How to cut water weight, day before weigh in?
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OMG.
I already lost EIGHT POUNDS on my own , the right way. 8 pounds i PLAN to keep off permanently .
you guys don't get the point of why i am trying to shred water weight JUST for TOMROROW.
but that's okay.
thanks to the few who gave helpful tips0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.0
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That was a pretty classy statement..
She just wants to dump water weight for one day.
Not a big deal.0 -
no... when i tried responding i copied everyone's responce accidentally. that is why that long message showed up . when i caught it , i deleted it,. or edited it, i should say.
oh, lol i gotcha0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
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some of you guys are pretty hilarious . all I want to know is how to lose water weight , I don't need the lectures about cheating on the challenge but since you guys are putting so much thought into that part , let me inform you the competition is between by boss and I . I started at 144 and I weigh 136 . she started at 163 and has to be 150 by tomorrow to win . winner gets 380 dollars . since the beginning I have been eating healthy at 1250 ish calories and working out. My competitor started the lemon maple syrup cleanse to win since we NEVER said we couldn't cheat . she gave up midway so now I'm competing with myself . if I don't meet my exact goal then neither of us wins ... This is why I am trying to cheat a little .
Anyways .... I am proud of my weight loss because it was hard for me to lose what I have so far so I don't feel ashamed of cheating for the last three pounds just for tomorrow, then after that , going back yo my regular healthy schedule
Wow really?! It is great that you lost 8 pounds already and you should be proud. Congrats on that, but you make no sense. We all get that you want to shed the water weight by tomorrow. We get what you are saying, however if your boss already quit midway then neither of you are winners anyway. The bet is over. Just forget it even existed.
Edit: this is funny actually now that she explained it. Oh well do whatever makes you happy OP!! Good luck
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LYNCH MOB! She's doing it THE WRONG WAY! KILL! REPORT POST! SCOLD! :mad:
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Good luck, OP. Let us know if you win.0 -
lol well lucky for me what matters is that i am proud of my accomplishment. if you looked down on it , that's on you.0
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I am not touching the cheating/not cheating with a ten foot pole.
Laxatives can lead to electrolyte imbalance.
Excessive water intake (emphasis on excessive) can lead to electrolyte imbalance.
Water pills can lead to electrolyte imbalance.
Electrolyte imbalances can cause all types of trouble including muscular conductivity issues (your heart is a muscle and disrhythmias are possible).
Informed choices... do what you want, but I wouldn't risk my health for $380 (or whatever it was).0 -
If you're seriously considering using a laxative so you can literally *kitten* your way to a victory in some stupid competition then you should probably re-evaluate things.0
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I don't know if this is true for weight or not, but before tape/measuring a lot of people tend to have success with Preparation H rubbed all over their torso, and sleeping with cellophane wrapped around it the night prior. It "shrinks" your skin0
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I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
You have to be kidding, it's a weigh in for a contest? "chill"
Fighters do this every fight and they're fine.
Drink a lot of water today and don't drink or eat anything after midnight. Funny that sounds like what you do for a pre-operation.0 -
If you are really (!!!) serious about it, drink destilled water, half a gallon will do the trick, 3lbs should be no problem.
Although many people claim (for whatever reasons) it could kill you ... it won't. I did it myself, alive and well.
do you mean salt water maybe?
distilled water is just sterilized water... not sure why anyone would say that could kill you
Distilled water is just that - distilled - which removes all the minerals and salts. Your body is constantly striving to maintain specific levels of sodium and potassium inside and outside of your cells. If you drink large amounts of distilled water and do not consume anything else, you will deplete your sodium and potassium levels to a point where you will die.
A teenage boy in Japan did this a few years back. I remember my Japanese lab mate being upset about it and talking about it. the boy thought he was doing a good thing by drinking "pure" water.
It is never a good idea to drink distilled water if you are not eating. You can actually make yourself sick. I have no doubt you can get away with it for a day or two, but don't say you weren't warned about it. I would imagine the muscle cramping would be intense but maybe you don't feel it because your nerves and brain start to malfunction as well. Fun times to win a contest.0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
You have to be kidding, it's a weigh in for a contest? "chill"
Fighters do this every fight and they're fine.
Drink a lot of water today and don't drink or eat anything after midnight. Funny that sounds like what you do for a pre-operation.
Fighters get punched in the face for money and sport, they are not the best example.
If you think that taking extreme measures to lose water weight will never be harmful I'm sorry but you are wrong, if you take it too far you can actually hurt yourself and where that line lies can be hard to define.
