Dieting Before Cons

Some of you probably cosplay here (hellooooo, fellas!) so I'm curious.. have you gotten to a point where you have to go on a diet/workout to get into your character role before cons? ^^ Sure as hell do. How do you guys pull it off?

I don't know if I've done it for cosplay specifically, but in general there's nothing wrong with staying in shape. I've lost about 13 lbs in the last seven weeks just eating better and working out a bit over an hour a day on Wii Fit U 6 out of 7 days a week. I'm sure it helps if you're trying to get into a specific character, but starving yourself to death just to come close to an already "idealized" character size is not healthy or worth it.

I usually do a vegan diet and/or no sweets (minimum sugar) diet and increase my daily workout load for about a month or two depending on situation (or which con it is).