[timarie]

Hey Timarie! I find your program to be very thorough and quite rigorous! It seems like you have a pretty detailed routine in terms of diet and exercise. I feel like my diet and exercise regime is so lax in comparison - it really all depends on my mood. But lately, I've felt so out-of-shape and tired (regardless of how much sleep I get a night), and I think it's due to my lack of physical activity over the past four weeks or so. So, you've inspired me to come up with a much more structured schedule for exercise!

I know it's good to eat during the same time of day on a daily basis (ex. always eating something at 8am, 12pm, 3pm, 7pm, etc.), but I feel like my schedule throws me off sometimes, and like you, I don't naturally have much of an appetite. I could also go a day only eating 1 full meal and 2 smaller meals, such as a protein bar, vitamin shake, or a croissant/danish.

I'm also interested in slimming down my waist and fattening up my butt so that my boobs don't look so flat, y'know? From the sounds of it, you're more in favor of gaining muscle than fat. It does make a difference, and I also think that muscle is more ideal long-term than fat (doesn't fat just appear to be cellulite? All ripply with dents, plus it can lead to stretch marks when you gain fat too quickly, right?).

My only issue is that I wouldn't want to look like Ms. Olympia or anything, with tons of muscle mass in my bottom. I'm just wondering if having a butt consisting of more fat than muscle may look more attractive. Just look at boobs - those are just sacks of fat. There is some muscle tissue underneath that helps to keep the boobs from sagging too much and makes them a bit perkier, but all-in-all, it's the breast fat that we're aiming to gain when we pursue NBE, right? So I'm just thinking about that because depending on whether you want to gain muscle or just fat ultimately determines which steps you take and what regime you will follow.

Anyhow, best of luck to you! Hopefully you'll re-gain your butt size and it'll keep growing~ :p

OOOhhh, great post! I know exactly what you mean. I aim to earn more muscle for my butt than fat for a couple of reasons. First off, I am naturally a pear-shaped girl and my fat naturally goes straight to my butt and my legs, so I will never be in need of fat there! No matter what I do, I will never be able to get all the fat off of my butt, so aiming on gaining muscle there will promise me a nice mix of both. I agree with you that rock-hard, super-tight booties are better looking on men Plus, I have been doing this for over a year now, and I can tell you from experience that the glute muscles are the most difficult to build (and I have heard this from various fitness trainers as well). So, I honestly don't think that, even if you tried, you would turn out having a butt like Ms. Olympia's!

I want to build muscle to help build (because no one can direct fat to specific locations of the body that they want, but you CAN spot increase with muscle!) and add MASS/SIZE to my butt without having to add over-all body fat (which is the other way for me to get a bigger butt, but I'd risk adding mass/fat in other locations of my body as well), and more importantly I want to build muscle for SHAPE. Ten years ago, when I gained a lot of weight (fat) my freshman year in college, I had a huge butt.... BUT it wasn't shaped nearly as great as it is now! It was big, but it was, well, sloppier. Now, my butt sticks out more and is more lifted, round, and perky, and doesn't appear to sag as big butts with little muscle tend to do. So, it definitely is comparable to breasts, and how important it is to have supportive muscle underneath to look good (as two different sets of breasts of the same exact size can look so different depending on how much muscle they have supporting them from underneath!). So, I completely agree with you and it sounds like we have the same goals

I started out just like you. I didn't even have a diet regimen down until this past October, and I get overwhelmed easily (which is my personal battle) so I was always taking breaks and what-not during my first few months, so I completely understand what you're going through! When the time is right, and if you keep persistent with it, you will finally get something that works for you and it will be easy to keep in your routine. And, as far as you feeling tired, I always make sure to eat something no more than an hour before I start my workout, and I take vitamin B-12 strips right before my workouts (they are sub-lingual for fast-acting results) which gives me a little energy boost. I also drink Emergen-C (it is a part of my NBE program, actually!) while at the gym. This is good because it has electrolytes, which can help you from feeling drained and light-headed.

Thanks for the post! I'm happy to have a workout buddy