A figure competitor’s path

I should be eating right now. Why you ask? Because I want to. Isn’t that why most people eat? because they want to? But not when you’re training for a figure show.

 A friend of mine recently told me that anyone can work out, but it’s the diet that makes a figure competitor. Now I believe him.  

Because when you’re training for a show, any show, bodybuilding, figure, the diet is what makes the difference. You train all off-season long to build and sculpt the perfect shape, but if you don’t diet right then it’s all lost. Every bit of hard work you put into it is for nothing. So you diet. And dieting sucks. It’s true. Nobody wants to diet. Especially when there’s chocolate cake in the lunchroom and chips on the counter.  

Instead I live and die by Crystal Lite and water and gum in between meals. And I clock watch so that when the clock ticks the 2 hours after one meal, I can finally eat my next one. Sometimes I fond myself wanting to eat even when I am not famished hungry. Just for something to do while I am sitting at my desk.

Because I miss the smooth creaminess of chocolate and the crunchy, saltiness of a Dorito. And oooh the coldness of ice cream. Why am I writing this? Because I know you’re all out there doing the same thing and going through the same cravings. Plus, if I keep myself busy writing, I forget that I want to snack.

And since you’re all out there with me, I know that even as badly as I want to cheat I won’t because maybe I will be on stage next to you and if I’m the one that cheated and you didn’t then that could be the make or break over first place and second.

So cheers to Crystal Lite and celery and gum everyone. 10 weeks to go!

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