Nutmegoreo approached this much better than I in that regard. I got more heated than I should have, I was already annoyed by something else but that is no excuse. I do not think however it is appropriate to encourage someone to do something potentially (read potentially) dangerous for the purpose of money. Did I over react? Sure. Do I think the opposite is true and it is "fine"? No, I don't think it is fine. No doctor would encourage this, why should we?0 -
thread about to be locked by the moderator soon.0
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If you are really (!!!) serious about it, drink destilled water, half a gallon will do the trick, 3lbs should be no problem.
Although many people claim (for whatever reasons) it could kill you ... it won't. I did it myself, alive and well.
do you mean salt water maybe?
distilled water is just sterilized water... not sure why anyone would say that could kill you
Distilled water is just that - distilled - which removes all the minerals and salts. Your body is constantly striving to maintain specific levels of sodium and potassium inside and outside of your cells. If you drink large amounts of distilled water and do not consume anything else, you will deplete your sodium and potassium levels to a point where you will die.
A teenage boy in Japan did this a few years back. I remember my Japanese lab mate being upset about it and talking about it. the boy thought he was doing a good thing by drinking "pure" water.
It is never a good idea to drink distilled water if you are not eating. You can actually make yourself sick. I have no doubt you can get away with it for a day or two, but don't say you weren't warned about it. I would imagine the muscle cramping would be intense but maybe you don't feel it because your nerves and brain start to malfunction as well. Fun times to win a contest.
FYI - if you just drank water (non-distilled) and eat nothing at all you would also die0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
You have to be kidding, it's a weigh in for a contest? "chill"
Fighters do this every fight and they're fine.
Drink a lot of water today and don't drink or eat anything after midnight. Funny that sounds like what you do for a pre-operation.
Fighters get punched in the face for money and sport, they are not the best example.
If you think that taking extreme measures to lose water weight will never be harmful I'm sorry but you are wrong, if you take it too far you can actually hurt yourself and where that line lies can be hard to define.
Nutmegoreo approached this much better than I in that regard. I got more heated than I should have, I was already annoyed by something else but that is no excuse. I do not think however it is appropriate to encourage someone to do something potentially (read potentially) dangerous for the purpose of money. Did I over react? Sure. Do I think the opposite is true and it is "fine"? No, I don't think it is fine. No doctor would encourage this, why should we?
i guess you missed the part about it being one night, and it being 100% identical to surgery prep. which my doctor insisted i do lol0 -
called water intoxication.0
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Whoops responded under the wrong fitnesspal account
Reported for multiple accounts...
Plot twist....
CRo84 (her boyfriend) deactivated "his" account
lol the PIs are on the case0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
You have to be kidding, it's a weigh in for a contest? "chill"
Fighters do this every fight and they're fine.
Drink a lot of water today and don't drink or eat anything after midnight. Funny that sounds like what you do for a pre-operation.
Fighters get punched in the face for money and sport, they are not the best example.
If you think that taking extreme measures to lose water weight will never be harmful I'm sorry but you are wrong, if you take it too far you can actually hurt yourself and where that line lies can be hard to define.
Nutmegoreo approached this much better than I in that regard. I got more heated than I should have, I was already annoyed by something else but that is no excuse. I do not think however it is appropriate to encourage someone to do something potentially (read potentially) dangerous for the purpose of money. Did I over react? Sure. Do I think the opposite is true and it is "fine"? No, I don't think it is fine. No doctor would encourage this, why should we?
i guess you missed the part about it being one night, and it being 100% identical to surgery prep. which my doctor insisted i do lol
I'm assuming for your surgery prep you were just told to fast. Not take diuretics, not run around in a trash bag, not take laxatives, not drink gallons of water and then stop drinking water all together. 24 hours is sufficient time to cause yourself harm with electrolyte imbalances if you decide you really want to "commit" to losing water weight in a short period of time.
Will fasting for 20 hours cause harm? No. Will it cause 3 pounds of water weight loss in an already small woman? Probably not. Can you cause harm by trying some of the things listed/suggested in 24 hours time? Yeah, you honestly can. I just think its better to not encourage it at all but if you want me to say you can intermittently fast or not drink water for a period of close to a day and be okay then yeah okay sure.0 -
so is this topic about me posting under his account or water weight?
some of the people here act immature.
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thank you for the advise !
i'm thinking since it might be too late for the water pills, i can just buy the laxative like you suggested, do cardio with a trashbag under my clothes and take an salt bath before bed/ in the am... im hopefull those three do it for me !!
