helen_melon_42's blog

Last weekend I had the opportunity to support the greatest pinay role model...Mona Liza Reyes! As you all know, she competed in the NPC USA Bodybuilding and Figure Championships in Las Vegas.

It's been a while since I've blogged...there's been so many life-changing things going on in my life right now! My mom officially retired last friday and my parents are moving out and relocating to another state in 3 days to be with my older brother. With that happening, Dan (my civil husband/fiance/best friend) is FINALLY moving in!

I've been feeling so overwhelmed and extremely irritated with the lack of free time I have each day of the week that it's affecting my spirit. I've got so much on my plate right now that I don't even have time to breathe! My Mondays-Fridays (except Wednesdays when I don't train but end up being super busy anyway) look like this:

5:45am - Wake up and get dressed
6:00am - Leave the house to go to my work gym
6:30am to 7:00am -Do cardio
7:00am to 7:30am - Get changed and go to work
7:30am to 5:45pm - Work for 10 hours straight

I met up with an old college friend of mine last night for dinner and while he's a vegetarian, well....i'm not. So I usually have him choose the restaurant. Most of the time it's a miss since I'm not a huge fan of food that looks like meat but isn't. This time he decided to try an organic vegan raw food restaurant. Interesting?

I was driving the other day around Chatsworth (for those who aren’t familiar with Chatsworth, it’s a “suburb” of the San Fernando Valley, which in turn, is a “suburb” of Los Angeles) and my husband spotted a hole-in-the-wall stored called “Nutrition Depot” and it had a sign that said “Lowest Prices in California.” We were on our way to pick up my mom and have lunch so on our way back home, we made it a point to stop by Nutrition Depot, just to see how low these prices really were.

I’m a design engineer for the nation’s largest municipality and what do I do all day? For the most part, I sit on my butt in front of the computer from 730am to 6pm, 5 days a week. I look at drawings, write reports, draw on AutoCAD. I also tend to work during lunch hour (gosh I’m so dedicated!) so there goes another hour of sitting on my butt. Like millions of Americans out there, my job is confined in a cubicle, in front of a computer. So what’s my secret to a 20 pound weight loss and a 103 pound maintenance? It’s easy….EAT CLEAN!

Like all 32 billion members of Myspace, i'm a mild Myspace addict. I could potentially be a severe Myspace addict but fortunately, Myspace is blocked on my work internet.

I spend 11 hours of my day at work, 2 hours in the gym, 2 hours driving, and 7 hours sleeping, which leaves me with 2 hours of spare time...most of it on Myspace. But I've made a (belated) New Year's resolution. As of yesterday at 10:49pm, I have officially declared a temporary Myspace retirement so that I can focus on Myfittribe.com!