for a few months because I have some rather ambitious goals for a PL meet. My concern is that I always tend to weigh in low to begin with (I compete in 165… my last three meet weigh-ins were 158, 161, and 157). I normally drink 2-3 beers/glasses of wine/scotch a night and quite a bit more on Firday and Saturday nights and normally cut alcohol about 6 weeks out from a meet.
Right now, I’m weighing about 158lbs and slowly regaining my weight since an injury and a day job made me go from 170 to 150 pretty quickly. That said, I’m a little concerned of cutting alcohol and losing more weight.
I’m currently doing a CBL-type diet, so get most of my calories in at night (works best with my schedule anyhow). How would you guys recommend getting the lost calories from drinks in? I doubt I could eat much more… so would I just be replacing beers with protein shakes + some sugar? I’ve got a decent supply of dextrose and malto, but I imagine that’s not going to help me out unless it’s PWO… during the day? Waxy maize…?
I’m curious why you’re concerned about losing more weight? Do you think cutting out the alcohol is going to reduce your strength? If you weigh less because you’ve cut out alcohol, I don’t see where the downside is. Upside would be the potential to compete in a lower class.
EDIT: As far as simply replacing the calories from alcohol, just drink a shake or something. I’m pretty confident your body will use those calories better than what you get from alcohol. I wouldn’t think the specifics of the shake would be that important, you’re only replacing a few hundred calories.
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for a few months because I have some rather ambitious goals for a PL meet. My concern is that I always tend to weigh in low to begin with (I compete in 165… my last three meet weigh-ins were 158, 161, and 157). I normally drink 2-3 beers/glasses of wine/scotch a night and quite a bit more on Firday and Saturday nights and normally cut alcohol about 6 weeks out from a meet.
Right now, I’m weighing about 158lbs and slowly regaining my weight since an injury and a day job made me go from 170 to 150 pretty quickly. That said, I’m a little concerned of cutting alcohol and losing more weight.
I’m currently doing a CBL-type diet, so get most of my calories in at night (works best with my schedule anyhow). How would you guys recommend getting the lost calories from drinks in? I doubt I could eat much more… so would I just be replacing beers with protein shakes + some sugar? I’ve got a decent supply of dextrose and malto, but I imagine that’s not going to help me out unless it’s PWO… during the day? Waxy maize…?[/quote]
Adding liquid fat sources to food is the easiest way to replace calories. Heavy cream in your morning coffee or melted butter or olive with your meals.
Lactose intolerant, so cream/butter probabyl not the ebst idea. Replacing with shots of olive oil could work though.
As for my concerns about losing more weight… I don’t particularly want to compete in a lower weight class again. Not very competitive and I already own the state records there (although they’re low). And being lighter in the class I’m in has always been a litlte detrimental to my performance.