Making weight

[Kerpal]

I need to make weight for a BJJ tournament that starts on Saturday. Weigh ins are on Friday night. I have to weigh 189 lbs or less to fit into the weight class I want to enter. I weighed myself this morning right after getting out of bed, no clothes on, I weighed 190 lbs. So I have to be 1 pound less by Friday night.

I know it sounds like no big deal to lose 1 pound in 6 days, but I want to do this carefully so that I'm not really tired when the tournament starts on Saturday and I want to lose a little more than 1 pound just in case their scale is different from mine or something. Maybe 3-4 lbs.

What I will probably do is cut down a lot on meals during the week, maybe just have a couple small meals a day, and after dinner on Thursday not eat anything until I'm done weighing in on Friday night.

Anyone have any advice?

 

[shaunuk]

Hmm, one idea would be to cut carbs almost completely from your diet this week and take weight loss in the form of water weight. You'll lose water weight as the water previously stored in your cells due to carbohydrates is urinated/lost otherwise. Make your diet proteins and fats, with some carbs for breakfast perhaps.

A less intelligent idea would be to take a balls-to-the-wall approach like pre-contest BBers do and just blatantly dehydrate yourself by fluid deprivation and diuretics. But how well can you perform in a martial arts tournament in a partially dehydrated state, and how healthy is it in general, really? Not very on both questions, so don't bother

-shaun

 

[iLoveCookies]

well you need to lose 1 lb.

1 lb is 3000 calories so , you have 6 days, do the math

500 calories a day , so take in 500 less or burn 500 more

 

[Skilla_Staz]

I thought 1lb = 3500 calories...

 

[manuva]

Don't alter your diet. Just sweat it out, and remember to replace the fluid after the weigh in. It's a standard operating procedure for fighters.

One pound is nothing - I've had fighters needing to drop 6kg in 5 days to make weight.

 

[Kerpal]

Thanks for the input. I talked to my friends who are more experienced than me and they told me not to worry about it at all, 1 lb is nothing. My friend has to lose 7 lbs by Friday night and he's not worried about it at all. I weighed myself on an electronic scale that is suppsedly more accurate after a small breakfast of oatmeal and fruit today and it said 189.8 lbs.

I was worried about it so much that I only ate 2 small meals yesterday and a bowl of oatmeal this morning, and had the ****est practice today because I was too tired to do anything from not getting any food. My friend told me to just clean up my diet a lot by cutting out bread and etc. temporarily, and eat just a little less than normal and I should be fine. The good news is the weigh ins are a day before the tournament starts, so I have a day to "refuel".

 

[CLOONEY]

LOL, are you serious? You have never competed before with weight limits huh? 1lb is NOTHING! Sit in your car with the heater on for 20 minutes. Skip for 10 minutes. Loosing water is the way everyone does it when trying to hit a weight limit, and some guys do several pounds, so one pound will be an absolute peice of cake!

 

[Kerpal]

LOL, are you serious? You have never competed before with weight limits huh? 1lb is NOTHING! Sit in your car with the heater on for 20 minutes. Skip for 10 minutes. Loosing water is the way everyone does it when trying to hit a weight limit, and some guys do several pounds, so one pound will be an absolute peice of cake!

Nope haha This is my first time doing anything like this.