My Disappearing Mo-Jo 7 Weeks Out from Competition What a challenging week! My Stress took control over my calmness which in turn made my mo-jo leave the building. Unfortunately it hasn’t been seen since!  The stress had been growing with the worry about my little girl who is just not well. The seizure medication that she is on doesn’t seem to be helping and she has been sick since the start of the school holidays. She is now on her second batch of antibiotics and had a whole lot of bloods taken this week. She is struggling to keep up with any of our activities and it has been highlighted this week with the nice fine days which we have been trying to enjoy. Unfortunately she can only cope with one activity like a short bike ride then she is a mess for the rest of the day. This has made it hard on my Son who I need to get out and about. Especially as he is riding his bike and just wants to go, go, go. Anyway when it comes to your children it really hits you in the heart and last year I noticed that I was handling my daughter’s challenges with food. Every time I stressed about tests and seizures etc I would have a cup of tea and something to eat to calm me down. When I understood how I was coping with it I went out and bought a punching bag etc and took my stress out on the bag.  With the stress in the last week and seeing my daughter everyday struggle, all I have wanted to do is sit down with a cup of tea (with milk) and dunk some biscuits !!!! Of course you can’t do this when you are dieting down for a bodybuilding competition, especially when you have already lost a few weeks of preparation time at the start of your countdown. So along comes the rheumatoid. Along with the stress building up my loving rheumatoid has decided to join the party. The funny thing is that the more I stressed, the more the pain came back and the more I then stressed about the pain coming back!!!! But!!! Amongst it all I have been trying to calm myself down, just calm down and breathe, calm down and smell the roses and listen to the birds. Today I took the kids fishing as they got little fishing rods for Christmas from their Granddad. It did me good as I sat on the jetty and watched the boats sail by, it was so beautiful. My work outs have been very challenging and non-enjoyable and my cardio has been the same. I have been forcing myself to do all of it. My rheumatoid has hit my right foot so I haven’t been able to practice posing in my heels; actually I haven’t practiced posing at all this week. To add to all the above crap another life changing event that is meant to be happening is getting delayed and held up and very very stressful! It is a real challenge in patience to wait for one chapter to end and another chapter to start once you have put everything into place, it’s been a major waiting game over Christmas and New Year and just when I thought everyone was back at work so action would be taken, it has all been held up again. This event puts stress on the home life and the Personal Training and my competition preparation. My goal this week will be to get this event sorted and times and dates set in place for change. And more importantly this week I would like some results from my daughter’s tests. So all in all it has been a real crappy week and my Mo-Jo is still missing in action.  The competition is only 7 weeks away now. I attended a meeting with NABBA Officials this weekend and it sounds like it will be a very well run show. It is great if we can get another bodybuilding show in Taranaki. If you haven’t been to a show before then you need to come. It is very inspiring and entertaining. It takes a lot of courage to get up on stage in just a posing suit in front of a stadium full of people and to be judged, the more the audience gets involved and cheers and claps the easier it can make it on the competitor. Each competitor does a routine to music and these are very entertaining as well. Go to the NABBA Website and click on the Taranaki page for details later in the week. |
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