It may come to you as a surprise, but even though most people find me extreme and obsessive, I never look for short-cuts. I don’t search for easy ways out, I don’t ask for miracles over night. I don’t get a happy pill or ADHD pill to shut off hunger or to get more energy. I don’t drop my calories ultra low either. Or stop eating. If I don’t see myself being able to keep up a routine/regimen I do not keep on with it. I only invest time for the long term.

Getting smaller and tighter when your body fat is already as low as you want it is new to me. I will of course lose some more fat, but more muscle. I don’t have 4 lbs of flab I can lose, so something’s gotta give and for me it’s muscle. I have too much thickness overall and I am glad to strip it off. I am in for a new look, I reached what I wanted muscle wise, you got to get the peak of the mountain before you can look down and see where you want to be.

It took me 23 days before I hit 119. Today I did. That is how long it takes for my body to change. I always struggle with “the last pound” and when your body fat is really low, you need to work your butt off even more to make sure your body keeps on chewing down tissue.

I can get pretty frustrated with people who don’t understand why I want to change. Listen, it is MY body. I am i it day in and day out. I don’t care you think I look great the way I am. It’s about me! Me! When I see my body in the mirror and I feel like my thighs are too muscular my brain tells me to do something about it. I don’t want to accept something about myself I CAN change. I know what made those legs: years of super heavy training and endless squatting and deadlifting! So, by taking that away my body will adapt.

You must also realize that every body has a frame. Mine is petite, I am short. Building too much on that frame destroys symmetry, makes you look bulky and square. Who wants to be as tall as you are wide? Not me. For me that is looking like a toddler! lol.

One of my strongest assets in my physique is the fact I look tall in pictures. A leaner, tighter, less bulky physique keeps that illusion better than carrying a few extra pounds of muscle. As you build more quality mass, your lower back and abs will get thicker just like the rest of the body, and that I don’t want. I don’t want to feel wide-waisted!

You know, we all have ideals. Mine are not to be curvaceous as in swelling muscles, big thighs and thick arms. It’s not appealing.  Think about it: if you build wrong in the gym  you end up with huge quads, huge biceps and forward rotated shoulders. That is nasty. Especially as a women you got to be careful with HOW you approach your workouts…….