Need to loose weight fast!

memphis

Hi all,

I am a Green Belt in Taekwondo and will be competing in a tournament at the end of the month (29th may to be exact). I am currently weighing in at 80kg+ and would like to get my weight down to under 75kg to fit into the light heavyweight category, otherwise I'll be fighting with the fat bast@rds. LOL

Is there any quick way of loosing weight fast? I'm already on cereal for breakfast, salad for lunch and then one main meal. With lots of water. I intend to give up the booze also!

Any other suggestions?

nesf

Eh, to be honest, I do know some ways that a few guys I knew used use to drop a few kilos before competition fighting, but I would never recommend them to anyone. They are not pretty or nice.

Dropping 5+ kilos in 2 weeks for a green belt competition....

I'd just eat well for the rest of the month, maybe do a little weight training and go fight at 80-85 kilos tbh.

For big competitions at international level rapid weight loss is common, but to be doing it as a green belt is a little extreme in my opinion.

dudara

For fast weight loss, Atkins type eating is the way to go, but even at that, 5 kg in two weeks is too much too fast. I don't know if I'd really recommend that you try to do this. Just compete at 80+ and gain the experience

nesf

dudara wrote:

For fast weight loss, Atkins type eating is the way to go, but even at that, 5 kg in two weeks is too much too fast. I don't know if I'd really recommend that you try to do this. Just compete at 80+ and gain the experience

Competing at a weight catagory above your norm can be very good experience

I remember, one competition a long time ago where the light heavyweight was meant to be 90-95kg and heavyweight 95+ but they changed it to 90+ for heavyweights.

So at 93kg I had to step into the ring against a guy weighing in at 115+kg for a full contact bout.

Very painful. Educational tho.

Mr E

I'll vouch for the Atkins-style diet too. I was 13st 5lb on Monday 2nd, and I'm now 12st 12lb. Its severe (and bloody hard!), but doable.

Edit: 5kg in 2 weeks is going to be very difficult.... You'll feel like sh1t when you get to the fight. It might be a good idea to just change weight category.

BTW - any correlation between you being mod of the 'Chocolate/Sweets' forum and being 5 kg above your weight class? Research, perhaps?

dudara

I went from 75 kg to 62 kg on Atkins in two months in 2004. I've no trouble maintaining it either. In fact, now that I'm far fitter I want to push to under 60.

nesf

*sniffle*

all you thin people....

I was happy at just getting back under the 100kg mark!!

People in hospitals look at you differently when you step on the scales and they creak and the third digit appears.

DrIndy

You need to be careful with sudden weight loss. If you do this regularily, then your body undergoes a stress response and drops your metabolic rate to a very low level as it believes you are starving. Subsequently when you stop a sudden diet, your body reacts to the times of plenty by piling on weight to "prepare" itself for the next "starvation".

This is why some models have great difficulty losing weight even when surviving on a few sticks of celery, their body has adapted to it.

Losing more than 5 kilos in 2 weeks is very rapid.

Train hard and gain more muscle instead and then beat all the big guys! Remember if they are big, you may be able to compensate with speed.....

r3boot

nesf wrote:

*sniffle*

all you thin people....

I was happy at just getting back under the 100kg mark!!

People in hospitals look at you differently when you step on the scales and they creak and the third digit appears.

welcome to the club

memphis

Only checking back on this post now, kinda forgot about it!
Thanks for all the replies!!!

From what I'm reading 2 weeks is/was a bit too extreme to try drop over 5kg. I've a week to go to the tournament and although I've been doing my best to eat healthy I remain the same weight. so will be fighting at 80kg or so. No big deal I suppose.

Yeah, being the HMod of the choccie forum is a big factor to this weigh prob. I love my chocolate, what can I say, but having said that I haven't eaten choccie or crisps in over a week!!

scojones

How did the tournament go?

poobum

dudara wrote:

For fast weight loss, Atkins type eating is the way to go, but even at that, 5 kg in two weeks is too much too fast. I don't know if I'd really recommend that you try to do this. Just compete at 80+ and gain the experience

it works but sometimes can leave you with no enrgy when it comes to the competition! or mabey thats just me...

Naos

Dont worry Nesf ya big girl.
Memph, ur a fighter should be a big over avg weight anyway to take the blows.
All bones will just hurt..
I know ur TKD, so light is good but still..

Also remember, Muscle weighs more than fat

Naos

Sjones: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=255878