Hey guys. And welcome to the Moms and Mysteries podcast, a true crime podcast featuring myself, Mandy, and my dear friend Melissa.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Mandy. How are you?

I am feeling good. We've turned over a new leaf. We are in November.

November. I like November, Mostly because I like food. And I feel that November comes with a lot of opportunities to eat.

It really does. But Mandy, more importantly, you have something very exciting going on this weekend that I feel like we've talked about on Patreon some.

But you may have mentioned it on here. but if not, I don't care.

Mention it.

Mention it at all.

This weekend, actually tomorrow, we're recording on a Friday, very early in the morning, by the way, unusual for us.

But I will be competing in a bodybuilding competition.

Again, if you've listened to the show for a while, you might be like, didn't you do that before?

And yes, I did. It's been over two years, though. And so, yeah, so we've been, when I say we, I mean me and my coach, who I absolutely would not be able to do anything without. I literally, I was telling you this morning, I was waiting for him to tell me what to eat today before I could get down and record. Like at this point, I'm just relying on him to be your brain, to be my brain and get me through this competition. But we've been working really hard, like, for the last two years.

And this is the first time I will be doing a competition with him as my coach. So both of us are

really excited to kind of see how it goes. Yeah, I've been working

really hard. As you know, I mean, not to like toot my own horn or pat my own back, but it's hard.

If I had to do like two days of what you're doing, you would not hear the end of it. I would,

I would literally get a billboard and be like, feel bad for me. Listen to what I ate today. Yeah, I mean, obviously I chose it. I feel like if anyone's listening and has known someone who has ever done, you know, a competition like that or if you do things like that yourself, then, you know, you know, there's a lot to it. It's kind of a hobby for me, but it's also just kind of a passion at this point. I feel like it

kind of has to be. So yeah, I am very excited. I've been working on, I've been technically on

contest prep where we started getting ready for this since May. And I was supposed to compete two

weeks ago, but the hurricane came through and devastated the very area that I was

supposed to compete in, St. Pete. And so I had to, at the last minute, decide to continue my dieting

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