125? 1.2.5!!!!

Hello all! Today is a fan-freaking-tastic day! I just heard someone ask why well let me tell you! Since my husband and I have been married and got into fitness I have always said I thought it would be perfect to weight 125...well this morning I got on the scale and what did I see? 125 staring right back at me!!! This is a huge deal for me...at one point during this whole thing I was like well I will never make it there so I will just be happy where I am at HAHA self I did it! Idk if anyone has seen legally blonde but when she gets her test scores back and she is like 179! 1-7-9! like freaking out? That was me this morning I was definitely doing a happy dance!

Yeah I have a feeling it is going to be a good day! Lets just hope it really does go up from here...yesterday I dropped a 45 lb on my foot and dang it hurt so badly! So lets just hope this weigh in is just a starting point for the morning and the rest of my day! Xoxo- Akundis    #beastmodeon

4 MILES!!!

Ok Kevin I know, I know I am going to bed but how could I resist telling everyone (which is really just you) that I RAN 4 MILES TODAY!!! Ok friends I have never done that before and it felt great. Honestly before this I was like you want me to run for 10 minutes...yeah you have lost your mind...but tonight I proved myself wrong and I did it. It felt amazing and I am excited to see what tomorrow has in store since I will now to go bed says my husband while he is at work for me! He is too cute I sure love him! <3 Have a fabulous night...I know I just did! Xoxo- Akundis    #beastmodeon

Shaky Body Syndrome

Alright people happy Monday (as I said before no one likes Monday)...So I have a new "Annie term" it is called SBS which stands for shaky body syndrome. The definition of this is when you workout one area of your body but you work out so hard that your entire body is shaking and its just fantastic. Not. Lol today I decided hey lets start off Monday right with a leg workout! Ok so a leg workout with my trainer is freaking hard she always kicks my butt (literally haha) but a leg workout without a trainer is harder who is there to push you?? Yourself thats right...I almost threw up several times during this work out today...super sets of legs then calves yeah OUCHY! Today was my first time doing hack squats so I think I did smaller weight than normal only because I am just getting used to the whole thing. Lets just say I super setted everything today and I felt the effects hard core. My very last exercise was 1 leg hamstring curls super setted with freaking mountain climbers...because my body wasn't dead enough. By the time I got there I was seriously thinking yeah...not happening....although they may  not have been my very best mountain climbers since I had to do 100 in a row they were still done and I felt pretty good about it! I really can tell that my legs are getting a ton stronger which is good because hopefully that means they are getting leaner! My first competition is in 25 days...my original goal was to be at 12% body fat for this competition but now I believe that won't be possible in 25 days so I have changed it to anywhere between 14.0-14.9% and then 12% for the competition in June. I am ready to kick some serious butt and get up on that stage. I know that this is crazy scary for me because honestly I have had low body self esteem pretty much for a long time. I know now I have a good body and I fuel it right. I just need to have more confidence in the hard work I have put in I mean 10 weeks with NO SUGAR and NO CHEATING on my diet? That is amazing for me just ask my husband I suck at keeping with diets so I am really proud. Bring on the next 25 days I can do this, I am a strong, confident, beautiful woman and I can seriously achieve anything that I am willing to put my mind to! Xoxo- Akundis   #beastmodeon

Sweet Sundays

Mmmmhmmmm yesterday was Sunday which means it is my day of rest! (sort of rest haha) It was so nice to sleep in and hang out with my cute husband. I will be honest though...sitting around all day makes me so incredibly lazy and tired! Seriously like struggled to get up and go to the bathroom because my body felt exhausted which happens when you lay around watching tv all day! Luckily I had Kevin there yesterday to get me off my lazy booty and make me go do cardio haha he is fantastic. he came with me and did cardio with me. We walked at an incline fast paced for 50 minutes. It was good it gave us time to talk although part of it was me complaining haha. I am excited to start this week I have a new meal plan to go off of which will be great we are carb cycling now trying to get my body fat percentage down and my weight. That combined with 8 hours of sleep a night should do the trick. Now it is off to the gym to work out! Yay for Monday's (haha not no one likes Monday!) Have a good one Xoxo- Akundis   #beastmodeon

Saturday Sickness

So...today is Saturday and my first Saturday off in 5 freaking weeks...you can imagine my excitement...Kevin and I slept in which felt amazing then got up got breakfast and were going to get ready to go to the store. Then it struck- the sickness it was awful I could seriously barely walk it was ridiculous. So a little background for y'all who do not know (which is everyone if anyone else is reading this) in the last 6 weeks I have had a tooth infection, had 4 periods (which is bad), and had an ulcer that put me in the ER. This morning for the first time in six weeks I woke up feeling good and I said it out loud...OMG my mistake I am sorry universe for saying that one. I started having cramps so bad I started crying I was pretty sure that yet again I was dying. My poor hubbs had to go do all the grocery shopping and everything by himself while I laid on our couch with a rice bag crying and being in pain. Thank goodness the heat helped so much it eventually went away. It is still sore but thats fine it is better than me curling into a ball and falling over and having the wind knocked out of me by freakin cramps. So...I slept it off a little and then felt better so off to the gym we went! It was great I did abs today and learned that two of the exercises I have been doing wrong so I corrected them and hot damn my stomach was on fire! That is awesome and I didn't have cramps during that. Then Kevin went home to get some protein and I stretched for a while then I did my cardio which was nice today because Kevin stood next to me telling me I could do it so I didn't have to mentally fatigue myself which was FANTASTIC because it gets really difficult to jog for 2 minutes then do 30 squats in under a minute for 30 minutes. It HURTS luckily I had my amazing man by my side today to help me. It felt really good to kick cardio's butt today and feel really proud that this morning although I was dying I got it under control with out pain meds and still kicked serious butt at the gym! Feeling amazing today only 27 days to go. I started carb cycling today so hopefully this will kick my body into fat loss mode. Pray for that for me! Xoxo- Akundis    #beastmodeon