While each of these is fairly unhealthy on their own, I definitely wouldn't advise doing all of them combined. My boyfriend used to do Judo competitively and they would use these methods to make before-fight weigh in (this is before they changed the rules re this). It was so bad that many fighters had to be nearly carried over to the scale and could barely stand long enough to get the official weight.
If you do all of these methods combined I have a feeling you feel too much like garbage to even go into work to claim your "victory" for the weight lost.0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
You have to be kidding, it's a weigh in for a contest? "chill"
Fighters do this every fight and they're fine.
Drink a lot of water today and don't drink or eat anything after midnight. Funny that sounds like what you do for a pre-operation.
Fighters get punched in the face for money and sport, they are not the best example.
If you think that taking extreme measures to lose water weight will never be harmful I'm sorry but you are wrong, if you take it too far you can actually hurt yourself and where that line lies can be hard to define.
Nutmegoreo approached this much better than I in that regard. I got more heated than I should have, I was already annoyed by something else but that is no excuse. I do not think however it is appropriate to encourage someone to do something potentially (read potentially) dangerous for the purpose of money. Did I over react? Sure. Do I think the opposite is true and it is "fine"? No, I don't think it is fine. No doctor would encourage this, why should we?
i guess you missed the part about it being one night, and it being 100% identical to surgery prep. which my doctor insisted i do lol
I'm assuming for your surgery prep you were just told to fast. Not take diuretics, not run around in a trash bag, not take laxatives, not drink gallons of water and then stop drinking water all together.
no he didn't, nor was any of that mentioned in the post you were replying to0 -
so is this topic about me posting under his account or water weight?
some of the people here act immature.
seriously
check out the link i posted then go to her blog. she didn't use any laxitives etc0 -
I'm going to give this a rest. OP, just take care of yourself...its about health not money. Good luck.
You have to be kidding, it's a weigh in for a contest? "chill"
Fighters do this every fight and they're fine.
Drink a lot of water today and don't drink or eat anything after midnight. Funny that sounds like what you do for a pre-operation.
Fighters get punched in the face for money and sport, they are not the best example.
If you think that taking extreme measures to lose water weight will never be harmful I'm sorry but you are wrong, if you take it too far you can actually hurt yourself and where that line lies can be hard to define.
Nutmegoreo approached this much better than I in that regard. I got more heated than I should have, I was already annoyed by something else but that is no excuse. I do not think however it is appropriate to encourage someone to do something potentially (read potentially) dangerous for the purpose of money. Did I over react? Sure. Do I think the opposite is true and it is "fine"? No, I don't think it is fine. No doctor would encourage this, why should we?
i guess you missed the part about it being one night, and it being 100% identical to surgery prep. which my doctor insisted i do lol
I'm assuming for your surgery prep you were just told to fast. Not take diuretics, not run around in a trash bag, not take laxatives, not drink gallons of water and then stop drinking water all together. 24 hours is sufficient time to cause yourself harm with electrolyte imbalances if you decide you really want to "commit" to losing water weight in a short period of time.
Will fasting for 20 hours cause harm? No. Will it cause 3 pounds of water weight loss in an already small woman? Probably not. Can you cause harm by trying some of the things listed/suggested in 24 hours time? Yeah, you honestly can. I just think its better to not encourage it at all but if you want me to say you can intermittently fast or not drink water for a period of close to a day and be okay then yeah okay sure.
Additionally, a preoperative preparation is medically supervised (doctor prescribed) for a procedure which is medically needed (in most cases). The doctors are aware of the risks being taken by the patient, and have considered the risk-benefit ratio and determined that the benefits outweigh the risks. Very different scenario.
OP, I hope you take the time to consider the risks vs. the benefits.0 -
so is this topic about me posting under his account or water weight?
some of the people here act immature.
seriously
check out the link i posted then go to her blog. she didn't use any laxitives etc
what link and what blog?0 -
My new motto: Sh*tting my way to victory!0
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so is this topic about me posting under his account or water weight?
some of the people here act immature.
seriously
check out the link i posted then go to her blog. she didn't use any laxitives etc
what link and what blog?http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/cagewriter/ronda-rousey-cut-17-pounds-one-day-prove-214523472--mma.html
like i said , very dedicaited.
she dropped near 18 in one night, still had the will to beat the opposing coach in a physical challenge
i guess its technically just a URL not a link lol.
there's a link to her blog in the article0
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