thendanisays

its easy (says the girl who's afraid of cameras. haha) just get in front of a camera and tell us what youve been up to. what have you been eating? How have you been training? rip into LnG and RC a little. you know, the usual! you cant be shy in front of us if your gonna get up on stage in your skivvies.

this ruins me everytime i let it happen. keep up the good work. you should film some vlogs too!

This is good advice from Tasha! All of it! I find that i never make gains as well as when i'm recording my workouts and food intake. also, try to take in a fair amount of protein. you dont necissarily have to go crazy with it, but I personally have found superior gains on a higher protein diet. shakes, tempeh, tofu, seitan, legumes are all great sources. Welcome to the boards. oh and i love your name also!

Have i really never posted here??? Anyway, i read frequently. keep up the good work joe! I love seeing your food pictures. they make me HUNGRY THOUGH!

surreal. i'm excited. I'm so proud of you guys.

I got all excited cuz i thought someone was gonna say that this protein wasn't discontinued any longer. HAHAHA but that is so sweet washer. i love you. I'm pretty sure that i did post an intro though...with some scary before and after pictures hahahaha. oh washer. i love you.

Welcome to the board. There's a lot of information going around. Feel free to ask any questions!

Welcome! I also live in Portland Or with my boyfriend Lean and Green whom you will find all over this board. He's a raw foodist who's about 6-7 weeks out from a bodybuilding contest. PM him or myself and we'll get in touch!

Your goals, dreams are coming true Washer is so proud of you !!! Wow, reading this was so weird. I'm really proud of you too. Youre really an amazing individual babe-like no other. and you dont just talk the talk do you? and the proof is in the (vegan) pudding. I heart Lean and Green.

WHOA WHOA WHOA WHOA!!!!! What the hell? This thread went to crap! Listen Giacomo....THERE IS KISSING IN BODYBUILDING! And I will continue stealing them from you right up until competition day you hear me???? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXieKmlkdcc and as for you Zack. youre damn sexy. get over it. <3<3<3<3<3

Johan, dont take it personal. he's manstruating. for serious. i was reading your post and then his response and i was like "Giacomo, he was just kidding." Hahahaha. ...........????? are we talking about YOU? i dont THINK so!!!! just kidding all. LnG is an absolute peach ninety percent of the time. and the other ten percent, he's cutting. and he grows horns. honest.

When I read this I literally burst out in laughter. I think a tear came dripping down my face as well. Chica gimme permission to quote you in my sig! Pretty pretty please. Permission granted! I'm flattered that my self-degradation is so amusing. but i digress--from zacks hotness which is fo' realz. I may or may not have some pictures up in the near future. i have certainly fallen from fit since the last pictures i posted (in august?) and am just now starting to get any semblance of confidence back. baby steps. baby steps oh tashie. you may just be the sweetest friend on EARTH! I adore you and am very lucky to have you so dear to me Thanks for being so awesome all the time. ....and youre right--zack is a brat.....despite his sweet'n'sexy bod. sigh He's gonna kill me.....

youre a monster. its freaking awesome. me, tasha and giacomo just sat around our kitchen table this morning talking about how muscley and huge you are! Youre a household name!!!! YEAH........BUDDAY!

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA!~ You just walked out the door with giacomo and i am CRACKING UP! TOO FUNNY! oh man Tasha I freaking love you! aaaaaaaaaanyway, i havent written in this in too long, but its because i havent had too much to say, but i am happy to announce that i am nearly 100% back on track! yeah melissa, measuring everything out and blah blah blah. I have lost a total of 10 pounds since january which is cool but i have about another ten to go until im satisfied, but ive been really consistant and its paying off FINALLY! i keep bitching about how i feel so fat and gross compared to how i felt this passed summer but i feel like i am a lot stronger than i was then, so i guess all they hype about bulking to get stronger is in fact true. yeah i put on more than i would have liked, but its all a big experiment i suppose. Its funny how being at 17% bf for so long made 22% feel like a whale. I guess thats really speaks about how far i've come since before i got into fitness and health i was about 40% bf. whoa. but i cant wait to be back to around 18%. That'd be nice. I've been mixing up workouts a lot lately. With my new job working me around the clock (literally nearly 80 hours/week) I was having a hard time finding a groove for my health. (16 hour shifts with nor breaks definately lead to eating french fries at midnight ) But i'm finally back to packing my cooler in the morning and protein shakes up the wazoo. Its still more calories than i was eating in the summer, but i'm also more active (i've been mixing up the cardio too) and i'm also bigger and need to eat more. Hopefully it'll drop in about a month. I'm really enjoying watching the scale go down. and its kind of fun because Giacomo is cutting for his competetion (YB?) so we're both restricting and we get freaking miserable about it sometimes and act like two feral cats at each other. then i just think about why we're so bitchy and then i laugh. on the plus side--I SHARE MY LIVING QUARTERS WITH A HOT VEGAN BODYBUILDER WHOSE GETTING SHREDDED BEFORE MY VERY EYES!!!.....so there's really not much to complain about. heehee. i love my life. oh. p.s. zack's way super hot too. and i'm s dirty lil skank for saying so--and thats ok.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY........BUDDAY!!!!!

i dont get it

As i get better and better with the good ole hula hoop, i keep trying to find different kinds of music to try it out with. This guy (and tihs song particularly) are definately my favorite. He's just so damn loveable and weird. its great!

