Wow 6 weeks till show time!! What a journey I have been on and still a long way to go. I look back at when I first started to now and am amazed myself at how far I have come and how I have managed to transform my body!!  Believe me this hasn't been an easy journey. There has been lots of hungry days and nights, lots of lows and highs, lots of tears and lots of sore muscles. But 6 months on I'm still humming along! Some days I wonder myself where I get the energy to do have the things I do in one day! Up at 5.30 in the morning doing cardio, at work by 7.00 am, HIT session in the police gym during my half hour break, weight training after work, then cardio later on in the evening usually with my husband, followed by preparing meals for the next day. Most nights I am So whacked I Amin bed by 9pm. Speaking of husbands, mine has been very patient and supportive. O believe me he has had his moments and I have had mine but then he remembers what I am trying to do and…

  Long time No See  It been a while seen my last blog and only because the May competition was cancelled so I took it easy for a few weeks so I don't peak too soon. Back into full swing now!! Wow 15 weeks to go until my first comp. So many things to do now!! I brought my material for my bikini last weekend and that was a mission in itself. I love the color and that it has bling!! Found the shoes I wanted online and they are being shipped from America. My music is being sorted by one of the guys from work (DJ Mike you rock) and my choreographer has been organized to go through my routine with me in two weeks time after posing practice with Jo!  So I was in Auckland yesterday for training with Jo at wolfs gym, and I had posing practice. Slowly getting it but far out there's so much into perfecting every little move, adding little fancy grooves and trying look natural while keeping your balance. Thank you Jo for being such an awesome teacher and so so patient! Whoop Whoop  I nearly forgot.....my results! The most important part!!! Stoked…

Laying Low  It has been a while I know. I am still here! I have been flat out with work, or sick it seems since February. How time flies. I have changed my competition date to September. There has been a lot of sickness going around and though I usually only get sick once a year I have been sick several times this year already Training is going good. Some days are stellar and some days I don’t have much energy. I really had an awesome leg workout yesterday, I have been having hip flexor issues which make squatting painful and difficult, but I am learning ways to deal with this, and yesterdays leg session is proof I am succeeding! My favorite cardio session at the moment is running on the beach, it is so  beautiful and refreshing and everything just seems so clear afterwards.   Food and all that  To be honest my eating has not been great. I am on plan most of the time, but I have had a few slip ups. I really need to stick to my plan 100% to see results, I am not one of those gifted people who can have a little…

..Blah! Sad and Tired  It's only been a week since my last post but its been full on!!! Been a busy and frustrating week at work but will solider on and let the sun continue to shine in my life! Haha.. Has been a long week for some strange reason and ive been really tired, hungry and emotional this week. So slowed down and cut back on cardio this week to allow my muscles to rest. As for the hungry part, well I fed my body with a little more food..good food tho! Seems to have helped. The good thing is that I do listen to my body and when it screams at me to slow down or stop I do. Aloof the abbé sorted the emotional stuff. Sunday's are my day of rest. Whoop whoop. Had another awesome workout with Paul at Pumping Iron Gym this morning who shows no mercy, and then an awesome posing session with Teish afterwards. This time we wore heels to practice in and it wasn't easy. Actually makes you realize that not only is bodybuilding a sport that requires dedication, commitment and hard-work but also that there is actually an art to everything…

I missed putting these pics up the other day so here they are now.   Belinda has done an awesome job so far of building her body, all while whittling the fat away.. 

22 weeks until first competition in Auckland Its been 2 weeks since my last measurements and i am now down to 16% body fat! Yay still well on track! Had a wicked and hard training session with Jo on Saturday at Wolfs Gym in Henderson and teamed up with the gorgeous Teish Paton also from Whangarei who is also competing in August.  So not only did we train but we had a posing session after training! Teish had shown me some poses that she had learnt and we had a little session at Pumping Iron Gym in Whangarei. I felt uncoordinated then!! Far out who ever thought that posing would be so hard!!  Well hello there abs So now here I am in Auckland being taught by Jo how to pose! It was like learning a whole new language! So many things to remember, so many things to do, squeeze, tense, tighten, lift, eek!!! And I still had to smile while trying to do all of that. This wasn't easy at all! And I definitely wasn't posing gracefully!  The exciting part was that at 16% body fat you start to see the different muscles in your body and learn to…

Whatever Your Doing, Its Working! 17 Weeks Out!!   This is what people keep telling me in relation to my legs! I have had like 9 separate people come up to me and tell me that my legs have totally changed and whatever I am doing keep doing it because it’s working! I have been answering REALLY?! THANK YOU! To them all. Now I can see it too! I tell them my coach knows her stuff, then I grab them by the arm and say with wide eyes…OMG… the leg workouts… BRUTAL… I have no words LOL.  True Story. I am 17 weeks out and need to start posing practice! I have been crazy busy training people or myself or prepping food, and just trying to keep up with everything. Plus lots of drive time. I also need to permanently decide on my music pretty soon for my routine. I choose something and then second guess that choice and choose something else, its hard I want it to be awesome. My upper body is getting leaner, I am definitely losing fat but that scale is not moving which is good! J I am having mini panic attacks every other day,…