Same old, same old

Eat, stretch, drink, pose, repeat..

I <3 Body

I've been knitting too.
I'm making more clothes for the winter. I have a feeling that it will be as cold as last time :)

Bus 42

getting closer...

In my last dream I was looking at time tables. Busses to the show.
I had to make a desicion on which one I'll pick.
I ended up picking bus number 42. I happened to be my PT's bus! He drove me streight to the show throught a big and crowded city. He didn't make any wrong turns and we were there -at the show- on time.
Other busses: 21, 22, 44... either never got there or made unnecessary detours or were late.

Samuli got me to the show on time :)

Flappity Flat

Oh, I found my butt :)
look...

1l of water in that tummy right there right then...

Now I've lost my boobs :(

I had them just a week ago... Maybe I forgot them at the gym? I'll ask the info lady the next time I'm there. I'll be needing them this winter 'cause I got in to that massage school I've been thinking about for years now... I finally applied and got picked! :) :) :)

Me So Happy. I knew about this last week but I've been letting the feeling really sink in before I star to get all public about it... aah, a new school, a new start, a new opportunity, a new possibility (I can work any where in the world soon!) ... the planet just got smaller, in a way.

http://www.relaxi.fi/

Would you love a viking girl?

Maybe I should do something different with my hair for Sunday?

having my glutamin with some water (secret businesssshhhh)

I need to grow my hair longer

I even FINALLY got a proper work out done!! AND I even shot short films. I feel sooooo good now that my tummy is getting better! :)

Laugh all you want :D
I did ;)

having fun at the gym :)

and more fun ;)

there's always time for some fun and games... :)

I feel about 68-72% back in the game! :) Tomorrow I'll be up to 80 or 90 %!?

back side is starting to fill up nicely :)

I'll get big legs some day <3 next year I'll be Bigger :)

flat tummy: happy Miia

I think I'll try and keep things as simple as possible and as FUN as I can make it ;)
My diet sure won't get in the way :D
Or work. I have Thursday and Friday off and I was even clever enough to remember to take Monday off too... This way I can cool down and drink a million gallons of water after the competition and not worry about going to work looking like I've just come from a long trip to a German BB-house.
No, not B&B, BB as in Big Brother. You know, that house where they lock you in, give you alcohol and videotape your most shameful moments and then sell them on TV... I would look like that happened to me if I went to work on Monday: Half my make up still stuck to my skin, all brown and dehydrated. Smelling like glaze oil and bananas. Muttering about bright lights and bikiniglue... and Germans.

I'm sure I'm better off staying home and waching an old Arnold movie like Conan the barbarian <3

Oh, the horror

Well the party down stairs still keeps going... I'm the mother of all evil and crazy crap that you can imagine coming out of a lady tube...

Frell...

So yesterday was a rest day, today looks to be like a semi rest, half "super size your carbs", love your body and MAKE SOMETHING NEW day :)

my nails are growing back... they might just make it to the show :)

I made us a new cover for the seat in the small changing room :)

The room where we leave our shoes... that small room after the front door... ääh, I don't remember what it's called.

I had maybe 10-12 % of energy left last night to even think about the show on Sunday. I'm even just calling it a show instead of a competition. BUT...

Today I jumped up to about 60%! And I'm sure that when Thursday comes along I'll be up to 80-90%!! :D

I feel fine mentally, it's just these female organs that really cramp me into a ball and take all my energy right now. I'm sure that all the work outs (very light) I'm getting done and all the streching and proper eating WILL be good enough for my body to eat up all those carbs and put them back in their places :) I just wish I'd be better already. I still look and feel like a beach ball every now and then... 

About the horror part. I had a dream. I kept the music on all night 'cause I'm home alone now and it helps to sleep (we don't have much traffic here so it's hard to sleep in the silence). I saw this dream where I walked around, here in this house... I went to the shower room to check on the laundry (to dry or not to dry, that is the question) and I saw MYSELF in the sauna!!! I had all my competition make up on, but it was running down my face, my hair was soaking wet with sweat and my tan was all dirty and sweaty. I was doing one legged lunges with 10kg kettlebells in my hands.... spooky! I woke up and was NOT happy to be home alone and constipated. The freeky ambient music didn't help either.

BRRRRRR.....crazy feeling to see yourself in a dream. I wasn't sure if I should talk to myself. I see myself every now and then but Usually we walk by each other in a big city or a store or some other public place. But this time... grrr iiiiik, I was at my house!!

