This is true. Good point.
You will be amazing in the competition for sure.

Cherished I always wonder why I would woke up with a flat stomach and by lunchtime I would look pregnant again! 😞 I thought it was because I had no food in my system for when Im asleep during the night. But it make sure about ehat you said! I am going to pamper myself more often instead of saving it for special occasions! 😀

First of all,Cherished,  best of luck with the competition! You are so positive that you will get that trophy for sure! I used to work in a bodybuilding gym and I know what a fun process training for competition can be.

I absolutely love the ideas you give here about feeling like you've come out of a beauty salon! I'm going to try it as from today. I sometimes have a visualization where I spread a super imaginary beauty "mask" on my face, and I feel my skin tingling as it does its work. For some reason it is more effective than using a real mask and the curious thing that I've noticed is that I really do get a lot of compliments when I use that visualization.

About the thing of feeling bloated as the day goes on or if you eat something like a cupcake, I think you have a good point about it being in the mind. Like when I was working in the gym I used to read a lot of muscle magazines and stuff. And I remember how everyone seemed so hyper-anxious about every single thing that passed their lips. But then I would read about a top ex female bodybuilder (Cory Everson), who mentioned that she always had a daily chocolate-chip cookie, or a snickers bar - or whatever - right up to the day of competition! She also said that away from competition time she ate whatever she wanted (and never had any problems with it). And it began to dawn on me that probably she was able to eat these kind of things and not bloat up because she BELIEVED that her body would still be beautiful, and even thrive on it.

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