It seems to me that if your body is resisting going below 10% despite your best efforts, then perhaps your body is trying to tell you something....it doesn't want to go any leaner. If it gets tougher and tougher to get below 10%, it may be for very good reason....your body is resisting it.
Either that, or that someone is having trouble getting to 10% because they simply aren't working hard enough to get to that bf%. If you are going to tell me it is physically impossible to get to 5% or 6% bf by means of a sound ' food ' diet and solid, hard training, I don't buy it. You can reach that sub 10% goal without having to resort to some ' extreme ' V-day or keto diet - in know, I've done it. It just takes some hard work, eating wholesome normal food and a lot of discipline..........and most of all, patience. I think most average gym rats who resort to ' extreme ' things like this V-diet and keto diet just to drop a few lbs. of fat are either extremely impatient, lazy - or both.
That said, I can see that an " extreme diet " may make sense when getting to a very low fat is part of what you need to do as a vocation and as a result you need to meet fat loss related deadlines ....as with a body builder, fitness model, actor etc. With an average gym rat, there is no compelling fitness / health reason that justifies using " extreme methods " to simply get to sub 10% ....other than vanity of course.
I also think any good diet should be a ' sustainable diet ' - a diet that you can embrace for the next 10,000 days...not a ' difficult diet ' that only has a shelf life for the next 28 days cause it's so ' extreme '.
That's the same justification you could use to rationalize the use of steroids now it isn't.
