Many people on this site either diet for competitions, photoshoots or just for a special occasion.
I think that it is nessesary to prepare anyone who is dieting for the first time for the after effects or post dieting blahs.
So everyone please tell your story and how you cope with the weight gain etc.
Here is my story:
I have been competing now for two years and in those two years i have dieted/competed 7 times. The after effects of dieting have somewhat changed but as many i still struggle to let me body rest and go up to a normal bf % .
After my first competiton i contracted a donut eating disorder and knew that when the women at the drive through knew my order before i even told her. I gained 10lbs over a 1 month period and ate everything that i could get my hands on.
My second competition was done on because i felt i needed to have a goal to get "lean" again. I power dieted for 3 weeks and although i came in about 2%bf higher than my first competition i was alot fuller. After this competition summer was definately over and so the after effects werent as drastic because i had pretty much eaten everything in sight after comp #1.
This year my first competition was in March. I took a very different approach to dieting with weekly cheats up until 3 weeks out and dairy right up until the week before. I came in just as lean as the previous year and could definately notice some big improvements in overall muscle gains. After this comp. i went absolutely balistic and gained 15lbs in one week. My tummy blew up and i looked like i was 6months pregnant and it took a long time before i could make it go down. This was mentally hard because i had started dieting in January and now April had come and i only had 4 weeks to prepare for the Nationals.
For the nationals i tried to carb cyle, it worked REALLY well however i got addicted to the No Carb days (no veggies either) and so my tummy shrank to the size of a pea. I took one week off from comp. one and had to lose that 15lbs i gained and this diet and training definately worked. I went from 18% to 11% in 4 weeks. I got up on stage proud of my accomplishments and that i actually lasted 7 days (of pure HELL) of NO CARBS...i mean nothing. After the Nationals i gained 14lbs in 4 days
So i started to take more supplements for comp. #3 of the season so that i could once again get down to 10%bf. The diet went well and the training was a friggin killer, frequent
episodes but i loved it. Blah blah blah and then after that comp. i knew it was time to give myself a rest. However it wasnt for long that i created another opportunity to diet again.
3 weeks later i started dieting AGAIN. Training was terribly hard and my head was not in the right place. I frequently cheated and knew that my body had enough only i longed to feel that lean dieting high i had only weeks ago. I knew that my body needed a break but i had to just do one more shoot. I ran into some major health problems like nervous system delays, bleeding from my ears (yes i know that sounds bad) and EXTREME high blood pressure. Even though these things came up i still kept on going. Determined= maybe, Addicted= yes. Everything went well and i came in happy with my condition but you could tell that i was spent.
So that was only 1 week ago and i pretty much havent stopped eating. My head tells me to stop and my tummy is full. I am up 8lbs and feel like i need to diet again. Everytime i come off a diet i know that i need to slowly increase calories and introduce more foods, but comeon that is never what happens. Life is piling up on me now and i have this urge to once again DIET. Although i know that dieting again isnt even an option cause my body wont let me, i sit here eating and eating. You look at yourself in the mirror and think "how does it take so many effin weeks to take all this shit off your body and in 4 days it all comes back".
I wanted to share this with you so that you kinda get an idea about what goes through your head after a show/diet/shoot. Some may not feel like this and others may be able to continue to eat well, however some of us do experience depression and binge eating.
xox
Jenny
I think that it is nessesary to prepare anyone who is dieting for the first time for the after effects or post dieting blahs.
So everyone please tell your story and how you cope with the weight gain etc.
Here is my story:
I have been competing now for two years and in those two years i have dieted/competed 7 times. The after effects of dieting have somewhat changed but as many i still struggle to let me body rest and go up to a normal bf % .
After my first competiton i contracted a donut eating disorder and knew that when the women at the drive through knew my order before i even told her. I gained 10lbs over a 1 month period and ate everything that i could get my hands on.
My second competition was done on because i felt i needed to have a goal to get "lean" again. I power dieted for 3 weeks and although i came in about 2%bf higher than my first competition i was alot fuller. After this competition summer was definately over and so the after effects werent as drastic because i had pretty much eaten everything in sight after comp #1.
This year my first competition was in March. I took a very different approach to dieting with weekly cheats up until 3 weeks out and dairy right up until the week before. I came in just as lean as the previous year and could definately notice some big improvements in overall muscle gains. After this comp. i went absolutely balistic and gained 15lbs in one week. My tummy blew up and i looked like i was 6months pregnant and it took a long time before i could make it go down. This was mentally hard because i had started dieting in January and now April had come and i only had 4 weeks to prepare for the Nationals.
For the nationals i tried to carb cyle, it worked REALLY well however i got addicted to the No Carb days (no veggies either) and so my tummy shrank to the size of a pea. I took one week off from comp. one and had to lose that 15lbs i gained and this diet and training definately worked. I went from 18% to 11% in 4 weeks. I got up on stage proud of my accomplishments and that i actually lasted 7 days (of pure HELL) of NO CARBS...i mean nothing. After the Nationals i gained 14lbs in 4 days
So i started to take more supplements for comp. #3 of the season so that i could once again get down to 10%bf. The diet went well and the training was a friggin killer, frequent
episodes but i loved it. Blah blah blah and then after that comp. i knew it was time to give myself a rest. However it wasnt for long that i created another opportunity to diet again.3 weeks later i started dieting AGAIN. Training was terribly hard and my head was not in the right place. I frequently cheated and knew that my body had enough only i longed to feel that lean dieting high i had only weeks ago. I knew that my body needed a break but i had to just do one more shoot. I ran into some major health problems like nervous system delays, bleeding from my ears (yes i know that sounds bad) and EXTREME high blood pressure. Even though these things came up i still kept on going. Determined= maybe, Addicted= yes. Everything went well and i came in happy with my condition but you could tell that i was spent.
So that was only 1 week ago and i pretty much havent stopped eating. My head tells me to stop and my tummy is full. I am up 8lbs and feel like i need to diet again. Everytime i come off a diet i know that i need to slowly increase calories and introduce more foods, but comeon that is never what happens. Life is piling up on me now and i have this urge to once again DIET. Although i know that dieting again isnt even an option cause my body wont let me, i sit here eating and eating. You look at yourself in the mirror and think "how does it take so many effin weeks to take all this shit off your body and in 4 days it all comes back".
I wanted to share this with you so that you kinda get an idea about what goes through your head after a show/diet/shoot. Some may not feel like this and others may be able to continue to eat well, however some of us do experience depression and binge eating.
xox
Jenny
to my good friend 
I am feeling kinda down right now and you are a dear I miss darren and my friends are irritating me right now, it feels like they keep forgetting me
