The Ugly Side of Bikini Training

Well I'm two weeks out and I'm experiencing well rather unpleasant subject matter but I learned that it's definitely not just me and it's a part of training, came to find out.

I remember Yoko mentioning something about digestion system slowing down but that was around when I was about 16 weeks out so I really didn't pay too much attention to it. And right around three weeks out I hit a wall. You know you see memes about body building and "protein farts" - that's definitely true, haha. I joked that Vince and I are not fart buddies. I know, I'm a girl and girls aren't supposed to fart or burp or anything like that but we're humans!

Just because it's clean when you eat it, it doesn't mean it's clean coming out the other end (gross I know, but I said that I would document every bit of this journey). On top of the things we have to do and think about, we also have to deal with the "aroma" that comes with training. Let's see, I now have to eat my cold fish (tilapia or cod) on the fire stair escape along with my asparagus or brocoli because my pod mates at work no longer appreciate it. "What's that smell? It must be Ronnie's food". I seriously don't know how I hold my gas at work in but when I'm home, it's game on, haha! And with all the too closely monitored gallon and a half of water a day in combination with yummy asparagus and multivitamins, you have a neon colored not so pleasant smelling pee, (what feels like) every 5 minutes.

Then the extra sweating during morning cardio, posing class (yes posing) and then night workouts. My hair and skin is taking a toll having to shower twice a day. I've been lathering myself with coconut oil to help moisturize my skin along the way.

This week, I've been dealing with bloating and not being able "go" regularly. I felt so miserable. I didn't expect it at all because my diet hasn't really changed. I mean, I haven't introduced anything new. I've been eating pretty much the same thing for the past 16 weeks and I've been fine then all of the sudden my digestive system decided that it's tired of being regular? And it's so frustrating because you've been busting your butt with cardio to burn off fat and endless ab exercises just to look 6 months pregnant with all the bloating (and water retention). So last week we tried a couple of things to help with that. Thank God!

After talking to a few girls at the gym and Yoko, apparently this unpleasantness isn't all that uncommon. Almost everyone goes through it. It's nice to know that my body is not the only one deciding to go through this funkiness!