Im an amateur fightin next month i got to make weight of 140 im 150 now, any do's and don't of what to eat what not to eat. i eat alot of turkey subs with mayo. please help.

10 pounds in a month is do able, you want to be counting your calories, as many small meals a day as you can and run in the morning before you eat. This will make sure your metabolism is working it's ass off, and the running will burn off calories so your guarenteed to lose weight if you burn more calories than your taking in.

run + eat healthy.

Your a lucky bastard because I'm a wrestler and losing weight comes with the name. First keep eating six meals a day. Not big meals. Stick to lean proteins like fish, chicken stuff like that. Keep drinking water. A ****load of water it will fill you up, keep you hydrated and easy as hell to get rid of. Do interval running like for instance sprint for 45 seconds then rest for 30 and do it again. Salty is right watch calories. Don't worry one month is a lot of time. I know about a guy who cut 15 lbs. in three days. He did it the wrong way but it's possible. Just workout like a madman!

were in the same boat..i MIGHT have a fight next month and i weigh 147 trynna get down to 138..im just run and drink lots of water

im gunna have to lose 9 pounds over the next month. Heres what i've been doing and it works.

Wake up early before work. Run a few miles on an empty stomach. Come home, breakfast - either cereal or a slice of toast - cup of tea.

dinner - tuna sandwich, low fat yoghurt, banana, apple, glass of apple juice.

come home from work - have an orange.

Go Boxing train.

Then have my final meal - usually chicken, salad. Or rice and chicken. At the very least i might have beans on toast or something.

If you get hungery have a piece of fruit, or go for another cup of tea.

I lost 15 lbs in 30 days twice by eating around 900-1100 calories a day (Eat a lot of high volume-low calorie foods)

Exercising:

1. 30 mins on the 100lb bag every day
2. Shooting the basketball for 30 mins just dribbling around (Nothing major, you don't get tired doing this either)

And that's all I had to do, the weight will fall right off you if you do it right

If you find yourself hungry just eat some celery since it has absolutely no calories, lettuce is the same way-0 calories. Good things to eat are the Healthy Choice meals, they're low in cals. and they taste pretty good.

cut the mayo = 10 pounds.

One month to lose 10 lbs is not a real problem. I in now way recommend cutting out eating in any way, as a matter of fact eat what you like. Just be sensible about what you eat and what quantities you eat. If you wanna spend your time tracking calories and all I guess that that is fine. But all that you havt to really do is consider what you eat and train hard. As training goes on and your body and endurance become stronger you are going to be working for longer and harder rounds. I dont know what your body looks like right now or if you need to even lose weight. Im just saying train hard and it will come. Trying to cut weight is the worst thing that I have ever done for myself in the ring. Do it natural and you will have all of your stregnth in the ring. Try and cut corners by drastically cutting weight by other "cheating" methods and you will find you self looking for that strength in every round...............Rockin':boxing:

ive done 10lbs in week, in a month it hould be no problem.

cut down on the food nd run more, wel talk again when theres a week left

ive done 10lbs in week, in a month it hould be no problem.

cut down on the food nd run more, wel talk again when theres a week left

and just how did you do this 10 pounds in 1 week.


and wouldn't you guys just think it would be easier to make your regular weight 5 pounds over your fight weight?

The above poster speaks with wisdom,after researching cutting weight I relised how many deaths have been caused by extreme attempts to cut weight.And i have made a solemen vow not to go up farther then 5 pounds of my weight class.

i can email you a whole plan if you like.

i've done 6 lbs in a day.

cut from about 160 to 138 in two weeks.

cut from 148 to 138 in about 36 hours.

Do you ever feel drained or weakend by cutting so much weight.

One question for everyone thats has ring experience for your first fight did you decide when you were ready to fight or did you just go with your trainers suggestion.The reason im asking is my trainer feels im ready but I dont and dont wanna look to imature in the ring (ie All my family and friends would be attending)

Super sorry for the thread high jack i just felt my question didnt need a whole thread by itself.

when i "cut" i always felt it. noone doesn't feel it. i cut to 138, my matches werent for over 6 hours, and probly walked onto the mat at 145 lbs. i felt good tho, but not 100%.

when i "trimmed" and followed a longer better diet plan i felt awesome at 138. but always had to cut 3 or 4 lbs, but that is cake and doesnt really affect me.

there is a book called "grapplers guide to sports nutrition" and it compeltely covers nutrition and dieting down. written by phd and md john berardi. the methods, and diets make sense and work great.

if you must cut do it right. do it wrong or too extreme and you risk kidney failure....

when i cut i always had clean diet for a few weeks, lean protein and steamed veggies. i always had a water jug in my hand. the week before.... 1.5 gallons a day. i couldnt take anymore in.

cutting sucks, but IF YOU MUST, this was my routine

now..... two days before, i cut all salt.


24 hours before cut ALL food and water.

Do one cut session before you go to sleep. (sweating it out with abolene and a sauna suit)

You will lose about 3-4 pounds.

You will lose about 2 over night pissing because of cutting the water.

Do another session in the Am depending on where your weight is when you wake.

