Welllllllll hellllllloooo again!! I'm back at this.. hopefully one more time and more consistently with the postings! One can hope! One day at a time :)
Well a lot has been happening over the last year plus. But that's not important... yet. I'll hit the highlights and big updates below...
Probably one of the most significant things that's changed within the last year has been the success Ellyn and I have had with cutting weight. At any given day or time I would weigh around 80k which put me in the Super-Heavy weight class... which may seem ridiculous because there were times when I was LITERALLY competing against girls who were TWICE my size.. yes 160k. Theres no way I'd EVER be able to realistically compete with those girls... or even the girls who were 120k. So Ellyn brought up the idea of cutting weight for the "camp meet" that was about 2 weeks away (again, remember this was during the summer). We discussed the options and possibilities and decided we had nothing to lose and might as well try it. We were trying to hit a 202k total that would qualify me for a World Team Trials a few weeks after that.
I think it's funny looking back on the conversation because I can see the whole thing happening. I know where we were standing, I know what was said and one part of the conversation sticks out for me... Ellyn asked if I wanted time to think about our talk about trying to get down to 75k and we could start tomorrow if that was what we both felt was best. I stopped her right there and said, "Let's do it now." I can't remember what my dinner plans were... but I know they changed significantly!
The two weeks of cutting weight (aka eating vegetables and cooking real meals) wasn't as awful, painful, torturous, miserable etc as it was when we had started 6 or 8 weeks out! I may have been all of those things, but it wasn't for long! :) **Serious note. The dieting was no where nearly as challenging and draining as it was before**
The two weeks went by quickly... one week was spent at RWL 24/7 which was awesome and may have been part of the reason the dieting went so smoothly.. the other was working my 3 hours a day at the y... all things i can handle ;)
The day of the meet comes and after a sauna session and a few layers of winter clothes I get to the meet and step on the scale. 74.9. okay quick get off! made weight. now lets eat and hydrate! Ellyn and I talked about the numbers we needed to hit 85/117 and how we would get there 78/82/85 and 107/112/117. My first though... WOAH. Okay. This is crazy. SHE is crazy. But wait... the Crazy works.. okay one thing at a time. Our work isn't done. . .
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