Competitors go through a variety of feelings while dieting and training for a Competition!
After the first few weeks the feeling of “depravation ” is coming in!!!
Competition diets are very restricted of alcohol, sugar, heavy fats and starches !
There are carbohydrates involved, but they are all good old boring plain clean foods….
The use of food for emotional feelings is completely out!!!
In the end there is no cheating allowed at all and eating has to be 100% on dot!
Timing , amounts, ratio, water intake, supplementation……
As your body fat goes down a woman will create less estrogen and more testosterone !
That just happens naturally in your body!!!
As a woman we are producing estrogen not only in our ovaries but also in our fatty tissue 🙂
A woman’s brain works on estrogen ….
Ever wonder why women go crazy once entering menopause?
Estrogen deprivation !!!
And even though a Competition Woman does not enter menopause, she is still going through estrogen deprivation …..
Emotional ups and downs, crying a lot without reason, feeling sluggish and depressed are typical symptoms!!!
So what can you do about it?
Well, you can not take estrogen if you don’t want to add body fat!
But you can mentally prepare yourself and your family that this is what will happen during the last Quater of your journey!
Try to keep a positive mind set.
Surround yourself with positive friends.
Play up beat music …..
Focus on the date set of your goal and the changes you made in your body!
Design a dinner date in your head once Competition is over!
But even just by knowing that this will be only temporarily will help you focus on bigger and better things!
Just be prepared…