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Check this page for the latest news and recent site updates! If you want, you can see a complete list
of my diary entries here.But for now, here is some of what’s going on... |
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November 2004 Well, I guess most of you get surprised when you see that suddenly I have decided to write some news. I know it has been far, far too long and I don’t really have a proper excuse even. The main reason while I stopped writing regurlarly was that in the beginning of year 2003 I found out I was pregnant. We had it planned, but didn’t expect it to work on the first try as it did so we were both happy and very surprised it could happen so fast. I didn’t want to mention too much about it until I knew everything worked out fine. It did! October 13th 2003 our lovely baby daughter Tindra was born. While I was pregnant I didn’t train at all as I was over-trained and quite frankly fed up with the whole thing after such a long time of dieting and competing many years in a row. After Tindra was born I started training mainly to get in shape again and it only took me 7 months to reach my goal-weight where I look quite ok. I trained at home in our gym in the basement during this period, along with morning walks and proper food of course. A few weeks later I found out I was pregnant again. We had planned to have two or three children near in age so it was yet another nice surprise. At the moment I am once more laying low with training as our next baby-girl (I’m positive it’s another girl although I don’t really know) is due in February 2005. Those of you that know some about training know that you only lose a few kilos muscles a year if you don’t train at all. At least if you have spent 15 years growing them as I have. There fore I am not worried at all about being able to get back in my old shape after the next baby. That is if I feel I want to. I went to the Swedish Championships to coach a friend of mine a few weeks back and then, for the first time since Tindra was born, I really felt the urge of some hard-core training again. So at the moment I think I will take a couple of months with light training after the next baby is born and then I really want to start train heavy again. That is how I feel today. Those of you that stay in touch with my website will see how it goes. New photos are up as I hope you have noticed, and I still have more photos yet not published to entertain you all until the next baby is born. So keep on training, and I hope I will keep on being a nice inspiration for those of you that write to me and say I am so. Take care and train to stay happy in mind and body. Where the limit for that goes is up to each one of you, as long as YOU do what YOU feel is right. |
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26 December 2002 Since I last wrote many things have happened. Most important, of course; The Swedish Championships, which took place the 23rd of November. As you might have seen on the news flash I actually went all the way and won my class! The feeling from winning is indescribable. I knew after the pre-judging that I would probably win as both my coach Linda Liedstrand (well known bodybuilder herself) and my friend Carina Isaksson (also well credited bodybuilder who is nowadays competing in fitness and body-fitness) told me I would take it. In a sport like this one you can never be totally sure however, as you can never really know what the judges prefer; mass, symmetry or hardness. I felt very confident though, so when I did my free programme I could really relax and enjoy the show. And when I realised I had won I just did not know what to do: I just kept jumping up and down and afterwards a friend of mine, who was in the audience, told me I must’ve been the happiest winner judging on my behaviour! I used Linda’s old golden bikini in the finals, which she had when she won the Championships, and maybe there is something special with that bikini. I have always been a bit superstitious! She told me afterwards that if she would compete again she would not dare to lend it to me again! Robin Bosic and I competed in pair together and came second. We were happy with that as the ones who won were Fredrik Age (who wan the –90) and Monica Riscoll (who did her comeback after 8 years and won the –57). They are both great bodybuilders, well-merited and extremely good posers so losing to them did not feel so hard. Being so nice as well as Monica is makes me feel really happy for her success, our sport needs more nice, warm-hearted people like her to stay alive. Robin was not ripped enough, which was sad as someone with his symmetry could win without problems otherwise. However, I think he knows now what to work on for next year and I am confident he will be among the three best ones as long as he is hard enough, next time he competes. Robin is also a superb poser so it was a shame the audience never got to see his free programme as he didn’t go to finals in his own class. Well, now you must think that after the Championships I spent a few weeks stuffing myself; well, that did not happen, at least yet. After the competition I celebrated my winning night with Patrik and his sister at her place. We had a really nice dinner and long talk, which was exactly what I needed after a long day. Then we went to the expo together on the Sunday, which was great fun; I met loads of people I know in the business who congratulated me on my success and vice versa. Unfortunately my friend Klaudia in the –57 class didn’t win this year as last, but came third, but I am sure she’ll be back as number one next year. Another nice profile worth mentioning is Christer Norman who came second in the heavyweight. He and his wife are very nice people to whom we talked a lot back-stage as his class was just after mine. I love people that can really show how much in love they are even though they have been together for quite some time, that’s the way I want me and Patrik to be always, and they were so cute together. After the expo I had to keep on dieting as I had a photo shoot for the Swedish bodybuilding magazine: B&K on the Friday the week after. And when that Friday had arrived I had already been asked to be a guest poser at the biggest Swedish bodybuilding competition, commercial wise, Luciapokalen, on the 7th of December. Being a perfectionist I kept on dieting the whole way there and I was actually in better shape then than I was when competing. It was a well arranged competition with a big audience and I felt honoured to be there as a guest poser together with people who had been competing before I had even started training properly, such as Fredrik Age and Monica Riscoll mentioned above, and Helene Hoby and Anders Graneheim. Anders is the best Swedish bodybuilder there is symmetry wise and it is a shame to say that this was to be his last performance as he has decided to dedicate more time to his family now. I do understand him though, being a competing bodybuilder and a father at the same time must be very hard work for both partners. Anders is also a very nice person and will be missed, although I am sure he will continue popping up in the audience the years to come. My good friend Carina was coaching me in Gothenburg and after the show we had a great time out together, even competing people like us enjoy going out every now and then, believe it or not! Then Robin and I had a photo shoot together a few days after the competition, but then, finally, I could start my binge out which has continued all through Christmas so far! I have also spent a few days before Christmas baking constantly so I now have 7 different cookies and at least three different Christmas puddings when people come for coffee. I am planning to keep my weight under more control from now on as I don’t think I will compete the year to come, but during the holidays now I will continue enjoying everything I have not been able to eat! Christmas Eve was nice although I managed to get the stomach flue which is going around here exactly that day, but it went away after 24 hours of fever and everything else that comes with it, leaving it to your imagination. It was a shame though, as we had to leave early from the dinner at Patrik’s parent’s place due to my fever. Well, that’s all so far folks. I hope you have all had a nice holiday when you read this, or are in the middle of it. Do have a Great New Year and watch out for new photos from all the events mentioned above, as I will put photos from them there as time goes by. For now: Take care of each other and Be happy!! |
