{"id":4506,"date":"2014-04-18T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T02:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2014-04-19T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T12:00:12","slug":"struggling-this-week-but-i-have-good-friendsfans-tuf-housefood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/2014\/04\/18\/struggling-this-week-but-i-have-good-friendsfans-tuf-housefood\/","title":{"rendered":"struggling this week, but I have good friends&#038;fans. TUF house&#038;food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The week started out awesome!<\/p>\n<p>Then I pulled a muscle and it&#8217;s excruciatingly painful.  I thought it was just a tight muscle knot, but it hurts to move at all.  Even pushing myself up from a position laying down. x_x I didn&#8217;t even try to train yesterday, and was super bummed that I missed sparring.  I wanted to try out my new move I learned in mitts! ;_;<\/p>\n<p>So, determined to have a good day, I did something I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for a few weeks: find the TUF house.  Despite driving there every day for 6 weeks, I wasn&#8217;t familiar enough with Vegas to know the roads.  <\/p>\n<p>Then at Tuff-N-Uff, a couple who were fans came up to me and said, &#8220;Your house was right next to ours!  We saw you taking jogs and we had to be quiet when the crew was filming!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was like, &#8220;&#8230;..WHERE DO YOU LIVE?!&#8221;  haha SO I took a drive there, and omg it&#8217;s close to where I live now!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/TUF-house1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/TUF-house1.jpg\" alt=\"TUF house1\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4507\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The feeling I got was so weird.  It was like visiting an old friend, or an old hometown.  TUF 18 feels like a lifetime ago, and it has been literally a year since I went to tryouts!  I drove past the house like 4 times, and after leaving, I felt like I drove across the world.  Man, I miss living there!  It was such an intense experience.  It totally changed my life.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/TUF-house-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/TUF-house-2.jpg\" alt=\"TUF house 2\" width=\"367\" height=\"416\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I tried looking for tanktops at the Outlett mall, but the cheap store went out of business. ~_~ I&#8217;m VERY specific about tank tops.  They can&#8217;t be too clingy on the chest, can&#8217;t show my bra straps at all, can&#8217;t be too tight under my arms, can&#8217;t be low cut at all&#8230;.. impossible, right?  I can never find what I want.  I found one in IZOD, and they were $25, but I bought one anyway, because I FINALLY found one.<\/p>\n<p>Taught the kids class&#8230;just barely because I couldn&#8217;t really move. ._. So bummed out.  Jake Steckel (my chiropractor) saw me TWICE, once in the morning, and once in the evening, and it helped me a bit. But it still sucks. My body sucks.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been having indigestion ALL WEEK, something horrible. I&#8217;m afraid to eat ANYTHING because I suffer so much.  ALL FREAKING WEEK constantly.  \ud83d\ude41  I can&#8217;t figure out what&#8217;s wrong. I&#8217;ve been trying to do process of elimination for various foods and stuff. I&#8217;ve cut out soo much stuff. And the stuff I&#8217;m eating now, I&#8217;ve eaten with no problems in the past, so WTF IS WRONG WITH ME. I hate my body. <\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t tell me to go to the doctor because I DO NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE despite applying for it like two months agoooooooooooooooooooo damnit!<\/p>\n<p>I should be more positive. :\/  <\/p>\n<p>Today I was productive and wrote an article for my sponsor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.intimidationclothing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.intimidationclothing.com\/<\/a>.  It&#8217;ll be published later, I guess.  I wanted to try going to team practice, but even after warming up, my back had sharp stabbing pain. wtfffff  Mike Pyle taught class, too.  I WANT TO LEARNnnnnnnn. ug<\/p>\n<p>So I ate my lunch, veggies, English muffin, and Mom&#8217;s meatloaf. And I didn&#8217;t get indigestion. \ud83d\ude00  Then my buddy Bootsy was free, so he took me to his fav fast food mexican place in a gas station, and it was actually good. I had already eaten my carefully prepared portions, so I just got something small.  He bought me a baby taco! SO CUTE, right? \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/baby-taco.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/baby-taco.jpg\" alt=\"baby taco\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he got this meat cheese mix on french fries?! LOL<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/french-fries-mix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/french-fries-mix.jpg\" alt=\"french fries mix\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4510\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to try it, but I can&#8217;t&#8230;.and my weight isn&#8217;t going down as fast as I want&#8230;.OKAY MUST BE POSITIVE! <\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my buddy Patrick, who sent me a gift box with a few DVDs, a gift card, and SOCKS! \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/snoopy-socks-from-patrick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/snoopy-socks-from-patrick.jpg\" alt=\"snoopy socks from patrick\" width=\"367\" height=\"490\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have good, good, thoughtful friends.  And fans on Twitter and Facebook who wish me well when I make a gloomy post.  You guys  are a blessing and really cheer me up and remind me to be positive. \ud83d\ude42 Love you guys!<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00 \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>So a few months ago, this big guy came into our gym carrying the same UFC bag as me.  Josh Clark, the &#8220;Hillbilly Heartthrob.&#8221;  I had my suspicions&#8230;.and then we find out he was on TUF! \ud83d\ude00  He got into the house!  That&#8217;s all we can say \ud83d\ude00  So now I want to help promote him because he&#8217;s super friendly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1345.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1345.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1345\" width=\"745\" height=\"426\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4512\" srcset=\"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1345.jpg 745w, http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/IMG_1345-632x361.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow him on twitter! @joshclarkmma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week started out awesome! Then I pulled a muscle and it&#8217;s excruciatingly painful. I thought it was just a tight muscle knot, but it hurts to move at all. Even pushing myself up from a position laying down. x_x I didn&#8217;t even try to train yesterday, and was super bummed that I missed sparring.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-every-day","category-friends","category-5","category-9","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roxannemodafferi.net\/RBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}