I never said you're the bad guy-everyone is entitled. and i DO see where you're coming from and i actually agree. We can't solve the problems of other countries but we can help our own and the fact of the matter is, they're going to come here either way because of their own reasons be them pure or less than that. so we might as well have a better system of making them legal, than a standard credit check. I know a lot of shitty people with plenty of money in the bank, that doesn't mean i want to be housemates with them you know? I certainly don't think that i have all of the answers, but i do feel like i've seen a lot of different angles on this subject specifically and i've spent a lot of time (like 3 years) trying to find my own personal ways out of it to no avail. I get just as mad as anyone else when i see some illegals just being overall scumbags, and i feel bad when i see an illegal make it so an american cant get a job because he'll do it cheaper. its a heartbreaking and often dismal situation, but more often than not, it's the system, not the people, that are to blame. Overhaul the system. thats all i got.

i, myself, am all for legal immigration as well. however, let me paint you a picture. my ex boyfriend, and current best friend is a brazilian illegal immigrant whom when i met, spoke no english at all as he was fresh over the border at 18 years old. His baby sister was malnourished and likely to die. Both of his parents work on coffee farms about 60-70 hours a week and they CANNOT get by on it. He also quit school when he was 12 to do work. When he turned 18, he decided he couldn't watch his sister die and he had to do something. so he flew to mexico, and rafted across a river. he was immediately arrested , fingerprinted, had his photo taken, and was released.........i shit you not. Anyway, the point of the story is, he works harder than ANYONE i know. 80 hours a week doing shit work. and he's an angel all around. never so much as smoked a butt in his life, let alone any sort of criminal act. he does everything here as "legally" as he can. he has car insurance and pays all his bills on time. he WISHES that he could have documentation so he COULD pay taxes. but there is no way. When i asked him why he didnt just find a way to do it legally, he said you had to have Xamount of money in the bank to even get on the several-year-long waiting list. But the truth is that he lives in fear. He's scared to death of everything, because if he DOES get deported, not only will he never be able to come here legally EVER, but his own country will jail him for some amount of time. If he could have been a legal immigrant, he would have. and the one time he did have to go to the hospital, we sure as shit got a hefty bill for it. and it was paid in full, that billing cycle. Now, I understand that i can't build a case on one individual. But i know and am friends with many illegals and the truth is that for many of them, we have no idea what really brought them here. and moreover we, as people who love our families and children, would probably do the same if there was no other way. I mean, we all came from immigrants, didnt we? I agree that the number of illegals in this country DOES put a strain on a lot of our finances. But if we DID document them, we would have an awful lot more in taxes getting paid to the government..... But more than that, if there were a reasonable system for becoming a legal immigrant. (case by case basis? Background/drug tests? No tolerance rules? ) than we wouldnt be in a such a jam in the first place. just some thoughts...... and finally...and this is where people may choose to debate me probably...if the government is so concerned with illegals....why do they turn them loose at the border? because its all a facade imho. just my two cents.

stunning. thanks brat.

one thing i can think of thats kind of weird is film. like 35mm camera type film... dont know why though. oh-and most condoms.

Lean and Green is no fun.

i would have won that. for serious.

Hey! Thanks everybody (except zack) !!!!! I had a great time going out for my birthday yesterday! Giacomo surprised me and took me to an awesome jazz show! We saw Mccoy Tyner! He's a piano LEGEND who was taught by John Coltrane. I was thrilled. Then we went bowling with robert tasha and jessi and a few friends from work. It was awesome. oh and he sang his song to me this morning and i laughed my ass off at him. its not snowing for the first time on my birthday in years. woo hoo! Thankd Penguin! Aquarius chicks ROCK! especially vegan ones! YB!

Maybe if you put your foot in your mouth and really thought about the principle of "target demographic" for American NFL fans, you'd see the glass as half full instead of half empty. Target demographic? is that what they were doing? Gee-willikers i hadn't even thought of that! Well then i guess its just fine then! hardly. there was nothing about that ad that was gonna make people-be them intelligent and collected, or hollering and wasted-want to be a vegetarian. it was stupid. it was exploitive. it was just a way to get a whole bunch of unnecessary negative attention from about 90% of angles. if you feel differently, that is fine. but unfortunately the few people who will agree with you are men who are interested in tits and ass, not vegetarianism and as far as i can see--thats not the message peta was "trying" to convey. so the ad is moot.