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1977 weight loss advice (europe.pub)
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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Is that true? It wouldn't surprise me. When I was competing in that weight category sport I had a very skewed view of what I considered overweight (for me).

99% of the population would have considered me lean as fuck when I thought otherwise.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I was going to say, sounds like the shit the wrestlers used to do back in high school. Always seemed wildly unhealthy.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Imo weight class should be determined by an average of a bunch of weigh-ins for weeks or months before an event. Then, on the day of the event, allow some tolerance over the max weight but only if the average stays under. If the average creeps up into the tolerance zone, then they go up a weight class. Make the weight classes based on healthy habits rather than basically cheating in an unhealthy way to make weight a day before, then bulking back up to whatever weight for the actual fight.

    Not that I have any stake in any of that, so my say isn't really relevant.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There's no good solution IMO. There's a way to game everything. Ultimately it boils down to: You don't want hefty people fighting little people. A 24 hour weigh in causes a small number of folks to go to extremes and a weigh in just before fighting could have someone fighting dehydrated.

    Nearly everyone runs a 6 or 8 week run up to a fight where they're constantly losing weight. For me it was pure numbers. e.g. I'm 7KG over fighting weight with 6 weeks to go. It's a 1000 calorie a day deficit with maintenance days here and there and shift 2 - 2.5 by making weight.

    You've 24 hours to rehydrate and it's enough IMO.

    The trouble comes when you've lads trying to shift 5KG in 48 hours. It causes death. Maybe a weigh in 3 days out then another with 24 hours to go would work. Tough nut to crack though.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Though trying to fight dehydrated is a much bigger mistake than dehydrating yourself for a weigh in and photo op, which might discourage some from doing it if they are going to lose anyways. But there will absolutely be some that will try anyways. I'd say they could watch for those and ban them from whatever league it is, though I have a feeling it's more likely to go in the hunger games/squid games direction than safer with the current political climate.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah totally agree on everything there. We would step off the scales and immediately start rehydrating. I personally wouldn't eat until my piss was basically clear and at that stage you haven't had a good meal in two days at least.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There's no good solution IMO

    How about not damaging children's bodies for meaningless high school sports?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    Three things:

    1. I did this as an adult
    2. I'm not fucking American
    3. In no way do I think kids should be doing that and wouldn't let my kids

    I was just relating my experience with making weight so jog on pal.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Unironically yeah. There's more ways for a girl to pick up a restrictive eating disorder (family pressure, wider social pressure, more sports that care about weight like gymnastics and dance) but men can absolutely still get one and this is the most common way. And I really should have specified restrictive because binge eating disorder is pretty common in both sexes. Although orthorexia is also kinda coming into vogue for both sexes.

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