This is gonna be kind of a rant, the stress of this situation sucks. Cliffs at bottom
My stats currently are:
6'5"
225.0 as of 7:30AM this morning
35 years old
Backstory: I've been training in muay thai and I have my first official fight on March 29th. March 28th at 1pm is the weigh-in. I accepted the fight at 230 at the beginning of March and figured I could get down to 220 with a month to go. No one in my 220-235 weight class registered so after a month of registration the organization asked if I was willing to cut to 220, I said yes. I want to fight that bad.
I lost 4 pounds last week (230 to 225) and got down 224.3 yesterday morning, but all of a sudden this morning I jumped back up to 225 (or 226 depending on which scale, usually the scales are .2 off, not a pound, so no idea WTF the scales being a pound off is about). My nutritional intake (fat, sugar, cals, carbs) was damn near the same throughout Thursday as it was on Wednesday when I ended up losing a pound from Wednesday to Thursday.
My diet isn't perfect. I have decades (im 35 again) of bad eating habits so doing what I'm doing right now seemed impossible to me at the beginning of my cut. Not eating junk food for instance (I legit used to eat 2-3 wendys chocolate chip cookies A DAY, maybe taking 2 days off tops. Thats how unhealthy I ate for months before this), but not eating perfectly apparently either.
I need help, motivation, something. I'm unemployed, so I'm limited on what I can buy, I can't just make an appointment with a nutritionist right now, too much money involved. I want to make this weight, and I only need to lose .40 a day to comfortably make weight naturally vs me having to sit in a sauna the day of the weigh-in and starve myself of water and food, which is last ditch effort that other fighters swear will drop 3-4 pounds off. I dont want that. The goal I'm aiming for is 219 naturally by the weigh-in.
I think my biggest eating mistake has been eating fries during lunch, I'll eat a grilled chicken wrap at CFA or Wendys or a salad but have fries, I think I need to eliminate the fries entirely. MY biggest concern is that I'm stubborn and I have the eating discipline of a child. I hate fruits, I hate veggies, applies and bananas are the only fuits/veggies I eat during the day and I'll eat something like green beans or carrots with my dinner. Or again, salad. I can't figure out how to tighten up my diet with shit I actually want to eat and I've been routinely falling back into rationalizing adding fries to my lunch. It's easier when I eat at home but I do uber eats to make some extra cash so I often end up like 45 minutes from home when its time to eat, so I eat out.
As far as working out, monday-thursday I do an hour of muay thai. Now its not an exact science, sometimes its really 40-45 minutes of drilling. Sometime its 15-20 of drilling and then 12-15 minutes of sparring. Fridays or saturdays I'll knock out anywhere from 5-8 rounds of sparring depending on gym location, one gym spars at 5 minute rounds, one at 3 minute rounds. I added HIIT running to my daily routine, I usually do one minute run, one minute walks for 2-3 miles.
My wife thinks the added weight was muscle being added from the HIIT running up and down hill. I easily got 5 pounds of fat in my stomach to run off somehow.
Help. Please.
Cliffs: I have to lose 5 pounds to make weight for my first official muay thai fight and I need severe help with my diet, i'm having trouble with this whole "just eat veggies and fruits" since I hate veggies and fruits and would prefer to eat fries and bread and burgers and junk food.
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