Texas Sized Dream

    If you're not from Texas what is the first thing that comes to your mind when thinking about the lovely state I call home?
  EXACTLY! BIGGER!

     And it is no stereotype! Everything from food to hair is bigger in the bluebonnet state and my dream is no exception. Many people "'round these parts" may also fall into the category of a bigger waistline  but in the NPC Bikini world that is the opposite of what ladies strive for. The Texas ladies who call bodybuilding their life will tell you that they work the hardest and are not afraid to work their butts off to make it to the top 5.

    For years I have thought of a portion to be way bigger than what it actually should be, which is no different than what a lot of people think around the country as well. By far the biggest change in my diet during this transformation into the competition ready body is the amount of food on my plate. Portion is everything!

    Any bodybuilder will tell you that failure to plan is planning to fail and that is way too true! My Sundays are now devoted to prepping meals for the week ahead and the most import tool when prepping my meals is my scale. Everything must be weighed out to the ounce and nothing more or less. Prepping my foods is very handy when knowing how much I eat but also when I don't have time to make food. Lets be real, I work and go to school. I cant stop in the middle of class and grill up some chicken or pop a sweet potato in the over, no, thats why it is so important to prep the food you will eat during the week ahead of time. Another thing I have noticed is that when I don't prep my foods I tend to go for the less healthy options. When I get home from school the first thing I think about is food which I am sure a lot of you can relate to. I want to hurry and get home and eat but if I don't have my perfectly portioned meal ready to pop in the microwave I will settle for those pretzels or crackers in my pantry, anything to ease the hunger. But if I have my meals ready all I need to do is pop it into the microwave for a couple of minutes and I am satisfied. It also helps to get plastic containers to store your food in that are a relatively smaller size, that way you can portion out your food and also feel like your eating a lot more than you are because you see the empty container at the end (and trust me, at the end of a workout it will be squeaky clean!)

Below are what my meals typically look like. However, I am starting a more intense training this weekend with my coach so they will change up a bit but these meals are great for those wanting to lose some weight for summer or gain a little more "girly muscles". :)

5 oz. Swai fish with a cup of green beans.

      5 oz. Grilled chicken with a cup of green beans

    Nicole Nagrani

Another fun little fact that my coach just told me.. The Ms. Bikini Olympia from 2011 was a college student! That definitly makes me feel better knowing that a Pro Bikini competitor is not much older than me!

                                                          

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Countdown to competition: 184 Days