UKBFF athlete and Brighton based Personal Trainer. All things fitness - thoughts, inspirations and the harsh truth.
Bulk buy, bulk cook
No longer is a normal supermarket enough for this household..between me and my partner we must go through about 35 large chicken breasts a week. Therefore, the cash and carry seems to be the best option…5kg packets of chicken, boxes of 60 eggs, sacks of broccoli…oh yes, no normal food shopping for us!
That is what I am right now. There is no frilly part of this endeavour..it is simply a combination of patience, hard work, determination and being damn hungry. Not just hungry for food, but hungry for success. Hungry for that result, hungry for that moment when you look in the mirror and know you have finally reached your goal, that you are finally proud of what you see, what you are. This is all starting to come back to me. I am 1 and a half weeks in to the 16 of prep and I can well and truly say I am hungry. It dawned on me last night when I was counting down the minutes to my last meal how long this 16 weeks is going to feel. It only just dawned on me how many days and how many hours of being hungry that would be.
People ask me what to do if they’re hungry all the time…to which I say nothing. You simply deal with it and know that it is all part of the process. Do not assume that feeling hunger is a bad thing, it is not. I am not saying that it is not hard, of course it is. I just ate my meal of chicken, broccoli and sweet potato and I am still hungry…that is not easy! Just focus on what you want more than food. I want to be the leanest I have ever been come August and that does not come without a little sacrifice. We must all sacrifice something for what we want the most.. Take control of your mind and realise what is important - I assure you, it will not be eating that extra bit of food!
The time has come once again, time to start the madness of competition prep! I’m now 6 days in to it, 6 out of 111, my next show being on August 18th…time to get lean!
It really was about time. I have come to the conclusion that I don’t do well mentally being in a ‘bulk’ phase… I did not get on with the whole being bigger thing and so I was more than ready to get cracking. So I enjoyed my last piece of cake, my last yummy meal and my last glass of the ole vino and began with the repetitiveness that is the competition diet. After 10 workouts over 5 days I can already see a slight change in my body - I am already smaller, slightly tighter and feel a whole lot better about the whole thing. Here’s to the next 15 weeks…here’s to the challenge, the sweat, the cold chicken and broccoli and the never-ending feeling of hunger….BRING IT ON.
This so is not what I look like when hungry and craving…..
It is almost that time again. The time to start cutting for a show! So we’re the second year in to competing, it’ll be my third show and my first time competing in figure. To say I cannot wait to get started would be an understatement! Bulking, whilst being fun in the sense that there is an awful lot of food and you don’t feel like you’re going to die from lack of energy, I am glad that it is almost time to cut. This is what it is all about, stripping off all of that extra insulation to reveal what you’ve been working on…it’s like ripping open a nice little present. Hopefully the present will not disappoint as unfortunately, there is no refund policy here.
I will competing on the 18th August in BodyFitness (Figure) and all of the prepping fun begins in a week and a half…the 29th April. 16 weeks of prepping…I cannot wait but I know that undoubtedly, the novelty will soon wear off and I shall be desperately watching the food channel once again whilst counting down the seconds to the next chicken and broccoli meal. Well….I say BRING IT ON BITCHES, TIME TO GET LEAN AND MEAN AND GET THESE GOD DAMN ABS BACK!
