 on everybody. It's been a while guys. I'm back in Alice Springs now, well and truly, well and truly back at work. I had an awesome time in New Zealand four weeks and culminated in my first ever stage appearance which was just done on a whim you know just to get the monkey off my back. I decided to stay an extra week in New Zealand to allow myself to compete. Definitely got the monkey off my back. Had an awesome time. It was nerve racking. It was exciting. I rubbed shoulders with people who I'd always wanted to rub shoulders with. I finally got a little bit of knowledge, a little bit of experience, backstage experience which is invaluable for upcoming shows so really glad I did it. But now as the title suggests, yeah it's 10 days out from my show that I originally from the start of this series planned on doing which is the WBFF Australia on the Gold Coast 2015 October 17th. So this little series is going to be a continuation on from the last Road to the Stage series but this one is going to start from today. We're 10 days out doing a little bit of travel. I'm going to Melbourne on the way. I'm staying in the Gold Coast for three nights. So yeah I'm going to take you guys along again for the ride which I can't wait for but basically yeah it's it's what is it Tuesday morning. I compete on Saturday so I've cut tyres with the coach. You know I got the coach in the first place because I needed motivation. I needed to be kept you know kept accountable and that's exactly what he did for me. He didn't I didn't learn anything to be honest with you. He's he's got flexible dieting principles which I follow and he basically just gave me a meal plan with macros which I haven't followed from the start. The only two things I've followed from the start that's allowed me to keep consistent with the diet is protein and calories. You stay above a certain well you stay at a certain protein amount as well as training hard you're going to maintain your muscle. You stay under a certain calories amount as well as hitting some cardio. You're going to lose the fat so I've been doing both of those things. Carbs and fats have been up and down but what I will say is that yesterday I did a big carb load, refeed, cheat meal, cheat day whatever you want to call it. Basically I had a bit of a binge and yesterday is going to be the last of that so this is the real grind now. So it's 10 days out I've had a carb load my leptin levels will be high so basically from here on out I'm going low carb so I've got a little plan for the next three to four days I'm going low carb so we're going a hundred grams or less. I'm going to see how my body responds to that as far as weight goes because right now I'm actually just about to arrive to the gym and weigh myself because we're going to go off that for the future for these next 10 days so this is probably going to be the highest I weigh in which sucks. I really don't want to do it but it's got to be done to measure the progress over the next few days so I wouldn't be surprised if in three days time I'll be you know a good a good 3kg lighter than what I am now so we'll see. I'm going to be weighing myself at the same time every day in the morning no food no water so without further ado let's go do that I'll just take one sip. So as I was saying did the carb load yesterday and that is most definitely going to be the most I weigh in the next 10 days. I was actually hoping for under 90 so 90.7 kgs I'm feeling full right now as expected but these next 10 days aren't going to be easy at all I don't think on one day even just one day I've been on I've been under a hundred grams of carbs I haven't been able to do it so it's come down to this we're 10 days out after the show there's gonna be no more shows it's all done so I definitely want to put my best foot forward I want to bring the best physique possible I want to have fun and but I want to do well because I didn't do well on the last comp but hey I was never going to as I was still three weeks out from my my peak physique date which is October 17th on the Gold Coast we're getting it can't wait so that is a little introduction it's 10 days out I'll hit well I'll be back with you later on tonight with what I plan on doing I think today's actually gonna be a rest day I've really really smashed the weights the last week you know hit everything twice two sessions a day cardio every day it's really starting to take a toll so that's why I decided to do one last carb load yesterday and we're gonna ride it out now so exciting times ahead guys