Update....

Hi Everybody-

I know it has been a while. I have been real busy and haven’t had a chance to post any blogs lately, so here is the fast scoop on what has been going on..... We have some new video up from the last time I trained with Sagi and am excited about the progress I am making. Since then I went away to Napa County for my birthday and while I did train as much as I can I also lived it up, but I am still in way better shape than before I started and now that I am back I am making up for lost time and hitting the gym HARD!
I mean, come on...it's Napa...a girl can't help herself. lol. Plus I hear red wine is very healthy for your heart...Over the last week I have probably become the heart healthiest 27 yr old there is! lmao!
Thank God for Dicana...there's no way you can consume what I did in a wk and gain only a pound...NO way! :-)

Anyways....Again sorry it's been so long. I had to see the video myself...you never know what the camera will do to you. Ha.
So...check it out if you haven't already.

Please write me...I feel like I'm talking to myself. (Which is Ok, but I even get boring to me.) lol.

Talk soon!

Misty

Still got it...I hope!

I had my first shoot in almost 2 yrs just a couple of days ago.

I was pretty excited/nerved up the morning of. Thinking, 'WTF am I doing?' lol.
I showed up to the location of the shoot and felt Ok. Photog was cool as hell and so easy going. He understood it's been awhile and said it'd prolly take me about 3 minutes to get my mojo back. Suuurrrrre, I thought.

The MUA was doing my MU, and in walks all these perky, skinny and 20!, girls. The photog was shooting an ad for the club we were shooting in. The last thing I wanted was an audience (especially women) watching my 'come back' shoot.

I let them do their thing and get it over with, praying they'd leave right after. lol.

Then it was my shoot. Changed, went up on the backdrop and did my thing. I'd say it took about 1 minute, not 3. lol. As soon as I was under the hot lights, it was like I never stopped.

Didn't even care who was around as soon as I started. The best part...2 of the girls walk over and start saying, "I hate you, you're like perfect," and "I would do anything to have that body, you are so lucky." ???? I'm like, "who are you talking to?" lol. They asked if I lived in a gym, which the last 8 wks, I've done my share.

Needless to say, I was kinda lost. I guess when you see yourself everyday you don't see a change. You still see what's left to lose and what's not perfect.

When I was done with the first set and changing, the photog (who mostly shoots glamour) says, "Don't lose anymore weight. Right now you're right inbetween glamour and fitness, you can go either way right now." Well hell, I'm getting my ass to the gym...I've done glamour, sign me up for fitness! lol.

I know there's a definite difference in my body, but I just can't see what everyone else is seeing.
I can NOT wait to see some of the images....fear and excitement all at once.

Stay tuned. I'm going out of town for the long wkend. Talk soon, hopefully with some images to show. :-)
M

Sigh....

The video from last week should be posted sometime in the next couple of days. Oh boy!

The weekend went well. I'm a bad girl that loves my wine. I try to make it one night a week, but somehow it turns into two.
Supposed to only have 1 cheat meal a wk (eat whatever I want), but once again....I had 2! lol.

I've been lifting 5-6 days a wk and doing cardio (yuck!) at least once a day for 30 mins. If I'm feeling extra fat, I'll go in the evening too. (Very rare.)

The scale really pissed me off this morning. Somehow I gained 3 pounds in the last wk. Not good.
On the other hand, got my first "you got guns!" comment. Can't beat that.
Hmmmm...I wonder how quickly you can gain muscle wt? lol. I'll use any excuse I can right now.

Tonight I'm going to eat brownies. Yum!
Yeah right...they're Sagi style...made with black beans.
I'll let you know how it goes....just the thought of them is suppressing my appetite. lol.

M

First video....

Talk about fun! Can't wait to see the progress.
It will take some getting used to (having a video camera in my face), but I know I already like it. :-)

Kinda a trip. To be the girl with the instructional video for training.

I pretty much let Sagi do the talking this round.
I spoke a lil about my form during an exercise and some about my daily routine.

I don't want to say much until I see the video for myself. Who knows what the camera did to me. lol.

Stay tuned....should be up soon.

Misty

Oh Crap!

I just thought about it....

