Best thing to eat after a morning of weigh in?

LukeyJudo22

What's the best thing to eat and drink after a morning of weigh in?

For example weigh in at 8am and fight at 10am

Last time i did a morning weigh in I drank weigh too much damn lucosade and tossed my cookies after my first match... Thankfully it was off the mat. Funny thing was (among other things) nobody at the contest batted an eyelid coz they've seen it happen so many times!

So how do I stop this re-occurence and still manage to feel hydrated and not fatigued from cutting weight?

Any ideas?

Nothingcompares

Just my small opinion after some discussion about this with John Kavanagh and lots of others.

Weigh in at 8am. Presuming you're on a tight cut and haven't eaten or drank much in a while. Start sipping water and ideally a product designed for rehydration that contains potassium, sodium and electrolytes. Have some fruit, banana (potassium containing, energy), orange. I like to take some nuts and raisins.

Don't eat and drink lucosade or jaffa cakes or stuff like that.

Just my opinion so far. Hopefully more ideas to come.

David Jones

Highly recommend, diorolyte sachets. Can be picked up in any chemist. Designed for rehydration of salts etc. two sachets in about 1.5l of water, which should be slightly warm for better and more efficient absorption. Raisins, small amounts of banana mashed up with baby food (yuck, but it works), dried papaya etc

Nothingcompares

BTW good luck tomorrow luke, i presume you're preparing for the Scottish open.

Actually good luck to Dave Jones too who's doing a BJJ comp tomorrow.

And good luck to me

ninjawitatitude

He nothingcompares,
just a few points i'd clash with you on

Nothingcompares wrote:

...Start sipping water and ideally a product designed for rehydration that contains potassium, sodium and electrolytes.

Spot on here mate

Nothingcompares wrote:

Have some fruit, banana (potassium containing, energy), orange. I like to take some nuts and raisins.

I would advise against taking bananas and raisins at this time. Due to the high glycemic index (G.I.) these will turn straight into sugar and give a a quick sugar high followed by the associated crash, the result of which is groggy head caused by insulin keeping carbhydrates from traveling round the body, hence starving the brain and making you feel tired. For the same reason I would warn against fruit juices.

I would advise fibrous fruits such as apples, pears, grapes and peaches. Cherries, plums and grapefruit are particularly low G.I. The fibre in these fruits will slow the release of carbs and consequently keep insulin levels down. They should also be light enough as to not affect your fighting.

Nothingcompares wrote:

Don't eat and drink lucosade or jaffa cakes or stuff like that.

Spot on again.

I can give you a more complete list if you want. I would go for a meal with protein, carbs and fats for choice. This will set you up particularly well if you'll be having a few fights.

Hope this helps

*edit- I should add that half a banana or similar just before (15-20 mins) a fight will definitely give you an edge going into the fight but may not be such a good idea first thing in the morning. How many times will you be fighting?

judoka

ninjawitatitude wrote:

I can give you a more complete list if you want.

Any chance you could post it up here?

Thanks.

Nothingcompares

Thanks for the info Ninja. On the day of my perforanace what I actually ate was a bowl of bran flakes with normal milk mixed with some nuts and raisins (9am). It was my intention to eat porridge but I didn't have time. Through out the day I sipped water and ate 2 plums and an apple. I had about 15minutes of mat time (may not sound like a lot but it felt like a lot at the time).

LukeyJudo22

David Jones wrote:

Highly recommend, diorolyte sachets. Can be picked up in any chemist. Designed for rehydration of salts etc. two sachets in about 1.5l of water, which should be slightly warm for better and more efficient absorption. Raisins, small amounts of banana mashed up with baby food (yuck, but it works), dried papaya etc

Yeah those sachets and the raisins sound like the business. When i got hungry in between fights I ate chocolate raisins and felt fine. And yeah I've always ate bananas at contests.

I cut down to 65.5 in the sauna the night before the weigh in and ate & drank up to 66.5 going to bed. and i woke up .7 lighter! So I didnt feel that bad at all around the time of the weigh in.

But yeah, I'll check those sachets out next regional comp and see how they work for me. Thanks Dave!

Cheers for the other info too lads!

ninjawitatitude

At the request of Judoka i will put up some sample meals and a list of low G.I. snacks.

Meal 1
1 Skinless chicken breast (about the size of two decks of cards)
1 large red onion (raw, chopped)
1 Tablespoon of guacamole

Meal 2
1 portion of salmon (about the size of two decks of cards)
4 green peppers (raw, chopped)
2 Macadamia nuts OR 2 teaspoons of silvered almonds

Meal 3
4 egg whites
1/3 cup dry porridge made with water and 1/2 apple
2/3 teaspoons olive/ peanut oil

Meal 4
2/3 oz (about 2/3 of a standard scoop) made with water
1 apple
12-15 peanuts (untreated, definitely not from a pack of dry roasted or salted)

Not a comprehensive list by any means but these are some of the most convenient things to carry around.

As for low g.i. snacks do have some of the following
1 apple
6 apricots
1 cup blackberries
1 cup blueberries
15 cherries
1 grapefruit
1 cup grapes
2 tangerines
1 orange

count each item (e.g 6 apricots) as one unit, eat no more than one unit every hour (before exercise), so if you weigh in at 8, aim for a meal straight away and one snack at 9. Then a snack after each fight. Thats assuming you get about half an hour between fights

Steer clear of these, unless you are going into your last fight, feel free to take one, about 20 mins before you go in. Bearing in mind that you will get that scatter brained, tired feeling shortly (30-40 mins) afterwards.
ANY fruit juice
bananas
cranberries
Dates
figs
mago
papaya
raisins

I know some of these are high in potassium which helps recovery but due to the high G.I. are bad to take before exercise

Hope this helps