Figure Competition Diet Tips And Tricks



Posted: Thursday, May 21, 2009

by Jimmy Smith

I consult with a bunch of figure girls and what I hear never ceases to amaze me. I mean I hear everything from under 1000-calorie diets to crazy cardio and diet recommendations. I don’t really get it and it confuses me. So you want to know the raw truth about what a figure competition diet should look like? Here it is.

First you need to decide what you’re willing to do to your body. When I say that I mean that you need to decide that you’re going to focus on your diet for your 16 or 12 weeks. Don’t think that you’re going to cheat here or there and still step on stage with a low level of body fat. Figure competition diets take focused effort.

After you’ve decided that you’re going to focus on your diet, you need to start out on a low carb diet. While keto diets have become the fad recently online, I wouldn’t suggest that you start on a diet that doesn’t include carbs. While you need to minimize your carbohydrate intake to lose bodyfat, you’ll need some energy during your figure competition diet and carbs will provide that energy. Small amounts of carbohydrates will not make you fat.

So use a timed carbohydrates intake and eat your carbs when you wake up and post workout. Your breakfast carbs should come from oatmeal or whole wheat toast and you’re post workout carbs, depending on what bodypart you’re training, should consist of fast carbohydrates and possibly fibrous carbohydrates.

Next, you need to understand that you have to have protein with every meal. Not only are your calories low so the chances of your body eating up muscle tissue for energy is great. Well make sure that you have a adequate amount of protein in your diet or else you’ll lose muscle mass. Protein is really the only muscle sparing nutrition that we have.

The last thing that you need to include in your figure competition diet is essential fats. You need some fat in your diet or else your body will hold onto your current level of body fat for energy. So by including healthy fats like omega-3 fish oils, GLA, CLA as well as food sources like almonds, walnuts, macadamia nuts and other healthy fats, you’ll actually burn more calories. These fats not only helpful to balance your hormones but they also will give you sustainable energy that you may not have when your carbohydrates are low.

That’s a general outline of how you set up your figure competition diet.
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