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Felice Herrig Reveals Her Dieting Issues She Had to Fix Before UFC Fight Night 112

June 24, 2017 | Posted by Jeffrey Harris

MMAjunkie recently spoke to UFC strawweight fighter Felice Herrig ahead of her bout with Justine Kish at UFC Fight Night 112 tomorrow. Below are some highlights.

Herrig on how she lost motivation beforehand: “The thing that made me lose motivation was the obsessiveness. I am an obsessive person, so when I do something I’m always trying to top myself. Every camp I thought I had to work harder, I had to train harder, I had to diet harder.”

Herrig on how her dieting became starvation: “To me, dieting became starvation. I had a lot of eating disorders. I remember there would be times where I would have a can of tuna, and I would split it up, and I would eat that – one can of tuna a day for like weeks at a time, thinking that’s how I was going to cut weight. Thinking that if I wasn’t depriving myself enough then I didn’t want it enough, I wasn’t motivated enough, I wasn’t disciplined enough.”

Herrig on how she eats and diets now: “I eat really clean and healthy whole foods. I don’t eat anything processed. But I listen to what my body is telling me.”

On beating Alexa Grasso: “I thought beating Grasso was going to really shoot me into the rankings. Because you know that if she beat me, you know she would’ve sky-rocketed in the rankings. But honestly I just realize the rankings are (expletive). A fight is a fight. Maybe it’s not the ideal matchup, but we’re all strawweights, and we’re all going to fight each other at some time.”

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