I will not lecture. I will not lecture. I will not lecture.
You look fab. Period. Own it. No one else will own it for you.
But even more important. You are fab. Believe it or not, many people enter relationships for much more than physical appearance.
Thanks.
I’m finding Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays very inconvenient days to work out, schedule-wise; I think I’ll have to change my schedule to use the other four days of the week. (When your work schedule and your presumed workout schedule don’t sync up, you wind up missing workouts and have trouble getting your work done until you figure out the discrepancy.)
Anyhow, food today:
Breakfast: oatmeal, coffee with milk
Lunch: roast beef and cheese sandwich on whole wheat
Dinner: stir fried turkey and veggies, steamed broccoli
totals: 1351 kcal, p/f/c 108.0/52.3/66.7
Alisa,
Water seeks its own level.
If you look the way you do and continue to strive for the look you want, you will only attract like-minded guys with the same discipline in the gym and kitchen. That’s preferable to having to look for those kind of guys, right?
I’m pretty sure you’re still dating the same guy, but keep the above in mind. Once you hit a point where people can’t “figure out” why you do what you do, you KNOW you’re on the right track, because you are so far ahead of the general consensus that the only reference point that matters is where you are today and where you want to be tomorrow.
Don’t let peer judgment be that anchor that holds you back. You’re not in high school. You’re a grown woman, in graduate school, doing what most girls (even most men) will never do, with a grace that none of those people probably have. Seriously, grad school - you’re a math major, I think - AND heavy lifting? Sounds like someone that has her own agenda - always sexy and always admirable.
^what he said.
Yo Alisa, you’re in my neighborhood now. Let’s get together and show those skinny girls we mean business. PM me. Momma’s always on call.
Everyone else has said it much better than I could. I’ve admired you from afar for your articulate and well thought out posts.
I can understand your insecurity. When I was younger I never really felt like I meshed with the rest of the herd for a variety of reasons. It was like everyone else was hearing different music than I was. As I aged and gained confidence, I realised that the best music to move to was the music I could hear. Chase your own passions and be who you are and it’s like a light goes on in your life.
I apologize for the clumsy analogy but that’s kind of what it was always like for me. Just be the weightlifting, pumpkin faced, math grad student like it’s your job and revel in it.
do the meeeeeeeeeeeet!!!
you’re lovely!! I get it being surrounded by skinny college co-eds…screw em. I personally think that look is quite boring. you are hot! You got my vote.
Thanks. I really appreciate all this support and I think I have my head screwed on better thanks to you all.
Ponce, I’m single. 
And it occurs to me that I have now stumbled into two endeavors that involve chalk. I’m going to have chalk all over my hands (and nose and pants) for most of my life.
[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I can understand your insecurity. When I was younger I never really felt like I meshed with the rest of the herd for a variety of reasons. It was like everyone else was hearing different music than I was. As I aged and gained confidence, I realised that the best music to move to was the music I could hear. Chase your own passions and be who you are and it’s like a light goes on in your life.[/quote]
I couldn’t have described this better myself. Very true, in my experience.
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Yo Alisa, you’re in my neighborhood now. Let’s get together and show those skinny girls we mean business. PM me. Momma’s always on call.[/quote]
your so lucky Alisa!!
Listen to the Momma! 
[quote] the owl wrote:
Once you are completely on board mentally with what you want to do, the path you need to take will become illuminated and it will be easier and more natural for you to establish the habits you need to reach your goals. Comparing yourself to people with different goals than yourself will definitely undermine all of this. Its like being a classically trained operatic vocalist and then wondering why you suck at playing the violin. I’m not saying you should stop being hard on yourself, but I am saying to define your standards so you can at least be hard on yourself in a rational, constructive manner. Also, give yourself some credit already. You deserve to be comfortable in your own skin.
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[quote]ouroboro_s wrote:
I realised that the best music to move to was the music I could hear. Chase your own passions and be who you are and it’s like a light goes on in your life.
Just be the weightlifting, pumpkin faced, math grad student like it’s your job and revel in it.[/quote]
words worth rereading over and over.
you kick ass alisa. don’t forget it.
best time of year to be a pumpkin face! =+)
bench: 10@45, 5@85, 5@95, 2/1@105
then I realized suddenly that all my life I’ve been practically doing close grip bench – so I widened my grip.
5@85, 5@95, 3@105
If I’d started fresh, I think I could have busted that plateau. Wider grip really is a miracle.
close grip bench: 2@95, 4x5@85
Kroc rows: 5x10@40 each arm
Arnold presses: 10/10/5@20
food:
lunch: ground beef, eggplant and hummus
dinner: steak, spinach
totals: 1173 kcal, p/f/c 103.9/72.8/6.0
volume day:
squats: 10@45, 10@95, 10/10/5/5/5@115
RDL’s: 4x8@135
glute machine: 4x10@117.5 each leg
adductor machine: 3x10@90
some one-legged squats to a bench to see if I could do 'em.
The strongest guy in the gym talked to me! And I was so shy I literally couldn’t get the words out.
Him: “So what are you doing next? You’ve been doing all the same exercises as me so far.”
Me: “I dunno, I think I better go to the glub-glub-glub-glute machine.”
too cute 
Definitely too cute. But if you don’t eat more, there will be no ass for him to grab and he’ll start looking elsewhere.
food:
breakfast: scone, coffee with milk
lunch: broccoli, kung pao chicken
dinner: hot dog, roast beef, broccoli, apple
totals: 1884 kcal, p/f/c 122.8/114.4/49.6
bench:
10@45, 10@65, 8@85, 4x5@95
press:
10@45, 10@55, 5@65
curls:
10@25, 4x10@35
lat raises:
10@12.5’s, 3x10@15’s
barbell rows:
10@45, 5x5@95
awwww I like that story about the guy… so cute.
And I’m also making little frowny face at your protein consumption. Doll you gotta try to get at least one gram per LB of body weight every. single. day. MORE on big volume! Put in a protein drink and some carbs post workout and you will make The Hallowed happier.
Alisa your most recent T-Vixen pics show off your hard work. You look strong and sexy.