 what's up I can see you now how are we what is going on and welcome back to another video welcome back to another post competition prep question and answer type video today's video I'm going to discuss the stupidest thing I did whilst on on prep whilst on my competition bodybuilding diet prep my name is Jacob McDonald I began competition prep on April the 13th 2020 effectively didn't get serious about it until June July and ended up competing once at the end of August and once at the end of October today's date is November the 10th and we're here to discuss some things so leading into my second show I had to maintain a five percent body fat condition from yeah the end of August to the end of October which is two months of maintaining a five percent body fat condition mentally that will fuck you honestly it's pretty much like torture it's all good for a couple of weeks then you get halfway through and then you like two weeks to go then you like one week to go and you are just over it I was absolutely over it guys so I started doing some stupid shit some real stupid shit what you might call a bit of self self sabotage that's what my coach called it and it was self sabotage and that is basically a brain fuck you know what I mean that is not what you want to be doing but sometimes your brain tells you that that's the right thing to do which is absolutely insane for someone to try and understand but I'm gonna try and I'm gonna try and break it down for you so coming up to the last week I was cheating on my diet a lot but then I'd wake up the next morning and do cardio and try and you know bring it back what that meant that is I was literally just maintaining I was not making any progress so that sucked but what happened was I got to about two weeks out and I was feeling so good I felt like I've done a week's worth of good dieting I was making progress I was as lean as I'd ever been and we had two weeks to go still I felt too good I felt too good I felt way too content after that and I ended up you know beginning a week worth of of real yo-yo dieting this is two weeks out from my show so I wasn't putting on any body fat but I was consuming way too many calories and then on top of that having to clean it up with way too much cardio and this is just through restricting yourself for so long and and a bit of self-sabotage you know I started thinking things like I'm never gonna win what's the point what's the point bro the point is this is your journey this is your transformation this is for you you don't do this for anyone else but these are things that fuck man I forgot so yeah that was a week of of pretty pretty shitty dieting so I found myself a week later which is one week out from the show now in worse condition than I did at two weeks out so I went and and binged one last time I thought fuck man alright I said to myself right I'm gonna have to do some crazy shit this last week as far as carb depletion I'm gonna have to do that anyway fuck it I'm gonna have another big meal and that's what I did and it just put me back further it put me back fucking further so on the Saturday I think I had a massive meal on the Sunday I cleaned it up a bit on the Monday I saw my coach Steve and I was looking watery as fuck you know this was a point where I was lean enough to see some water retention and he said that he could see it I could see it and there's only one thing we can do from here which is deplete cup carbohydrates completely during peak week which is something I hadn't done because I needed to but I did need to and it's only because I cheated on my fucking diet and I wasn't ready early you know what I mean silly stuff man silly stuff so I guess you could include going zero carbohydrates for the whole entire last week as stupid but I mean some people have to do that but they didn't put themselves in that position through not being able to stick to their diet they've put themselves in that position through their body being a type of body that does not you know perform well with carbohydrates so my body loves carbs I need carbs carbs seem to process through my system to very easily but not when I take in too many we can all take in too many carbohydrates guys and that's what I fucking did I went five days Monday to Friday completely low carb no car came in on Friday for my final session with my coach and he was really pleased and I was really pleased things were looking good all that I had to do from there was to slowly take in carbohydrates slowly that's all I had to do you think I could do that no no it had been too long my mind was fucked by this point and so as soon as I took after that five days of carb depletion as soon as I took my first taste of oats or banana or whatever it was I couldn't stop man I could not stop it was going through it was literally like not even it was not touching the sides I'd eat a cup of oatmeal and it wouldn't touch the sides I'd eat another cup wouldn't touch the sides I ended up having I ended up having 900 grams of carbs within about six hours on that Friday when I'd aimed to have probably probably about 300 to be fair I just simply could not stop I could not stop and it was terrible and so at the end of that night I'd eat 900 grams of carbs the day before the show you know not saying that it did any damage but I'm definitely saying it was stupid and it wasn't ideal but it did do damage at the end of the day I feel like after going through that I felt I felt like I would have looked better and more separated on stage being flat completely flat completely carb depleted you know I would have so it was stupid next morning I woke up and my mind was playing tricks on me I thought fuck man you've done it you've gone and done it you've you've absolutely ruined your condition you know in reality I was pretty pretty dehydrated as well so I didn't ruin my condition it's not like a drunk a whole heap of water with the carbohydrates I drank some water but not much so anyway we went into the show by the end of the show so by the end of that day I was looking as tight and as dry as I had been the previous two so I probably just needed a bit more time for those carbs to process for a bit more water dehydration to happen and then I probably would have been alright so I guess moving forward I think I can process that amount of carbohydrates but I think I'd need to do it over a period of days and that actually jogs my memory because I did continue to eat carbohydrates and I didn't probably feel that real full like bursting feeling of my muscles having not even trained them until about the Tuesday so moving forward I'd love to yes deplete that last well second to last week get into the condition that I'm happy with and then slowly but surely throughout that final week bring carbohydrates in you know slowly but surely you know start to feel that that that tight feeling in my muscles that I hadn't had for so long and come into the show with a nice flat six pack but with nice full feeling muscles that's the plan so anyways guys that was the stupid approach I had to my second show peak week the first one was a bit better because I hadn't been dieting for so long and my mental state was a lot stronger this last show man I've just been doing it for too long I just wanted to get it over and done with and I ended up doing some crazy shit so yeah that's it man that's the video for today I hope you've enjoyed I am about to head home and have my first meal of the day but here we are two weeks post show and that is the condition you know my bicep is split which is a good sign and I'm gonna see you guys in the next video thanks for watching guys consider liking consider subscribing it means hell of a lot there's plenty of content to come this this YouTube channel follows me jakey mcdonald throughout my life doing whatever I do at the time you never know what you're gonna get neither do I it's kind of worrying sometimes but then again that's just the way I am so peace out guys have a great day ladies