number one path to success, at least for me anyway.  I have nutrient timing i have to be concerned with as well: pre/post nutrition.  I can't say whether or not I enjoy it yet.  I have to keep doing it for a few weeks more.....it takes me some time to get used to it.  It's too new.  There are times I am utterly pleased as pie to do it, and other times I'm SO stressed about it.  More pleased than stressed though.

What's really great about fitclick is that you can save the meals to add for another day so you can constantly hit your numbers!  SO great!  Then when you get sick of rotating those meals, you can make up new ones to hit the same macro totals!!!  This is so great!  Making my life easier.

I left another site because (GULP!) their site was not available when I needed to plan my meals.  I had a conniption fit, wrote the site administrator and never went back.  SO happy so far with fitclick!