# @thedorianyates on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DdrfSKpCEJn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/70936403-thedorianyates-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-09-24T18:05:44.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dorian Yates (@thedorianyates) — https://gondola.cc/thedorianyates

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“How’s the diet?”😂

Contest prep was more of a mental challenge. When you’re dieting every single day, becoming more and more tired every single day… it can take its toll!

Even though I was consuming some 3,500 calories during my lowest days during the Olympia, which may still seem quite a lot to some people… I was absolutely starving! It was quite the deficit compared to the 6,500 calories I was used to eating in my off-season!

Your mind can play tricks on you, when you’re craving those extra calories and fats. One night I remember having a dream that felt so real. In my dream I went downstairs into my kitchen and devoured a whole, giant plate of sausages!

I remember waking up in a pool of sweat thinking “Did I just do that?!”

Of course I didn’t even have sausages in the house so I was able to calm myself back down.

The ability to master your mind and body. When it was calling out for food during my severe caloric deficit and extremely low body fat, I was able to tell myself, “No, I’m in control here and we’re gonna eat what and when I say so.”

The end goal was always in my mind.

I had to remind myself that I chose to do this and that it wasn’t fair to take it out on anyone else.

But of course it can get to you.

#MrOlympia #Bodybuilding #Diet #Muscle #Cutting

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mrolympia, cutting, diet, muscle, bodybuilding

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