Dropping Mad Weight... Tuesday, March 11

Got asked by my boxing promoter if I'd be interested in being a kind of standby fighter for a fight that's scheduled for April 5th in Japan.  As the situation stands, there is a Mexican fighter scheduled to travel to Japan to fight a Japanese fighter but the organizers arranging the bout suspect that the Mexican fighter will be a no-show.  This isn't very common but it does happen.  Look, we almost went to Australia the other week for Snickers to fight because the original opponent bailed last minute, less than a week prior to the fight.  

It's a 6 round fight in Japan but it's two weight classes lower than what I'm registered as... and about six full weight classes below the actual weight I am right now.  My promoter asked me how much I weighed and I told him a white lie -- perhaps he now knows this if he reads my homepage.  I'm good for dropping mad weight though, I have kind of mastered the "art", or should I say brutal torture of it.  It's by no means healthy, nor would I ever in a million zillion years recommend it to anyone that isn't in a weight-sensitive sport.  The most I've ever lost in a week has been 3.5-4kgs, which sounds pretty crazy but it's really nothing in comparison to Snickers being able to lose 8kg.     

So how do I do it?!  It's relatively simple.  I weigh myself before and after training, then I eat about half to 3/4 of the weight I dropped.  The key word here is "weight" and not body fat.  If I lost 500 grams during training, which is basically just water weight, I'd only eat about 250-300 grams of food.  300 grams dramatically ranges according to what you eat though.  It could be a salad with chicken or some eggs on rice, but I'd never drink cup of water.  Hell to the no!!!  A cup of water, 300grams worth, is not much.  Sure it'd hydrate me but it won't give me any real nutrition or energy I need to continue on until I can eat again, after next training.  This is where Snickers' Coca Cola, ice cream and banana pre-fight diet makes more sense than people would ever expect.  Snickers only drinks Coca Cola when he has a fight but he drinks it and eats ice cream and bananas in excess.  It becomes basically all he eats for several weeks leading up to a fight, with the exception of a once or twice a week massive meal that consists of rice and extra meat.  The Coca Cola quenches his thirst and the sugar in it energizes him.  It's a bit heavy in weight though but ice cream, which has a lot of sugar too, is very, very light.  As for the bananas, they're a starchy carb that keeps him from, well, going bananas about the lack of food he's eating.

I literally weigh everything that I eat when cutting mad weight for a bout; this is a practice my teammates actually taught me. Note here that I NEVER said it was healthy but hey, when not making weight means you can't fight, trust me, you'll do anything and everything you can to lose that weight so you make weigh-in.  I've seen people try to make themselves puke while on route to weigh-in.  Others have sat in sauna suits in sauna rooms for an hour or two, trying to sweat off the last kilo or so, while a few I know have taken laxatives to try to poop their weight out.  I once cried in pure frustration with not cutting weight as fast as I had hoped for and that only made me start laughing like a mad woman.  "Maybe I can cry out that last 300grams!!!" I giggled.  

Sounds crazy, oh, it kind of is, I know.

I'm not too sure if I'll get the fight, the Mexican fighter may stay true to her word.  I'm not even sure if I can take the fight because I'm trying to schedule one of our amateur boxers a fight for the same day.  If he scores a spot on the fight card, I need to be there.  Regardless, I've started to cut weight. 

I have to get down to minimum weight/mini fly (under 47kgs), so I have 24 days to lose roughly 9kgs.