I'm sleeping in the car tonight ;)

Lets play dress up

My shirts came in :)

XD

I hope I'll fit in them tomorrow :)

Gosh, I'm so hungry right now...

I wish it was morning already!!!

Houston, we have a problem

I'll just illustrate this story and you'll get the picture...

This morning I got up and went for a walk. It was the last day of ketosis and I wondered how it will go...

"Hur ska det gå?" (+6C)

I had a normal day at work... but around 3pm it started. I felt weird... I drove over to my PT around 5pm and everything was still "wrong". The party areas of my body are having their cleaning days right now so for some reason they have gotten everything else all messed up. My plumbing doesn't work anymore! All my waste disposal units are either stuck or shut down! Great :(

WTF did I eat... or not eat?

Gates to glory

empty and knows it (head included)

So now the day is almost over and I'm on my second trimester... The baby is due any day now OR in 20 weeks. Which ever comes first...

- help - I can feel it moving...

I know all things take their time but this is just stupid. I do not need a tummy THIS big just before bed and I can't understand why bleeding like a stabbed pig has to affect everything else... 

Females: all f*cked up some of the time...

But I'm not giving up. NO.

First I'll just wait this out and if nothing moves the way I want it to... I'm gonna give it a reason to move ;)

Braking the rules

I've been looking at some other fitness blogs... other than JUST Mika Nyyssölä...

Here are some of my all time favorites.
I just couldn't stay away any more :) hihihiii...

http://michaela.teambodyscience.se/blogg/

http://fitnessplace.shapemeup.se/

Yes, yes. Not in English... but Swedish is Cool ;)
And I like the way they write and talk about stuff :)
They make me feel good and that is MY main point of following other blogs :)

Wau, better ease off on the smilies...

3 hotels

At one time in my life I cleaned hotels. Well, this one hotel and it was a two week thing but it's still stuck in my head. I don't travel very much so I'm betting that every thing just adds up and these kind of dreams blurt it out:

I'm standing in a lift. It's going up. Everything is very pretty, clean metal, marble walls, super size mirror and dim lights. Perfect ambience and soft music that you can smell (it smells like wild flowers in morning mist)... mmm :)
I have three different keys. All to hotel rooms. The lift stops and I get out. I'm at a hotel lounge.
Me: "Äää... this IS the 7. floor, right?" I'm talking to myself but someone behind answers "yes, there's the check in and there are your friends." I don't look who spoke, I just stare at my friends. I've never seen them before but they seem to know me.
Me: "I have keys..."
Them (2 men with dark suits): "Yes, we are all sleeping in seperate hotels but this hotel bunch is connected through this huge lounge. All check ins and check outs go through here so we can keep an eye on each other."
Me: "How clever." I'm wondering which room would be nicest for me but I don't get to choose. The guys take their room keys and dissapear to their lifts.
I go to my room. I got the Casino hotel. It's decorated like a huge casino or a cruise ship. Even the lifts have a "sea view" (plasma screen) but I notice that they also have a toilet in them. I guess it's a TALL building if you have the luxury of peeing in the lifts. I decide not to try the toilet since I'd have to lock the lift door or just chance it :D

My room is a Japanese style luxury suite. Gold and black are the two main colors and all the tables have fresh flowers on them. Perfect copies of old Japanese dressers and side tables are located in specific Feng Shui manner... I can smell the freshness of the tatami mats.
Me: "...nice :) ..." I have no idea why I'm travelling with those men or why we have to stay in seperate but connected hotels. I go back to the lift and press "restaurant deck". Maybe I'll find something to eat this time...

The dream ended in a gun fight at the rastaurant deck. My "friends" were robbing the place and I got NOTHING to eat :(

Stupid dream!!! :O

My dreams just got wilder

"Stand by your man..." and that's all she wrote. I can't remember any other words to that Dolly Parton song but BOY did it ring in my head the whole night trough... I like Dolly <3 I wonder if Dolly Wood is still up and running?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrVo4QiC1vw

I also had this really long dream about diving. Equipments and all. I got a very precise and technical lecture from honey (under water) about the way the air is filtered in my "no bubbles - no troubles" system and how the CO is also recycled and re-used...

