Bodybuilding and traveling while living in Japan (GetFitJP)

How do you stay lean while eating like a pig on vacation? I was asked this question by a friend and a client recently. Being a fitness coach and trainer, it's important for me to keep my body in check throughout the year. This includes even the off season, but I'm still human at the end of the day. I have cravings and sometimes I feel the urge to indulge from time to time. I use my vacations to do just that. I mean why else would you go on vacation if not for relaxing and letting go for a minute.  Let's also not forget the awesome food, we always eat on vacation. So what's the trick? While i'm not sure what other people do, I'll tell you what I do. I normally try to keep my body fat in the low teens during my off season. This allows me the flexibility of getting lean easily if I need to do a photo shoot or if I have to guest pose at an event. It also allows me the flexibility of not being too strict with food. When planning my vacations I normally plan...

Even though I don't eat out a lot when I do, I like to get my moneys worth. That being said Japan is not the cheapest place to eat, especially if you like to eat a lot. Sure you can find cheap eats here and there but in many of those places they fill you up with rice or bread and not the things that really count, like meat or fish. So how do you eat out and still save money at the same  time? The answer is simple find good tabehoudai （食べ放題 tabehoudai in means all you can eat）restaurants.  When you enter a restaurant that has this option it means that for a set amount of time you can eat anything you want on that given tabehoudai menu. Some restaurants have different options for example options for time, 60min 90min or 120min. Others might have an option for the amount of dishes. So if a tabehoudai costs ￥2000 yen for 60 mins you might have the option of choosing from 30 dishes. The more you pay the more dishes will be available to you. From the above menu you would pay...