Gents, please note that that way of eating was not done on purpose. By that I mean I did not wake up one morning thinking, yeh man, I want to break the world record for maximum calorie consumption or anything ridiculous like that. To be frank with you, when it came to nutrition back then, the only word I understood was: Food!
That way of eating (and I do admit now) that it was extremely different from the norm, did only last about 3-4 months. I was basically eating the way I felt, meaning I did not do it based on some conscious reason of (say) like bodybuilders do today of wanting to increase their protein, calories, or whatever. I simply woke up at 7am sharp for 4 months, and walked over to the cafeteria, where it all began.
I never felt uncomfortable in any way despite constantly been asked by the other weightlifters there to be careful lest I get fat. But fat was not part of my physical vocabulary for those 3-4 months.
I was training hard, but I wouldn't say harder than the rest of the weightlifting squad.
The moral of the story in all of this and perhaps why I shared this info with the forum to begin with, was to tell it like it is/was without any make-up or glossing over the way magazines do today... insulting our intelligence in their attempt in being politically correct. And the second reason I shared it with the forum was to basically say, listen to your body and give it what it’s asking for. I realise that one has to be more careful in bodybuilding due to the possibility of gaining fat etc. So had I gained fat around my waist or anywhere else for that matter back then, I’m sure I would have done something about it, but that was never the case. So be in tune with your own body is my message and don’t believe everything that you read, especially when it looks too good or too easy to be true.
When these four months had passed, I went back to normal eating as if nothing had happened. Thank God I was not afraid of listening to my body, and in a way, thank God I didn’t know anything about nutrition either… or I would have really given myself an unnecessary anxiety attack over the whole thing
Fadi.