I was amazed of how much information can be spoken out and still not drown in the gushing sound of the sea and my breathing and all those colourful littel fishes swimming right past us... oh, they were so cute with the coral and laughing seaturtles and all :)

I do get some exercise done at nights as well... a few nights ago I was part of a Russian ice skating school. I had been hand picked from a line of crappy skaters (I suck, I know it) and taken to this huge skiing resot in the Alps (I think I've been watching too many old Bond movies again). We were give lectures about proper skating tecniques and the we were asked to show our skates. Every one else had these super cool "twin skates": skates with two blades, one under the heal and the other under the toes. They coul remove the blades and change their angle and tightness and how they flex with the shoe... I had the same old crappy skates I used as a child in school. My mother used to own them. They were OLD and soft and NOT sharp. The teachers didn't care about my skates. They just said: "ok, now go out and Skate."

Sometimes I go to stores in my dreams. Sometimes I get into trouble at the cash register. Like last time I had a dream about (almost) buying bread. This guy got infront of me. Just walked there for no reason. Blocked me and started paying for HIS stupid stuff!!! How rude!! He had a very UGLY wolly shirt, puffy hair, a wanna be -beard and a stupid nasal voice when he said: "oh, I'm sorry. Did I block you... äääh, you were too slow, äääh, I'm here now so just live with it..." 

I felt like ripping his shirt off and stabbing him with my French loaf!

But I just calmly said: "sir, you are an abomination to humanity. Get the f*ck out of my way and take you stupid shirt and change with you. I have been coming to this store for years now and I KNOW that this specific clerk CAN'T count. So don't think that you'll get the right amount of money back and DON'T think that I'll let this be. You are in MY way and YOU are about to MOVE!" He disappeared into empty air. Stupid shirt and all.

I woke up and felt a bit crazy. I don't usually loose my temper like that in my dreams (and never in real life) but that guy was SO irritating :( 

...stupid shirt.

 

Earth worm

I feel like an earth worm... every thing I do affects every part of my slimming body.
I can't get a GOOD work out in with out feeling like I've been hit with a trolly full of horses. I can't get a pump on or even get close to a burning peak of muscular development... I can't name any muscle that would look better or bigger or happier than before... ketosis, it's working ;)

Not hitting a PUMP also means NOT hitting any specific muscle... my body just moves and flows and I keep hoping that the work that gets done is SOMEWHERE near the body part I'm supposed to be training :D

1/10

On a scale from 1 to 10 I don't feel too groovy...

Fell in to a small hole for a sec there...
my female organs, those sweet pink little bundles of fun, desided that it was time to explode.

Little f*ckers :(

Why now? HOW now?
Who knows...
Who cares :)
At least they didn't do it NEXT weekend!

So last Friday was a BIG BELLY day. I coudn't really reach my toes 'cause my belly got in the way and I couldn't do s*it at the gym 'cause I cramped so hard that it took all my energy just to drive home and feel stupid for an hour...

What I did next may have been a bad idea but I went nordic walking with my new "sticks" and spent the evening outside in the sun and sand in my shoes...

My thanks go out to You! ;)

Here goes...

I've been on a competition diet for about 10 weeks now. I started this journey last year when I met my PT, Samuli Koutajoki. In January I decided that I Will compete this year but I didn't know that I'll have so many other things happening in my life that I'll actually jump off the wagon for about two months. By June I was back and asked Samuli if he thinks it's too late to compete.

During the year we never stopped working together even when I took it easy. So with the help of some good luck and old friends I started slimming down to a smaller and stronger ME about 2 months ago. I've "lost" about 2-3 kilos on this road to Lahti (since X-mas 2012) and we've (Samuli and I) kept this whole journey as a Great learning experience for me and my "synaptic cat".

Everything has (mostly) been easy and energetic. Sometimes the days stretch from 6am to 9pm but this is usually because I like to keep working all the time and I'm not the type who takes whole weeks off just to get ready for a show. I need my vacations for my "real life" not just for sitting around home and wondering how to put my hair or if my nails match my bikini. Sorry girls… :P

My Thanks go out to:
- Samuli Koutajoki and his family for all the support and knowledge I've gotten over these months. www.kuntokeskuskm.fi
- HoneyBabe for loving me even when the carbs get me (or I don't get them)
- Mom for these super genes and butt!
- Mr. Bruce J. Oreck the U.S. Ambassador to Finland for all the mentoring and that amazing American "R" I love hearing when he speaks
- Noora for taking me to the coldest place I've ever been to http://lafemmefitale.blogspot.fi/2013/07/gh-gh-gh.html
- Mika Nyyssölä for being who he is www.mikanyyssola.fi
- Sportlife.fi for their products and a great team spirit - Nicole Wilkins for saying to my face: "Go for it. You look good."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger for making the best movies in the Universe
- My cousin Mikko http://www.pakkotoisto.com/copper/thumbnails.php?album=39
- Heidi and Jari Sorsa for all their mentoring over these months
- Johanna Koskinen and Sampo Kirjovaara for guiding me when it felt like the map is upside down
- All my true friends for sticking with me and all my stalkers for keeping me on my toes…
- Sofia Virtanen for being such a pro with her camera http://www.sofiavirtanen.fi/
- Minna Hirvonen for having the softest hands and super talent for making things (me) look good http://www.glitz8glam.com/
- Joutseno Power fitness and Hakke for being there when I needed to lift something heavy. http://www.powerfitness.fi/ (I used to live there)
- My BMW E30 for always taking me to the gym and back even after a hellish leg day…
- And all those innocent chickens that got killed in the making of this body.

