Steel - Dehydration and Overseas Comp

[JJFigure]

Hey Steel! I hear you did an overseas comp last year; how did you deal with getting dehydrated from flying? I'm flying on Wed - Thursday for a Saturday comp in Vienna. I tend to get really dehydrated when I fly, but this is a time frame when I DON'T want to be dehydrated. Did you just carry a couple of gallons of water on the plane with you? And pee every 10 minutes?

 

[SteelWeaver]

Hey girl! Well, er, no. I actually LIVE overseas, lol.

BUT, my Nov 3 comp. is in Oz, which is overseas from here. I'm flying on the Wednesday for a Sunday comp. , and a bit worried about the same thing. Since I'll still be water loading then, though, I'm just gonna take some extra, and yeah, pee all the time. (I always request an exit row seat, for my legs, and it's always RIGHT next to the head, dammit, but will be useful in this case) I'm also going to make sure I walk around a lot, and stretch and flex my legs a lot, and try and keep them up, because they always bloat up in the cabin. At the layover in Korea I'm gonna do some speed walking around the airport. Dunno if that'll help, but anyway.

I posted this exact same question a couple of months ago, got a couple of good replies - I'll go look for it and bump it.

 

[JJFigure]

Thanks again! So, are you ready? Give up the details - what color is your suit? What music are you free-posing to? What are you using for tanning dye?

I used Jan Tana Show Tan for my last show and LOVED it. It smells good, is nice and dark, and fades off well. Before that I had used a mix of Pro Tan and DyoDerm - color was nice, but it reeked and only came off when your skin shedded. Had to wear long sleeves for weeks.

 

[SteelWeaver]

You're welcome.

Oh, dear - your questions come in an unfortunate frame of mind for me. Am I ready? The truth? I'm FAR from ready, even less ready than last time. Somehow - I don't have a clue how, since I wasn't cheating - I fucked up my diet, and was left with 8 kilos to lose in 5 weeks. I'm still as fat as a house, living on 1000 calories, 2 hours cardio and 45 mins weight training a day. I'm horribly depressed and wish I could allow myself to quit, but I can't, so I'm stuck with fighting my body/my mind tooth and nail to the last gasp. I have Show Tan, my friend will paint me. I have a black suit and a cobalt blue one - I think I'll go with the blue. My routine isn't ready, I don't know the name of the music - but I HAVE music anyway - nice music, which will make me happy on stage, if I get anywhere near actually having to use it - ha ha - only the top three will do free posing, so I'm not too worried about it. I'm more worried about how to deal post comp with the horrors I'm inflicting on my metabolism.

BUT


The show won't be over til the fat lady flexes.





(BTW - I DON'T recommend this as a pre-comp strategy worth exploring for ANYONE - the diet is a bitch to stick to).