Dangerous crash diets are nothing new for high-level professionals whose livelihood depends on their body (consider model Beverly Johnson, who subsisted on "a bowl of brown rice and an egg a week" during her heyday), and UFC champion Chris Weidman explained to HuffPost Live last week the scary effect of such behavior.
During a conversation about his upcoming fight against Luke Rockhold -- and the childhood penis injury that traumatized him for years --Weidman shared a story of the time he signed on to a fight with 10 days' notice, which required him to lose 32 pounds in less than two weeks. He initially tried to shave off the pounds with grilled chicken and vegetables, but when that didn't work, he took severe steps.
"The weight just wasn't coming off, so then I was down to eating a spoonful of peanut butter for the day," he said.
The diet was about as appealing as it sounds.
"My brain started disappearing," Weidman said. "I had no idea what people were saying to me. I was delirious. And then basically by the time weight cut time came around, I was not healthy. It's something I would never do again."
Watch Weidman discuss his extreme diet -- and how to cut weight the healthy way -- in the video above, and click here for his full HuffPost Live conversation.
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