Marisa ready to show her form

Khan-Lutchman is eyeing the top prize in the women’s physique open after finishing second last year.

Khan-Lutchman, who is in her third year of competing, said she plays close attention to the judges remarks after competitions which she uses as preparation for the next event.

Khan-Lut chman said, “I like to work with criticisms. I got criticisms from the judges, so whatever criticisms I got we worked with that to improve certain areas. For example, they said that the shoulders needed to come up a bit, my back needed to come up a bit, so we worked greatly on those areas.” Khan-Lutchman, who has been preparing for this year’s championships since March 1, said she is ready. “To be honest, preparations were really good.

I am ready - as ready as I can possibly be.” The Claxton Bay resident said she has maintained a strict diet of only fish over the past three months to get the best results from her training.

“My diet had to change completely. I started preparing for the show from the first of March. My diet is basically just fish alone, nothing else. I tend to use tilapia, because it is the sweetest fish to use for this kind of event especially when you have to eat fish alone.” Despite the stringent diet, Khan-Lutchman loves everything about body-building.

“I love the preparation, the dieting. At the end of it when you look at yourself and you see the results of it, that is what I look forward too.” Khan-Lut chman said she often has to fight temptations when she is out with family.

“When I go out with my husband and my son and they have to eat, I will sit there while they eat nice things.

I would just take out a bowl with fish. The temptations are there but I really fight it.” Her husband supports her by eating fish sometimes with her.

Khan-Lutchman, who is 34 years old, explained that after she had her son in 2011, she began to take the sport seriously.

“I was always into fitness. After I had my son, I decided to start doing it competitively.

After I had him I wanted to get all that baby fat down,” she explained