If you have to diet for 16 weeks to get in shape for a show you were not really in shape to start there is a difference between being in shape walking around 365 and starving and calorie restricting yourself to look like you are in shape for an hour on stage before turning back into your natural sloppy slob mess. I am in shape and I eat because I am in real shape not just starving myself down.I maintain condition my abs are real from exercise not diet. I am at my strongest now I am not depleted in anyway