So, the journey begins!

[George Cantstandya]

(07-08-2018, 06:46 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: I hear ya, man.  Typically, after competing in a show, I'll be completely famished.  For some reason, I just can't compete well with food in my gut.  So, usually I'll head to the best recommended Mexican Restaurant and wolf down two complete dinners, along with chips, salsa, salsa picosa, and cheese dip, and wash it all down with 1-2 pitchers of Dos Equis.

About 45 minutes later, they just roll me toward the nearest restroom, where I take up residence for the next half hour...

I can relate to that sort of.  I was on the wrestling team in high school and was one of those taller lanky guys that had to do a lot of fasting to get down to a weight class I could compete in.  Early on as soon as I weighed in I would gorge on food because I was famished but I learned that didn't work out so well as in vomiting all over the mat in the middle of a match.  So I would nibble on lighter snacks, drink honey mixed with water shortly before my match for quick but brief energy, compete and then gorge on food.  Of course if it was a tournament and I made it to the next day where I would have to weigh in again I was taking measures to lose all the food weight I had inhaled.  I'll spare the details. Wash and repeat.  I don't even want to know what affects that might of had on my body and health as developing teenager.  That was kind of the standard back then though with a lot of wrestlers.  I don't know if it is still that way.