Among the many changes Errol Spence has made in and out of the ring in recent months, is putting himself in the best position to compete at a moment’s notice.

The unbeaten, unified welterweight titlist has remained in shape ever since fully recovering from injuries sustained in a single car crash last October. The incident took place less than two weeks after his most recent fight, a 12-round split decision win over Shawn Porter (30-3-1, 17KOs) in their Fight of the Year-level war of a unification clash last September. By his own admission, Spence denied himself the opportunity to enter at peak condition due to having to shed so much weight during training camp.

“Right now, I’m pretty much locked in,” Spence insisted during a recent interview on Showtime’s All The Smoke podcast, on which he appeared live from his home in the greater Dallas area. “I’m not snacking on nothing. I’m locked in. If I show you my fridge right now, there’s nothing in there but water. I’m locked in. I got all my organic foods and trying to eat healthy.

“I’m not trying to go back to where I used to, I’d go up to like 190, 180, 185. I try to stay at 160 so when a fight come it won’t be hard. It used to be hard on me, I’d weigh like 180 and next thing you know I got a press conference. So then I got a press conference and then I’m spending my whole day at the press conference and gain like six pounds. Now we’re trying to do it the right way, like when I was broke and hungry. When I used to weigh 160, 158 and then got down to 147 real smooth.”

Spence was initially due to face former two-division champion Danny Garcia (36-2, 21KOs) earlier this year, only for that fight to be put on hold due to his injury recovery process. The 30-year old southpaw hopes to be one of the first ones out the gate once boxing as a whole is able to resume, keeping his weight down as opposed to having to shed upwards of 40 pounds for each of his wins in 2017 over Porter and previously unbeaten Mikey Garcia (40-1, 30KOs) before that.

“Right now, in the morning time I’m eating egg whites, avocados, spinach,” insists Spence, who later this month will enjoy the three-year anniversary of his 11th round knockout of Kell Brook to win his first welterweight title. “For lunch, I’m eating spinach or I might eat a salad. A plate of salad with some egg whites. No egg yolk because the yolk is just fat. For dinner, I’m eating chicken breasts, a little brown rice. Nothing fried, everything steamed.

“I’m cutting out all the junk food. Even in training camp, I was eat a lot of candy.”

Those days are long gone, with the temptation further removed by not being able to go to very many places these days.

“Once you get through that first month, then you good. But that first month is tough,” Spence admits of the past process in curbing his eating habits. “You keep putting it back. Especially on the weekends, friends might come over, somebody doing something or you go to your mother’s house, and your mother’s got chips, and cakes and sodas. You talking to her, you eating at the same time. Then, once you get home and step on a scale. Then you’re like, “Damn, I gotta go run.” And you running again and got to work it off the next week. “Basically, for me I just stay home. Food is my guilty pleasure. When it comes to food, I’m gonna eat. That’s why I get so high up in weight. Right now, I’m just cutting everything out. I’m kind of glad now because we’re all quarantined up. My mother’s quarantined up, my dad he’s locked in (at home) so I don’t go to their houses. I’m not hanging around anyone, I’m just staying around my kids.”

Jake Donovan is a senior writer for BoxingScene.com. Twitter: @JakeNDaBox