Chill the rest of the day and you might just be 1 or 2 over and you will lose at least one of those throughout the day with small pisses and doing nothing.

At most you might need to do one more cutting session and start that 1.5 hours before weigh-ins and be ready 30 minutes early.

when i "cut" i always felt it. noone doesn't feel it. i cut to 138, my matches werent for over 6 hours, and probly walked onto the mat at 145 lbs. i felt good tho, but not 100%.

when i "trimmed" and followed a longer better diet plan i felt awesome at 138. but always had to cut 3 or 4 lbs, but that is cake and doesnt really affect me.

there is a book called "grapplers guide to sports nutrition" and it compeltely covers nutrition and dieting down. written by phd and md john berardi. the methods, and diets make sense and work great.

if you must cut do it right. do it wrong or too extreme and you risk kidney failure....

when i cut i always had clean diet for a few weeks, lean protein and steamed veggies. i always had a water jug in my hand. the week before.... 1.5 gallons a day. i couldnt take anymore in.

cutting sucks, but IF YOU MUST, this was my routine

now..... two days before, i cut all salt.


24 hours before cut ALL food and water.

Do one cut session before you go to sleep. (sweating it out with abolene and a sauna suit)

You will lose about 3-4 pounds.

You will lose about 2 over night pissing because of cutting the water.

Do another session in the Am depending on where your weight is when you wake.

Chill the rest of the day and you might just be 1 or 2 over and you will lose at least one of those throughout the day with small pisses and doing nothing.

At most you might need to do one more cutting session and start that 1.5 hours before weigh-ins and be ready 30 minutes early.


That is very do-able... But the way I like to throw punches constantly... that would hurt my stamina I'd think... Could be wrong though.. maybe I'd feel fine.

ye i gotta cut 18 pounds but i got until january! how can i do it the proper way!

"That is very do-able... But the way I like to throw punches constantly... that would hurt my stamina I'd think... Could be wrong though.. maybe I'd feel fine."

it can crush you, but not stamina wise, at least not for me. some guys though get tired just walking to the mat.

when i cut it was for sub grappling matches.... i always had great stamina and speed... but lacked power. my takedowns in the gym would feel strong and hard and i wouldnt have issues generating explosive power.... after cutting sometimes i felt like i was "pushing" rather than exploding.


"ye i gotta cut 18 pounds but i got until january! how can i do it the proper way!"

easy with no cutting. post your email and i can send you some sample plans that do not involve cutting, and also how to properly put the weight back on if you want to.

The safest way to lose weight without killing yourself is to go VEGETARIAN or SEMI-VEGETARIAN for about two weeks out. You'll lose weight without getting weak. The key is to keep PROTEIN FORITIFIED foods in your diet such as nuts (coconut milk is great too). CASHEWS, ALMONDS (if no allergies). Big SALADS with lots of dark GREENS (again protein) and nuts on it...Lots of FRUIT (fruits are great because you lose weight but you maintain a good ph balance plus organic water intake)....If you got a month to lose, you need to ease into the VEGGIE diet by the 3rd week and keep it up. In fact, in some cases (depending on how the weight is dropping) you can still eat meat like FISH. You have to monitor it....This way is safer and you wont starve yourself and be weak tryna make weight. At the least you wont be that far off by fight day.

"fruits are great because you lose weight but you maintain a good ph balance plus organic water intake"

I would have to disagree. Your bodies systems are very fine tuned and will always keeps homeostasis. If your Ph level fluctuated you'de be in big trouble. Your diet will not affect your blood Ph on any level other than miniscule.

Water is not organic.

Actually your body doesn't ALWAYS keep HOMEOSTASIS there's a constant battle going in your body the same as is going on in the UNIVERSE/PLANET on which it is modeled. Thus, you can get SLIGHTLY out of that HOMEOSTATIC balance and get DIS-EASE, RASHES and the like (ACNE, PSORIASIS, ECZEMA). In fact, it's because your bodies are indeed SO FINED TUNE as you say, that it notices that slight IMBALANCE and eliminates the toxins causing it thru the skin, producing said rashes, etc...Your PH fluctuates but not to the extent you may think Im alluding to BUT enuff so that your ACID/ALKALINE balance gets enuff out of wack to produce diseases. It's very common. So not enuff for BIG TROUBLE, as you mentioned but for SMALL problems but worrisome enuff to keep you sick, ill, etc...If it goes on too long you will definitely be in BIG trouble....Furthermore, everything you ingest into your body affects your BLOOD whether it's more likely FOOD or CHEMICALS. Just like you cant put just anything into your gasoline tank. Additionally, whether you realize it or not--it only takes a MINISCULE deviation to produce sickness in your body's delicate balance after fueling it incorrectly over a period of time.

As far as the ORGANICNESS (yes, that's a word Im using...lol) of WATER, not to split hairs, ORGANIC simply is about the water being INDIGENOUS to the fruit which contains it NATURALLY such as ORANGES, WATERMELON, APPLES, etc...Moreover, the water is truly essential since way too many boxers eat sweets and are constantly DEHYDRATED in their attempts to pare down to size...

However, the technique is sound and SAFE and I've used and MONITORED it with lots of success with fighters over the last 25 years.