Post-Diet Relapse and Physiological Urges

Yes, I definitely don't think people have an understanding of how difficult contest practice for bodybuilding, just like we spoke about when we were talking about category one people wanting to get leaner. but also because it

so difficult. There are very few people who make it to the actual contest. And you won't hear about that on social media because they're not there. You only hear about the people who win or at least maybe to the contest. And also there are very few people who are able to regain a sustainable amount of body fat without overshooting even their starting point at the start of the diet. Because at that point, your physiology is basically screaming for you to put some body fat back on. and most people aren't able as you were saying earlier to tune that off and gradually increase how much they're eating and letting their body fat come back on most people give in to those urges because it's just physiology it's natural there's nothing wrong it doesn't make them bad people or incompetent or lacking willpower they are just doing what their body's asking desperately asking them to do they no longer have the goal of contest shape so they've got no rails to keep to stay behind and they end up regaining a lot of body fat very quickly and then they either disappear off of social media and you're like what happened to that bodybuilder or um they keep posting throwback thursday pictures just like you said the the people at the top the people at the top are they've done it long enough where they can actually do it right they can do a contest they know how to do it right so they're not trying they're not forcing it. They're not rushing it. And then they can ease out of it. But a lot of people at the amateur level will do that. They won't time it correctly. They'll rush it. They won't give them enough time to do it. They'll have to starve themselves at the end. They're doing crazy stuff to try to get the last little bit off. And then they get on stage, they get off, they have their first free meal in the last months, and then they can't stop eating. They just start eating and they just can't stop. So now if we look at gen pop, gen pop can go through the same thing, but the thing that most of them won't get to the levels of leanness, but the biology is the same. If you crash diet and you don't have the program written correctly and you don't have an exit strategy, most likely your exit strategy is going to be turning your mouth into a food vacuum cleaner and not being able to shut it off. And then you're like, oh, I shouldn't have eaten that. And then you do it again. Oh, shouldn't eat but it's your brain making you do it it's not your fault right so it's uh there's no there's no shame in this there shouldn't be shame or guilt it's it's a normal biological thing your brain will make you do things that you don't want to do there's like there's a name for it you're hangry you know it's like you get hangry you reach for a snickers bar or 50 of them you know and then And once you get on that roller coaster, it's really difficult to get off. And then the shame that you feel and the guilt that you feel then re like integrates a negative feedback loop or a negative habit loop that then makes you keep doing it. It kind of like you kind of just your brain kind of said fuck it I got food now Let go And you just keep going And then you got it You got to you got to have a coming to Jesus talk or whoever you worship you got to have a talk with them and go all right okay I got to stop and I have to get back on track. It's like the best thing for gym pop, a lot of cases is what I said earlier, is just do the slow and steady, slow and steady route. It's boring, it takes longer, but it's way more sustainable and it's easier to prevent relapse because relapsing is the hardest part.