Weight loss practices and eating behaviours among female physique athletes: Acquiring the optimal body composition for competition

• Nura Alwan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nura Alwan, Samantha L. Moss, Kevin Enright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: N.alwan@2016.ljmu.ac.uk

  Affiliations Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Department of Sport and Health Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7033-6250

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• Samantha L. Moss ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nura Alwan, Samantha L. Moss, Kevin Enright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom

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• Ian G. Davies ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3722-8466

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• Kirsty J. Elliott-Sale ,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Musculoskeletal Physiology Research Group, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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• Kevin Enright

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nura Alwan, Samantha L. Moss, Kevin Enright

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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