I received my new training and nutrition routines Wednesday morning and did my first phone consultation with Kim Oddo that same night to go over the specifics of my workouts and diet.

In case the name sounds familiar, yes, he is the trainer that Amyella (and dozens of other figure competitors) works with to get into competition shape. And no, I am not doing his pre-comp program.

I’m way too cheap to pay hundreds of dollars for the rhinestone bikinis, uber-dark tan-in-a-bottle and acrylic Cinderella heels needed to succeed on a figure competition stage. I’ll just have to get my stage jollies singing karaoke for now.

Since I agreed not to reveal my diet and training regimens while working with Kim, I’ll just be reporting whether or not I hit my program targets for the day before and how I’m feeling and doing on the program…

…and maybe how much it is costing me in groceries every week to follow the plan.

2/9/06 Report
(*Diet and workout details omitted by agreement with trainer)
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Nutrition:

Meals - On plan, but missed meal 6
Water - 18 cups
Regular (Non-Plan) Daily Supplements - multivitamin with iron, calcium 600 + D

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Workout:
Weights - Done
Cardio - Missed; make up session on Saturday

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The Awful Truth:
1. Missed meal 6 while out at Gran Cru doing karaoke.
2. Underestimated time required to do new training routine and had to postpone cardio.

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Brownie Points:
1. Went grocery shopping.
2. Stocked break room fridge at work with staples for new plan.
3. Only drank water and did not have a single Goldfish cracker at Gran Cru.
4. Did Journey’s “Separate Ways” last night and made it through all the high notes without embarrassing myself.

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Short-term Goals:
1. Work on paper doll sketches.
2. Fix remaining issues with Joomla migration at Pinkdumbbells.com.
3. Locate new Events module for PDB.
4. Upgrade Community Builder component at PDB.
5. Set up archived version of The Training Journal forum at PDB from Hershey Girl’s backup.
6. Cook chicken.
7. Plant snow and sugar snap peas.
8. Upgrade Wordpress to 2.0.