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 By: AnimalPak Brothers, we've all been there. We've all got our own stories to tell. We all know dieting f*cking sucks. Here are a couple of observations from the Animal crew:
One hour of cardio, 90 minutes of weights, baked chicken breast, steamed green beans, and a headache to wash it down. All before 10 a.m. Damn, dieting sucks.
The dreams man... the f*cking dreams. I could do cardio all damn day, no problem, but as soon as I start eating ultra clean with restricted calories, the dreams begin.
Vivid dreams of every sugary, fattening food under the sun. I wake up positive that I cheated on my diet while I slept.
When I take some of those calories away to make weight, it makes the power unsure and in some of the more extreme cases, made contests lifts very heavy.
You hunger for certain rewards that you enjoy and dieting does not allow you those rewards. Dieting just sucks period. No reason, it just ain't fun.
Diet is a four letter word.
All junk food must be kept out of reach. Most individuals who haven't truly committed to dieting will give in to these cravings, but the true warriors overcome and look beyond the temptation and keep their goals in mind to prevent themselves from faltering.
Also, I'm really moody the last few weeks. I usually try to be a nice guy but when I'm dialing in for a show, its best just to leave me alone unless I talk to you first.
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Okay, you meet a great girl and you want to take her to a nice restaurant. Then you realize that you are counting calories, you have a schedule of meals, workouts & a bedtime. You have a f*cking curfew! It's like you can't spontaneously go out and enjoy yourself. You try to make the best of the situation and you make plans, but the lack of options while going out to dinner are very slim.
  Click To Enlarge.You can't go out and have a nice bottle of wine, dessert and then wake up the next morning next to her. If you do stay the night with her you have to set your alarm on your cell phone to 5am and get back to your house for your morning cardio. Dieting sucks because it f*cks up your dating life.
Once under the 8 percent or so body fat level, this turns on metabolic emergency switches that makes the physiology and psychology go into a type of "eat or die" state of being. Even when following the best fat reduction diet, once your body fat levels reach this "low warning zone level" you spend day and night fighting off thoughts of eating and the resisting the physical drive to get up and eat; which is a torturous state of being. The lower your body fat levels go, the more torturous it is. I can still remember the nights during my wrestling career when I woke up and raided the refrigerator, usually the night before a match.
After my last wrestling match almost 3 decades ago I never wanted to do extreme dieting like that again, one reason why I But, now at 48 even with eating a healthy diet and daily exercise, keeping body fat levels down is getting harder, especially if I want to get and stay under 9% body fat. Now when I need to seasonally reduce body fat levels, I use my expertise to follow a body fat reduction diet that sucks less, but it still sucks.
Constant dieting is boring and can actually change ones attitude completely, to where they are uptight and judgmental of what everyone else is eating. Dieting can also be rewardingly enjoyable (depending on the dieter's motivation levels and the type of shape they are in). For many bodybuilders, feelings of hunger equate with physical triumph as they edge closer to achieving sublime conditioning. I think dieting is important to some extent (an 8-12 week period once a year for instance). However, trying to maintain a high level of conditioning over the long term, through dieting, can be the ultimate act of deprivation - depending on how disciplined one is. Eating well year-round, and staying within striking distance of competition shape, is a way better alternative to staying on a strict diet. This way, dieting can be done over a shorter period come pre-contest time.
I love to ogle the dessert trays, wine list, pastry cases and even the cheese isle at the grocery store! It must be some sort of missed placed torture!
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So this sets us up for more severe cravings that adds stress on top of being so strict with yourself and trying to exercise in an energy reduced state. Also, when we are eating a hypocaloric diet, it seems like we lack energy for everyday things that can be very frustrating at times. Finally the last thing that I think sucks about dieting that comes after the diet, is getting used to eating normally again and seeing your bodyfat go up. A lot of people have trouble after getting so lean and getting into contest shape learning that they can't stay this way year round and giving up their hard earned leanness.
Everyone really knows what they shouldn't eat, but they do it anyway. So the key is motivation, not to go on some weird starvation diet, but to eat good, nutrient-dense foods!
All that depriving of myself of the foods I want to eat for one lousy inch off my waist...screw dieting! Eat what you want and just do more cardio...Food makes the body good!
You're hungry all the time and you're eating constantly, it just doesn't add up. But, it really doesn't bother me to diet, because I know I'm going to look HOT when I'm done!
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I had to keep it stocked with low calorie vegetables, like heads of lettuce and pounds of fresh broccoli, which I ate plenty of during the day, but especially needed on hand at night to make those mid-night binges less calorie damaging.
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