Lifting the Water

Ok that is a perfect name for this post considering I just dropped the water pitcher...that was such a freaking hard work out and I LOVED IT. Today I did back and biceps and it pushed me past my limits again and it felt amazing. Sure I did smaller weights than usual and sort of felt like a wuss but at the same time my arms were so dead that I just didnt care. So lets talk about the things that impressed me about  my workout today shall we?...Well during my back work out I did Wide Grip Lat Pull Downs...started with 12 reps so normally or before now I was doing like 60 lbs today I was like ok I am only doing 12 reps lets start with 70 lbs and guess what...IT WAS EASY oh my goodness I could not even believe it I hit my chest so hard with the bar that I basically knocked the wind out of me. It felt good so as the amount of reps went down my weight went up I got to 90 lbs which is a big deal! I am pretty proud today. Then I was doing dumbbell rows and there was a guy using the 25 lbs so I thought what the heck just go up. I did the first set with 27.5 lbs and the last two with 30 lbs...FBAMF status my friends. Maybe not but I felt good about it I have never done that. Now on to the biceps (I did more back work but just usual stuff nothing to report) Ok biceps- I sstarted with these new biceps work out and it killed my biceps seriously said Holy Shi* when I was doing them because they were so hard for me. Basically I am sitting bent over with two dumbbells and they are touching and I power up into a curl. Ouch I was surprised by how badly those were hurting me. Good things though and then I had more bicep exercises...lets just say by the end when I did my hammer curls I could only lift 10 lbs on each side and that was barely I was dead. All in all it was super productive and I felt so good! I love working out and I love lifting it makes me feel really empowered like I can do anything! I am adding this picture because that is seriously how I felt today and it is an awesome pic. Sorry for the swear words on it but sometimes there is no other way to describe the feeling I had in the gym today! Time to go eat my delicious mexi-wrap. Xoxo -Akundis   #beastmodeon

Night Time Cardio

So....just got home from the good ol' nightly cardio that I do everyday of my life. It went very well today I must say! I did walking, sprinting, jogging, and incline. Today my goal was to not use the hand rails on the treadmill because sometimes if I am tired I feel like it is ok...well side note it is totally not ok!!! Well success was mine tonight I didn't use the rails and I think that part of that is because Kevin (my amazingly sexy husband) was there. Knowing that he could walk over at any  minute and "yell" at me for touching the treadmill made me fear enough haha. But seriously it felt good tonight...I didn't reach my goal today of getting down to 15% body fat and I didn't the last time either so in my  mind I just kept telling myself do you want to get to 15? Ok then don't you dare put those hands down. Motivation is key I think and it is so helpful for me when my husband is around not just because he is really fun to look at but he makes me remember why it is I am doing this. When we got married I can honestly say I have no idea why  he married me...he is extremely attractive and I was just ok nothing really special. I would always wonder what people were thinking like "why is that guy with her" you know things like that. I now know that we are both crazy attractive together and its from living this healthy lifestyle. It is fun to know that your body is at the best it has ever been and that with hard work and dedication you can seriously achieve anything. I love this journey and I love working out. <3 Xoxo- Akundis   #beastmodeon

The Beginning

Hello there! My name is Annie and I am starting a blog about my journey to doing a Physique Competition. I am currently 29 days away from it and freaking out! I needed to do something productive today and I wanted to start this blog. So a little background on me since August of 2012 I have gone from 29% body fat down to 17% body fat (measured today) which is awesome. I am trying to be at 12-14% for this first competition. Originally it was supposed to be 10-12 but I don't see that happening in 29 days but you never know! I named my blog the Purple Bikini because that is the color of my bikini for this first competition so it just seems fitting. So here is where this story should really begin...it begins this January when I met with Sandy Hancock (if you are looking to do one of these competitions call her!) when I decided that I needed some serious help getting in shape for this competition. Let me just say that the past 9 weeks have been the HARDEST thing I have ever done in my entire life. I have not had any sugar or wheat or gluten or dairy, nothing at all and it has been hard. I also do two a days at the gym so lifting and cardio. It makes me feel good when I can do the cardio and lifting all the way but can't walk down the stairs after...the you know you worked your butt off feeling yeah its fun! It has been an uphill battle for sure I was "healthy" before this but I have never been eating and keeping myself as healthy as I am now. It really does feel great .I am nervous however that I won't get my body fat down or be ready in time for this upcoming competition and honestly that scares me and makes me really, really sad. I have worked so freaking hard for this and wish my body was responding the way I want it to. Either way I can't give up now if I don't do April then I will compete in June but for now I am competing in April and I am gonna kick butt doing it! I love going to the gym and I love the feeling of knowing that I am living each day with purpose and that I honestly can do anything! Try living like this for a few weeks and you will feel like you can do anything too! Getting more and more excited by the day only 29 days to go! Gotta kick it in high gear. Maybe when I feel braver I will post pictures up here too haha. Xoxo -Akundis    #beastmodeon