The Improper Figure Diet
Research shows that the typical bodybuilding diet is fairly healthy (except for the reduced calories), if followed using a wide enough variety of vegetables. You would think that with such intense dieting that the body would be lacking multiple vitamins and minerals… although everyone is different, large deficiencies in vitamins and minerals is uncommon.
Problems: The problems start when you go on a diet that is too restrictive and limited In food selections. Your choices are already limited, therefore any further limiting of food can be detriments to your health. I just encountered this a few weeks ago when a competitor told me of a dangerous diet she was on. Hair falling out, fainting, diarrhea are just a few of the issues that comes with following diets that are too extreme and limited:
- Diet where you are limited to eating only one or two foods a day
- Programs that require you to drink the majority of your food in the form of protein powder or other powdered supplements.
- Diets that try to manipulate water or cause dehydration
- Programs that require tons of supplements (watch out for supplements ads in magazines and online) instead of food.
- Diets that require you to eat fewer meals per day as opposed to more (the more meals you eat – the more fat you will lose).
- Diets containing mostly foods of little nutritional value such as lettuce, crackers etc.
Dieting the right way before a show will insure that you are ready to fully recover and build muscle in the off-season (if that’s what you need to do)… otherwise it may take months for you to fully recover from a bad diet. The big misconception is that you have to do something extreme with dieting to get ready for a show. The truth is that extreme dieting is the quickest way to derail your competition goals.
Solution: Click Here to Discover 31 safe and healthy Figure Prep Diets.
