How Long Has It Been

Wow....How Long Has It Been. Seems like forever. I totally let myself get offtrack and slip away from my dream goal. So here I am trying to restart my dream goal again and undo the damage that I have done with weight gain over the last couple of months or more. A lot has happened including many excuses. A relationship has bloomed, a new position as a nurse...that has brought me back to my routine on nights (who knew I would miss my nightshift, lol), and the weight gain has started again. With dreadful routines of eating crap, being lazy, and drinking comes the dreadful weight gain...especially in that midsection. An opportunity at work blossomed for me though and has put my vision and goal back into play. A co-worker whom I worked with and used to work with at a previous place of employment came up to me and was mentioning a previous co-worker and said...I heard you were getting into wrestling or boxing or something of the sorts. I looked at her completely puzzled. What in the world, she was talking about...I had no idea. I started to think she was joking at some point. I hadn't had any patients that had been combative with me, which was my initial thought...maybe she was joking around. Finally it dawned on me, she was talking about figure competitions. How she went from that to wrestling & kickboxing, I don't have the slightest idea. A sense of embarressment swept over me though. I had gone completely offtrack with everything. Some conversation about how I so needed to start dieting & working out came into play. She mentioned the same and we were both completely honest & really wanting to start something together. Another co-worker mentioned some interest and it kind of went into play from there. A week went by and we had not worked together but I knew I would be on her tail when I saw her next (what happens when you lose people's phone #'s, lol). Anyhoo, we are working on our second week of working out and has been completely successfull. I have revamped my desire to compete and have a date set in mind looking at June/July timeframe. There are two competitions that I have in mind, but the exact date has not been posted yet. That gives me 7 months to get my tail into the groove. Money restrictions are going to be forcing me to do this on my own, but well my boyfriend makes me want to knock him out sometimes because he gets on my case...and it's not even close to competition time yet, lol. So I know he will be 100% supportive. He gets on me because that is what I have asked of him to do. At this point, we have a weekly bet that I am to stay on track. I can have my cheat day weekly, everything else must stay on point. Workouts, diet, etc. Eventually it will creep down to cheat meals and adjust from that point. So lots of looking up info will be coming into play now. Hopefully my Diva's will accept me back at some point, I'm afraid to even mention anything, and well I just kind of didn't say anything at all because of guilt & embarressment. I will have to get over it though. So I am now on my second week & trying to figure out my game plan for the next 7 months. I will be rotating my workout routines around. Starting at the end of February, I will be heading to the gym more, but concentrating on working out at my friends until then to develop a routine. The gym is literally less then 5 min away from her, so I can head there afterwards if need be. I already have my 8wk routine which I will repeat x2 prior to comp, so that is planned. Just figuring out my next 12wk plan to try and build some muscle at this point. Time to go through my mags & bb.com. Can't wait to see the changes that come...:)