You can absolutely eat and perform off junk food. I once ate a cookie platter (20 chok chip cookies) for breakfast (about 8am) and trained at 5:30pm with tons of energy. I definitely felt sick after eating all of those cookies and could not eat anything else for the rest of the day. This was also after a fight I had.
I also ate a whole Entenmans walnut danish ring (about 1900 cals) on fight day for breakfast. I felt fine in the fight and won.
I think almost all fighter I come in contact with have the same problems with indulging food
Yea pretty much. For me it's like a disease. I walk around at 140-146 and fight at 126. Every fight I promise myself I won't binge eat afterwards and just can't help myself not to.
It's all mental, the fact that I know that I have the freedom to eat whatever I want sets me spiraling out of control. I can't stand it but I can't help myself either. Sometimes I don't even want to eat the certain food but the fact that I know I'll have to cut weight again in a couple of months makes me want to eat it just so I take advantage of it.
I basically have no control/will to tell myself "ok I'll be ok with just this Sinckers bar and that's it for the day." Anyone else have this disease lol?