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30 October 2002 Yet another month and a half done of this hellish diet... It’s really starting to get to me now, all this walking, cycling, training and not eating half of what I feel I would need to actually be satisfied. Apart from Saturdays that is, without this one day a week when I can really binge out I would never get through a diet. It’s strange how much one single day a week can do for your motivation and strength. Co’s whenever I feel fed up I just start thinking about everything I’m gonna eat on Saturday and then I feel better. Some days I even make lists what I must remember to eat so I won’t miss it when the magic day of the week comes. I never manage to eat everything on the list since the mind is much hungrier than the body, but it makes me feel better to do so anyway! However, now I only have less than a month left so the end is coming closer. This is both good and bad though, since I have had neither the time nor the energy to start thinking about the posing part. But then again, I know that when the real panic is near and I have to do it to be ready in time, I will, but just in time, not with a margin! Well, this turned out to be just me talking about my diet, but that’s the way it is at the moment; when you train three hours a day and is always hungry, then it’s hard to focus on other things. I do work still, but at the moment I feel I am doing what is needed of me but not that little bit extra which makes you feel like a really good, complete teacher. I will get back to my normal self again after the competition though, so as long as my colleagues and pupils can handle another three weeks of the tired, less happy me, then I promise to be just as energetic and positive as usual afterwards. I have spent a few days up in Stockholm with Linda who’s coaching me this year again, and she is a great support, above all, mentally for me. Really I know what I need to do by now since I have been in the business for a while, but I need someone to confirm that what I think is right really is right, and who gives me that little push to keep on, and this she does excellently. Also she’s good to give me advice on how to vary my food as I tend to get stuck in the rice and tuna diet if I don’t stop and think about it every now and then. Carina and I have had time for a few lunches lately. I also went to her place for her birthday, which was actually on a Saturday, so I had two pieces of cake; one of the grown-up version and one that was really meant for the kids. I liked the design so much of that one though, with the smarties on top, so I had a bit of that one too. Oupps, there I ended up talking about food again. Then I have popped by Pia Jansson in the nutrition store where she works nowadays a few times to have a chat, and a coffee or two, together. It’s fun when more and more people in the fitness and Bodybuilding genre is moving here to Västerås, it makes me feel less odd and different somehow, even if I always end up being the biggest one though! Pia is really nice and is going to compete in bodybuilding in December. Usually she is into fitness but will now try “the real thing” as I told her. Her boyfriend Alex, a fitness competitor from Norway is also really nice so I hope they will stay here in Västerås and Sweden. Yesterday I was told Fredrik Carlsson is moving up this weekend to Västerås with his girlfriend, and a few months back Möllerström moved here with his girlfriend, so Västerås is growing, both population wise and size wise. On Saturday I’m spending the day in Stockholm with Linda. Then Robin is coming as well, so when I get back to town Patrik will already have picked him up. He’s going to stay here the last week before the qualifier for the Championships. I will coach him then, and with him staying here one week, we will hopefully get a chance to at least briefly plan a posing routing together for the pair-competition at the Championships. Somehow in the middle of everything happening onwards, I am supposed to manage to work full time as well, all the way until the day before competing! I will manage though since there is so little time left now. Well, that’s all for now guys. Whenever you feel you have too much to do, then take a look at this and remember what it is like to be a bodybuilder and a full time working high school teacher at the same time, and I am sure you will feel better. Please keep your fingers crossed for me and send me some energy boosts when time. Over and out. |
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September 2002 August and September so far have been months of work and diet. I simply don't have time do do anything else than walk, work and train in the gym in the evening. I get up at 4.30 to walk an hour before works that starts at 8, then I train after work around 5 and by the time I get back home it's almost 8 and I have to prepare food for next day and go to bed. The weekends are better though. We spent one weekend visiting Anna and Göran, which was nice as always. They are good friends and it's nice to feel we can meet them both to talk about future competitions and trainin, but also to do the totally opposite; discuss everything else but training!! Their little Greta makes me really feel that it is time to retire from this sport soon and have a nice sound family life with babies and friends! Anna is going to compete in the World's strongest Woman competition in Malaysia in two weeks time so she's training really hard now, but in comparison to me she doesn't have to diet and feel like she's starving to death before a competition. Maybe I picked the wrong sport!! Yesterday we went to a Crayfish party with Pia and Ture, good friends of ours, and Pernilla; Patrik's sister joined us which was really fun co's we rarely have time to see eachother so much. It was nice to just eat and talk and feel normal for an evening! Also we had Patrik's family and mine here for cake yesterday as it is Patrik's birthday today. As I can't eat on Sundays everybody met on Saturday instead! So I feel I have been very sociable this weekend! Today I am going to spend the afternoon marking tests, but that's normal for a Sunday. And tomorrow I have to get up at 4.30 again..What a life!! But I have to remind myself that it is me that has chosen this, and this will definately be my last season of competition for quite some time so that thought comforts me when I feel fed up. To the rest of you: Be happy and Enjoy life, live now, co's you never know what'll happen tomorrow. For now I say; over and out. |
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