06/24/2025
💥“Can you voluntarily be the hungriest you’ve ever been, and keep pushing harder?”💥
People say to me all the time “I could never compete because I like food too much.”
It’s definitely not for the faint of heart. Being hungry is something that can break a lot of people. You also can never truly prepare yourself for what that’s like until you are in it. The best thing you can do here is:
➡️Make sure you are mentally ready for this. And by that I mean, are you mature enough to remember that this whole thing is a CHOICE. Therefore, you have no grounds to constantly complain about hunger, that you “can’t have X, Y, Z” foods, or that you chastise others around you for eating their regular foods. This is a surefire way to kill your prep and all of the great challenges and growth that can happen from this process.
➡️Make sure you have a good relationship with food and yourself. Are you competing to get attention? Seeking validation for how your body looks? Doing it because others tell you you should? Thinking it’ll “help” with your food habits or weight loss? If any of these are the case, you need to re-evaluate your WHY.
➡️Ask yourself if you can give up certain things throughout the prep process. Alcohol, treats, nights out late, missing meals, etc. Of course, this doesn’t mean to be a hermit and talk to nobody, but can you still live your day-to-day, with all sorts of temptation and people around you who don’t know your situation or what your goals are, and continue to push forward?
Competing isn’t about a weight-loss competition or to heal some sort of broken part of you. It is intense, unforgiving, and will reveal things about yourself you never knew existed (good and bad). It can be the greatest challenge of your life or it can swallow you whole. It just depends on if you know what you’re getting into at the start.
I wanna know what your favorite challenge has been with bodybuilding, if you compete! Comment below 👇 and let’s hear it!
