Week 9: POSITIVITY!

This week really showed what commitment, perseverance, and a positive attitude can do. On Monday Luke and I drove back to Mt. Pleasant from my home town and went straight to the gym for leg day. I missed measuring my BF on Saturday so before our workout I had it measured.



I was 14.5% BF and 139 pounds. I was defeated.



I was mad at myself and unsure where I went wrong saying over and over

Week 10 Update: Caution this is long

Body image is one hell of a thing. One day, heck one minute, you can look in a mirror and feel beautiful and confident in your body and the next time you look you could hate what you see.






The mirror, the light, the angle, the time of day, all factors we think about every time we look into the mirror. They're all excuses that women, and men, make to boost their confidence and convince

Proper Preparation Fail

This prep has been rough thus far. Partly because of my own frustrations doing it all on my own, but also because I haven't been giving 100%. Not knowing how my body reacts to anything has been the hardest part I've found. 



Yesterday marked week 11 and while my weight has gone down, my bodyfat has not.









This week I talked with a friend and we adjusted my macros and I've committed 3

International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights

The 13th International Symposium on Genital Autonomy and Children’s Rights will be held on July 24-26, 2014 at the University of Colorado in Boulder Colorado, USA.

The conference is being presented by the U.S. groups NoCirc and Intact America, as well as several other European groups. 

With respect to infant circumcision in the U.S. and Israel, what has been an accepted procedure is now being questioned, and the movement against it is now worldwide and growing.

I will lecture on Unconscious cruelty: Exploring the emotions behind genital cutting. The central themes will be Reich’s discovery of the lifelong effects of early infant trauma and the central role the emotional plague plays in continuing this brutal practice. A video will be shown of a patient in a typical orgone therapy session and another of him describing what he experienced when he relived his circumcision in treatment.

My daughter, Rebecca Wald, is a pioneer in the movement to question Jewish circumcision. Her topic, An unlikely activist’s journey Beyond the Bris, will discuss her website, which provides timely news and opinion articles on this topic.  

In a second lecture she and her co-author will talk about their forthcoming book, Celebrating Brit Shalom. The book provides the information needed to enable families to welcome their infant boys into the Jewish religion—without circumcision. There is an active Kickstarter campaign to help fund and promote the completion of the book. 

Figuring Out FIgure

A lot of people at work have been asking about this "bodybuilding" competition and what I do for it, how I train, and a million other questions. So I decided to make a general post about what I'm doing for those of you who are interested in learning a bit about it.

So, for women there are four, well five, categories of competition: bikini, figure, physique, and bodybuilding with the fifth being