Apples and pies

It rained today... I felt like having a whole applepie with vanilla ice cream... didn't have any... why did the rain do this to me? --> at school, when I was little, when we had Swedish classes, we always had stories about food and baking in those classes... Swedish baking, mmmhh... :)

Ketosis is making me smaller. My butt has gone missing. If you see it, send it back to me.

warming up to a new day...

Some odd dreams...

I had dreams after my first show...
I used a lot of hair powder to keep my hair looking big and dry... in my dream I over did it and my hair turned into some kind of a mass of white foam and spaghetti. It felt very soft and light but it looked like the top of a cauliflower :(
I went on stage with it.

In another dream I saw my honey and his son building a moose out of a old dog's hide and a fake moose head. The fake moose came to life and wagged its tail every time it saw me. Eventually it turned into a real german shepherd and later on into a rottweiler. It didn't seem to have anything else to do but to hang around the house and sleep in everyone elses beds like he owned them. Fat puppy.

Raisins...

I like raisins when I can't have any... I love yoghurt when I can't have any... I lust after blood pancakes and lingonberry jam when I can't have any... I'll have all of these and more (foods made out of liver and super dry dark bread with sour milk and muesli and kiwis and blue cheese... Oih, I love it with avocado or gingerbread...) some day...

BUT My food is just healthy crap for a little while longer:

stupid banana got in the picture...

oh yummy...

The smell of napalm in the morning

cute sun... (+17C)

nice fog :) (+15C)

I like the smell of gun powder in the morning, I also like smells like "burning wood", "hot sausages", "morning porridge with berries and cottage cheese"... ohhh, carbs... :)

I once cooked up so much napalm for a fire exercise that it took the whole day to burn it out and the heat was SO intence that we couldn't start the drill on time :D

My Crazy kitchen alright...

EAA

I got this from Sportlife to brighten up my days and to keep me on track... I used to drink it with some BCAA during my work days just so that I'm not only flushing my guts with water and tea in between meals...

Tastes good and doesn't make my tummy unhappy :)

I think I'll get back to these "special drinks" after I'm done with these fitness shows and back at living the real life of Growth ;)

http://www.sportlife.fi/tuotteet.php?grid=17

"Who is your daddy and what does he do..."

A quote from Arnold there ;)

Gosh, I love Arnold <3
Oh, How does he DO IT, so well that I always try to GET TO THE CHOPPER when I hear him say AAARHGHG-AG-AG... GIVE THESE PEOPLE AIR...!!

My PT Mr. Samuli Koutajoki

Some of the first conversations with my PT went something like this:

Me: "Can you give me 4-5 hours of your time next month and go through my body so that you can tell me what is good and what needs work."

Samuli: "Yes."
Me: "Can you help me build my legs beautiful?"

Samuli: "Yes."

I was sold. And he got booked for the next year...

He sees me every week, I see him twice a month. Now in competition season we see weekly but some of the talks and guidance is done without booking a specific time... I just hang around his gym after my work out and we share a "PT-moment" kind of like this one:

Samuli, lifting weights back to their places at his gym: "Hi, Miia. How do you feel? You look pumped."
Me, drinking my recovery drink: " Hi! I feel great. I had this cool dream last night about being at here at this gym with Nicole Wilkins and guess what... It came true :)"
Samuli: "Good Miia, keep it up."
Me: "Sir, Yes, Sir!"

Nicole, me and Yasemin the day I decided to compete THIS year :) 31.5.2013

I've been dieting for 8-9 weeks now... Still got 2 weeks to go 'till my next show.

Will it be the last one for now... who knows. I know I'll still keep training and enjoying the Fit life :)

So should You! ;)

X-country skiing

No snow yet...

It's about 4,5 months since I've last skied... It was a nice day...

