165.3 this AM. This is just over 75 kg. The ki supposedly weighs 1.5 kg. Competition is this weekend, saturday or sunday. Just need to stay the course.
I'm now as light as I've been since I moved to London. Last time I was this light was about 2.5 years ago, when I went 160 lbs for a tournament. I'm stronger now than I was then. In college I wrestled at 157, but that was a long time ago, innit.
I've been training BJJ/no-gi 4-5 times a week, jogging about 20 miles a week, lifting 1-2 times, but all low rep, low weight lifts. The jogs are usually 7-mile runs 2x a week and several shorter runs, mostly on the weekends.
I haven't had any alcohol in the past three weeks weeks. I have been eating healthy for the past month-plus. Over the past week, I have begun to limit my caloric intake a lot, which let's face it, is a necessity if you're going to lose 5 lbs in a week. 1.5 light meals a day. I might have cut the calories a LITTLE too early, but since it's been going for a few days, I no longer get hungry easily, which helps. (If I were to have a big meal, I would get full very quickly. This will happen immediately following my competition.) Good news is, I still poop after eating, so my body isn't so hungry it's hoarding food, which would be bad. I'm NOT particularly dehydrated, and I would like to be able to weigh in without going the dehydration route, since my match is immediately after the weigh in. My piss smells strongly like vitamins because I'm eating a ton of vitamins to make up for the lack of food.
I expect to be one of the strongest guy/ the strongest guy in my division. Most BJJ competitors aren't as good at losing weight as me, and my game emphasizes physical strength anyways, because I wrestled for so long. On the other hand, it is my first competition as a purple belt, and it is a larger international competition, so I could be up against some almost-brown-belts. There is one guy from my school in my division and he is a beast, sponsored by a gi company (tatami) and took 2nd, I think, in europeans last year. He kicks the shit out of me in practice.
Losing weight makes me think about food a lot. If my tourney is saturday, I plan on cooking chili on sunday while watching football. I also bought 2 vietnamese cookbooks on amazon and want to learn how to cook the food I am notoriously gay for. I would also like to get drunk.
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