I weighed in today at 51.4kgs and the plan is to stay around 51, so that my body gets comfortable.
You know what's not comfortable being this small though, the fact that leggings no longer stay put, my Great-a$$ jeans aren't so body hugging and now need a belt, my face looks different, and I feel I'm always cold now.
When several of my Hulkies arrived at Hulk's tonight for my Crossfit Challenger class, they all either commented that my face looks so much thinner or that my body looks different. "Ya, that's because I've dropped 3.7kgs since Tuesday -- four days ago", I told them.
They all know I have a fight and me telling them I've dropped so much weight was greeted by them looking concerned and showing me frowned eyebrows. I quite like the frowned eyebrows and concern but one particular female blurted out "I envy". She clearly had no idea the intense training I'm going through, the blood, sweat and tears that have been put literally poured out of my body with training for this fight, the sleepless nights, the mid morning mini panic attacks I have knowing I'm one day closure, and the mix of butterflies fighting my anxiety in my tummy every single day. Moreover, I don't need to lose so much weight, not if I didn't have a fight that is, nor would I ever support or encourage someone losing this much weight in such a short period of time. "I envy", she repeated, "I so envy you". "Sure you do, because you don't understand", I told her. The girl that brags about not sweating during training, as if sweat is only a thing for the obese to do, envies me and I'm supposed to be flattered? How about no.
I'm 34 now and I thought it'd be much harder for me to drop weight because I am older, I haven't had to drop mad weight like this for two years now, and I honestly feel like I'm in more control and consistent with my hard training and clean eating. Unlike with previous pre-fight weight drops, I've been pretty consistent with staying super hydrated. I haven't had to tap into dehydrating myself to drop weight. They say the body is about 70% water which means you can drop a significant amount of weight in a short period of time if you just tap into your body's natural water source. I haven't actually done that yet but am sure I'll be limiting my liquids the day before weigh-in. I think the main thing that has really helped me to drop this much weight so fast has been to eliminate bread and dairy from my eating. I still eat starchy carbs, leaning on mainly oatmeal and sweet potatoes, but my only form of dairy has been the splash of 2% milk in my pre-run morning coffee. Bread isn't the cleanest of starchy carbs and it plus dairy, in particularly milk, leaves me feeling rather bloated and full when I'm not actually so full.
Another thing that has helped me to drop weight so fast and lean out has been to totally change my weight training. I use to split my weight training up into lower body, upper body, abs/core, and then two days of full body. However, now I do full body exercises everyday but they're a lot more intense and while I used to do 40 minutes to an hour of weight training, now I only do about 20-30 minutes. Snickers had me do this one ab/core exercise the other day where instead of using a weight he stood there and pushed down on me as I tried to raise my body... holy ouch!!! I seriously thought something inside me was going to burst with each rep I did and, when I finished, I couldn't lift myself up. Instead, I had to roll onto the floor and use the ring rope to get up. I still have a bruise on my side from that exercise actually.
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