Last night I had a long dream about skiing at night... I followed other peoples tracks and my lamp was not good. All the turns and twists in the tracks were a surprice. Some tracks lead to wrong places ;)

I kept going, I had good skies :)

I also had a long dream about meeting the president of Finland on Finland's birthday. I was at this huge party and I was queuing so I could shake the president's hand... I was a bit nervous about stepping in to the lights 'cause I knew that the party was being taped and cameras were all over every ones faces and dresses... I was hoping that some one would know "why" I was there and "who" I was. 

a good way to start the day... :)

Hunger is back... a storm in my belly... a black hole begging to be fed. I can't. I have a feeding schedule. I will not deviate from it. :)

Now for some green tea and Wipeout.

Eat, eat, eat

I'm so hungry that I could eat a bag of nuts... with chili. It doesn't sound like much but if you knew me well you'd understand that this does not happen... like ever. All I've done is that I've dropped the porridge from my breakfast and added some normal cashew nuts to two "drop points" in my day... Last night I stood by and looked at my friend Anu (she is a vegetarian in real life) eating a juicy chicken and she didn't share one bit of it with me :( I had a crooked cucumber, ugly tomatoes and some kind of indian bread (naan bread?) and she JUST wouldn't share any of her perfect protein... So I had nothing. I didn't even eat that hot, soft bread I was holding. Oh, GOD! Why!!?? Why dreams like this? ...I think I'll be in ketosis in a couple of days and things will get A LOT easier. :) Just wait.

Zombies

I do not like zombies, I do not like zombie stories and I do not like zombie parties.

I can't reason with them (zombies), they don't make good pets AND they keep wanting to eat my brain! Like, what is it with them???

I know 2 good zombie movies. Both are comedies about nice zombies with nice people...

Last night's dream was not nice:

I thought I was looking at an episode of the Walking dead. No, I wasn't. It was all quite "real."
Two humans, a black woman with big lips and a hispanic man (some kind of a mexican maybe?) were cooking a piece of corn (the whole corncob I mean...) on a frying pan. Thay were screaming and coveting it in a really crazy and over theatrical way. I looked over to the corner of that small kitchen and saw a bald man covered in dusty leather clothes and ash scrubbed all over his naked body. I looked at him a bit longer 'cause he seemed to be eating the wall but actually he was eating a piece of pipe or somekind of a long, thick tendon... I thought it was from a cow. He kept chewing at that tendon and growling at me, the others were fighting over the piece of cob and that's when I saw it. The man in the corner was a "zombie follower". He was wearing someone elses skin! He had this bolero of skin on him and he was also wearing "pants" of some sort... the skin on them was the wrong way around (front to back). Yäk!

I didn't feel too good. What the hell was I doing there with these idiots?! I felt sick and passed out for just a moment... I woke up on the floor. Slowly I opened my eyes. I saw the two other people hanging from the roof... or what was left of them. They had been gutted. Legs had been cut off, arms too. Skin ripped off but the head was still hanging there, brains missing... The piece of corn was lying on the floor and both of their torsos kept shaking and moving at it. What ever was left of their heads ans faces was still trying to get to that piece of food. The woman still had her upper lip left as she tried to scream at that cob. The man had only the top of his face left but both of them kept staring at that little, yellow delight... The gray "zombie-lover" looked at me and stepped down from his table where he had sat and eaten his "dinner". Something he found in one of the other humans...

I woke up like lightning and went to the toilet, put the light on and washed my face.

Shit! What a bad dream!  
:(

W.O.D.

Work out of the day:

chest and shoulders :)
ok, some squats too, but just for the fun of it!

@ http://kky.fi/

trying to look cool, but just looking tired... :)

orphan?

Today on Wild, wild Gym we find a small and orphaned red-eyed-dumbbell all alone behind the calf-torturer... If you creep up to it really slowly and keep your scent hidden behind a half opened proteinshaker, you can almost hear it whispering: "lift me... lift me..."

Spooky, eh?

Stage

A short video from Tampere:

Tampere in my memories

Lets just look at some pictures shall we...

just 2 hours out...

my bikini rocks :)

Lets GO already!!

1 hour out and bored...

Ohh, second place for the "bad girl" ;)

I had only ten small fries, the burger was AWESOME!

I couldn't fit it all in... :)

nice belly :)

my best friend: H2O

the next morning = perfect 53,2kg

2nd place wasn't in the nails... crappy nails but WHO cares! ;)
I have to cut them anyway 'cause I have that massage school thing coming up...