Cutting weight.

halpers

I usually can make weight but just wondering if any of you use appetite surpressors? If so could any of you recommend any. It's just I have a crazy appetite the whole time that seems to multiply when I'm cutting. Is there any suppressors that just suppress the appetite and not the energy/jittery/comedown types?

RoboRat

It's just I have a crazy appetite the whole time that seems to multiply when I'm cutting

That would be because you are cutting weight, I watched a really interesting program recently, basically your body thinks that your normal weight is the right weight and if you cut weight it will basically think its being starved so it will make you eat more to get back to your initial weight. Try eating foods with high satiety levels - popcorn is very good, just don't salt it.

Gilbert Grape

5 htp is very good.

Gumbi

RoboRat wrote: »

That would be because you are cutting weight, I watched a really interesting program recently, basically your body thinks that your normal weight is the right weight and if you cut weight it will basically think its being starved so it will make you eat more to get back to your initial weight. Try eating foods with high satiety levels - popcorn is very good, just don't salt it.

I do like my salted popcorn :D I have a bag every night, no exaggeration. unsalted is definitely a lot healthier.

Mellor

halpers wrote: »

I usually can make weight but just wondering if any of you use appetite surpressors? If so could any of you recommend any. It's just I have a crazy appetite the whole time that seems to multiply when I'm cutting. Is there any suppressors that just suppress the appetite and not the energy/jittery/comedown types?

Are you talking about dropping body fat in the weeks before a fight?
Or dropping weight in the few days before a weigh-in? Two very different processes.

Double decker

Weight cutting is serious business and you sound like you haven't got a clue what you are doing. I'd highly recommend you don't do it, don't take advice from the internet (except the previous two sentences).

p to the e

Double decker wrote: »

Weight cutting is serious business and you sound like you haven't got a clue what you are doing.

You got that from 2 lines?

Danny_Lennon

The vast majority of commercial appetite suppressants are dirt.

Just use coffee instead. Coffee contains cholinomimetics which actually suppress hunger signals.

The caffeine will also be beneficial in a phase where you are trying to drop actual body fat, which is the point I presume you are talking about. If you are at the actual 'weight cutting' point, i.e. the days pre-weigh in, then just push through the hunger, it's what making weight is all about!

_oveless_

Just out of curiosity what would be the recommended rate of weight loss per week leading up to a fight?

halpers

Sorry folks maybe I wasn't clear and the title was misleading. I was more looking for recommendations for any suppressors(non speedy/jittery types) have used olymp thermo speed extreme in the past and found it good for dulling the appetite the first few times but it doesn't have the effect it used to and also I wanna stay away from the speedy types. Just need a little help stopping the stomach screaming at me while I'm making weight, cheers lads.

youllneverknow

clean the diet up and get a book called nutrition for grapplers.
if your eating right you shouldn't feel hungry

venum

http://www.elitewrestling.net/Forms/grapplers-guide.pdf found this usefull, also the dolce diet is out there on pdf as well,