If You Had To Or Else!!!!!!

[Iron Monkey]

What other health issues did your boy have? This ain't quite the whole story. I watched a kid cut 10 in about 2hrs of practice and keep it off for 2 days until the match; he wasn't feeling great (and that **** ain't healthy) but he wrestled his match and won. Watched another kid cut from 140 to 125 (127 b/c it was after Feb) since I was cutting to 119 (121) b/c that's about how much I weighed anyway. He ate little more than a bowl or two of applesauce per day while still going to practice and limited his water consumption. Night before we left for Hershey he tried to eat a lollipop and had to dip it in water first b/c he wasn't producing much saliva. He weighed in successfully upon arrival and went on to maintain that weight for the team tournament and all the way through states. Time to cut weight: 1 week. Health? NOT AT ALL...cardiac arrest? Necessary hospitalization? Not at all. While doing dumb **** to your body is really ill advised (you only get one after all), the body is still capable of putting up with a lot of crap. I imagine he must have had another condition or contributing factor (other than initial body fat %).

Well, it was the way he did it, I believe... He tried to do it regularly for the first two days with no luck, and then went to the gym on the third day where he dressed up in full winter clothing, and started running sprints over and over in order to sweat the remainder off...

I never really asked him if he had any other conditions, if I ever see him again I'll be sure to.

[Got_Fenced_In]

yeah, you and your random 10lb weight fluctuations should be quit

The rest of us will search for the magical weight loss elixir

He's not the only one, actually. I can fluctuate up to ten pounds in a week, week and a half... Not trying, I mean. It just depends on what I've eaten, whether I'm drinking as much water as I should be (I forget sometimes x_x) and how active I've been.

But, then again, I'm a teenager. Fast metabolism.

[fatfencer]

What I'm looking for really

is what would you do?

Specific programs and ideas people. That's why I posted as I did to eliminate any 'can't be done' kinds of things.

What would you do to get it done?

AS I suspected, many of you will try to prove it cannot be done as opposed to spending that same intellectual energy trying to come up with ways it can be obtained.

Many of you probably suffer from looking less than your ideal. Perhaps this is why? I know why I do. I happen to enjoy food immensely, certainly more so than I do training.

Please take the thread seriously, and for what it is, a sincere desire to see what seemingly intelligent people would do if faced with a seemingly insurmountable task.

What would YOU do, dear reader, if you had no choice but to comply?

Fatfencer

[D'Art]

Laxatives might help you get rid of a pound or two, if you're really unlucky.

[seven6ty]

What's "10 pounds of vanity fat"? I surely can't be the only one confused by that, right?

[fatfencer]

Glad you asked

many people are sort of close to their ideal weight kind of like those settlers who chose to stop in Utah and not continue on to California.

Maybe they are 15 lbs overweight, but not so it really hinders their life or their fencing... but its still maybe 10 lbs of lard and 5 lbs of water.

That's where I was coming from.

FF

[Delta]

The vanity weight is not terribly hard to lose, like bigdawg and seak said, but keep in mind that it's difficulty lies with the muscle/fat ratio of the person with respect to weight. Losing fat becomes more difficult as the muscle to fat ratio increases, so vanity weight, while your expected numbers are doable, may be harder from one person to the next.
The trick is to "shock" your body into a routine it's not used to. For example, I lost a total of twelve pounds doing a nine day backpacking trip. Pack loads were anywhere from 40-50 lbs a day, and we backpacked about 14 miles a day. Before then, I had never done anything quite like the stairmaster of a mountain.
Another example that seems to have caused quite a stir in the body image market is the PX90 or something. It's a work out regimen that lasts you 90 days (or something like it) and its workouts are varied, so your body never has a chance to adjust to the different types of exercises.
My only warning is that my backpacking trip took burned only fat, the PX90 program not only burns fat, but builds muscle, but you said you don't have that long. Either way, the concept is the same: shock body, do not let it adjust.