Advice needed need to lose 2 kilos

spiral

Hi Folks
At the moment I am 93.5 Kilos . I need to lose 2 kilos by march 10th for a sub wrestling tournament.
Would appreciate any advice. I am 6 ft even no idea of body fat % am fairly well built but probably carrying a stone or so extra.
I train BJJ 3-4 times a week and do a lot of bodyweight exercises (Squats , burpees, various kind of pressups and situps and chins) on otherdays)
I have recently started messing around with tabatas and found them great but very hard on the body.
I eat fairly well as near to paleo as I can manage but I do like the beers once a week.
At the moment I eat three meals a day but looking through previous posts it seems to be frequently recommended to eat 6 , why is this ?

Thanks in advance

StickyMcGinty

i'm only a novice to this crack myself, but i gather its to gradually speed up your metabolism

HammerHeadGym

spiral wrote:

...I need to lose 2 kilos by march 10th for a sub wrestling tournament.

How long before the comp do you weigh in? If its the day before you can probably sweat it out of you with a skipping rope and a sweat suit. Just lash the electrolytes out of it once the have signed you off.

spiral wrote:

...looking through previous posts it seems to be frequently recommended to eat 6 [meals a day], why is this?

To keep your metabolism from slowing down or speeding up. Most effecient use of food.

spiral

Dave its on the morning weigh ins at ten comp at 11 .
I think I should be ok just wondering if anyone has any tips really

because_I_can

i think you should go on a diet

D-Generate

I'm currently 88kg but for boxing I have to be under 86kg. Most guys I know cut pretty much two or three days before with a hell of a lot of sweating but I prefer a gradual two week cut. You won't lose that much muscle so don't worry about it. Cutting out carbs after 3 o'clock is what I find loses me the weight. I also watch my salt intake as well as crappy food as this will increase the excess water weight that you are carrying. Just get used to being hungry for two weeks and whatever you do don't give in to snacking ont that chocolate bar thats lying around or the bottle of beer in the fridge. If you do that it shows that you don't want to win that much that you can't give up for a short time.

About two or three days before the fight I'm usually around 84kg and as such I can be fully hydrated going in to the fight and also eat something small before the weigh in.

Clive

Spiral,

eat 6 smaller meals a day, cut out the crap (pasta, rice, bread etc), eat plenty of fruit and veg and 2 kilos will fall off you in three and a half weeks.

I disagree with the last poster in that, since you aren't losing a large amount of weight, there's no reason for you to be hungry.

spiral

ok lads much appreciated,

D-Generate

Clive wrote:

Spiral,

I disagree with the last poster in that, since you aren't losing a large amount of weight, there's no reason for you to be hungry.

I didn't mean that food would be constantly on your mind but with 6 smaller meals than usual you will still have a hunger that you usually wouldn't have. He won't be as full as usual, hence he will have feelings of hunger.