I sure as hell hope the camera doesn't add another 10 fkn pounds! Yikes! lol.

May 12, 2008...Follow-up post

Just a quick heads-up for everyone out there.....

First video of my training sessions with Sagi starts tomorrow. Help! Ha.
Should be posted in the next few days.

My goal is to get video footage every 2 wks to track the progress. I can't wait to see a change.

I started taking Dicana 3x/day about 5 days ago. No side effects, just energy! Gotta love it!

Now, if I could just put down the wine I'd be good to go. lol.
I have improved my diet quite a bit since I started working out 2 months ago. I try to be good all wk and just have a cheat meal (Saturday), but somehow it seems to turn into a Friday/Saturday thing and maybe some Cabernet on Sunday. (Damn, I hope Sagi doesn't read this.) lol.

I'm at the point now where I'm working out so hard 5 days a wk that I seem to be hungry ALL the time. I feel like I should be obese by now. lol. Guess that protein diet really does work. :-)

Anyways....kinda freakin about the video tomorrow, but I guess that's what it's all about....."the before."

Will let you know how it goes.

M

What It's All About...

Hey Everyone!
Thanks for checking out my page.
I was contacted by Ron from Thermolife International at the start of the year. He needed a female spokesmodel to represent Thermolife. He prefered someone in Dallas because his male spokesmodel (Sagi) resides in Dallas.

It was a tough start and I put it on the backburner for a couple of months (was couple months preggo). I stayed in touch with Ron and told him the truth about my situation and how I'd LOVE to join Thermolife, but couldn't with baby on the way.

I remember thinking, 'I don't want to pass this up, seems like such a cool company to work for.' It wasn't definite on the pregnancy (past problems) until a couple wks into January.

Ron was great! He said he totally understood and to have no worries. Thought that would be the end of that, but it wasn't. He sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and said he'd still use a past image for a current ad! He said, "Welcome to the team!" How cool is that? Being in the modeling industry for long enough I've learned people don't want something for nothing, so what gives? Nothing! There really are just genuinely nice people.

Well, I lost the baby. Sad, but I guess things happen for a reason (like I'm NOT mommy material at this stage in life! lol) Being that I was staying in touch with Ron, he knew what was going on. I told him I would still love to represent, but I had to have surgery and get over the emotional part of it all. Needless to say, the last thing on my mind at that moment was the gym! ;-)

Ron said, "cool, no problem....take your time." Ne never bugged me or said, "WTF, what's taking so long?" So....about 2 months later I said, "Lets do this!"

He agreed and said first thing's first...I meet with Sagi. Oh shit, I thought. Maybe the truth and a lot of the reason for the hesitation should come out right about NOW!

"Well Ron, you see, I don't look exactly like I do in those pictures" I've had my fun the last year or so and that involved a lot of wine and not much working out. To say I was fat wouldn't be true, but I sure as hell wasn't toned and to lose 10 pounds wouldn't hurt a girl. lol.

I thought at that moment he'd write me off and go get a model he could use NOW, not to mention the 3 months of him already waiting on me. Nope! He thought it even better. He said with Thermolife products and Sagi kicking my ass I'd be good to go in a couple of months. Then he said to get to it and go meet up with Sagi.

I did. April 8, 2008. (I had 2 wks on my own before meeting up and started hitting the gym HARD!) Little did I know that I wasn't doing much right. I lost a couple of pounds, but I could achieve the same results I did with 3 hrs a day in the gym with more effective exercise in half the time.

I hate cardio! That's an understatement...I dispise cardio! lol. I told Sagi this first thing thinking he'd say, "get off your lazy ass and do it," but quite the opposite. He said, "Ok, you won't even need it with the right workout." Sign me up! Then again I was sweating my ass off at the end of the warm-up thinking, 'ok, maybe cardio isn't all THAT bad.' Ha.

That brings me to now....that's why I'm posting this blog. I want to get my kickass body back and be ready to shoot standing next to Sagi (oh boy!) ASAP!

I want you to join me in my journey to perfection (I believe there is a such thing) and track my progress. I'm going to update my blog and pix often. Not to mention video progress! None of that hiding behond photoshop. Yikes!

Are you ready? I am!