Part 2/3 for Competition **updated**

Part one was just hard training. Just.

Part two was making sure I hit my weight class. And thankfully I did today!! I had a choice to try and weigh either 150 lbs or 134 lbs. As I normally walk around at 140 now I decided to go down in weight. AKA Super Feather, 122-134lbs.

I decided the best ways for me to do this was to make sure I had some physical exercise for about a hour every day of the week but Sunday. At least. Some days I had almost 5 hours. I also planned on limiting my calories to about 1,200 to at most 1,500 in a day's worth of food. I knew this final part would take discipline.

I started before Thanksgiving. No soda pop. No candy. No meals over 400 calories in total. No fast food. Very little refined white flour or sugar. (two of my favorite things!) I gave myself Thanksgiving as a totally free day, knowing I would need to have some sort of a release over what was originally a two week plan.

To help with me, taking to heart the maxim "that which we measure, improves" I put a chart up next to the scale with time and the bottom and weight along the vertical axis. And I highlited what was basically a linear regression to show me how my progress should look when I completed my weigh in this morning.

Using numbers rounded to the whole, I started at 139 lbs. Before Thanksgiving I had made it down to 134 on occasion. My day of reckoning came the day after Thanksgiving....142lbs!! I couldn't even bring myself to accurately record the number when I saw it. So I played South Korean genetic researcher and flubbed the number, noting 140.5 or so on my chart. Isn't it sad how we lie to ourselves sometimes?

Now I had to start over again but from an even greater amount of weight to lose! But having done it once I knew I could do it again. The days of only Ensure, fruit, vegetables and a handful of raw nuts paid off!

I woke up this morning and was hovering just above 134. I had planned to go to Bikram yoga this morning, knowing that I could easily loose 2 to 3 pounds just in water if needed. So I went, did the class with only average effort. I stepped on their scale after class and it read 135!! What?? As an analog scale I decided to calm down and not trust it, knowing from use of the digital scale at home before and after yoga and other exercise where I probably really was with my weight.

Twelve minutes later I am at a packed parking lot at the Pacific Beach OTM store. Heck, I even saw a guy there in line to weigh who was at yoga, trying to sweat off some weight as well!! HAHAHA. It was funny when we recognized each other. (he is not in my division, so I could be nice)

I take off my shirt and shoes.... Look down at the scale.....

132.4 pounds!! YES! I was one and a half pounds under what would have disqualified me. Phew! Mission accomplished.

With that I downed the Cytomax in my truck. Drove to Jamba Juice and drank 16oz of fresh squeezed orange juice. Then home for cookies, jerky and Gatorade.

Part 3 will be tomorrow, at the actual competition. Seeing if I can actually win something! I'm tired of second place medals!! And I have never submitted anyone either in competition, just having won on points or advantages.

And now of course, the pictures!

I measure off the charts!!
getting closer!
132.4 lbs never looked soo good!!

**update** Did you ever read adventure and survival stories as a kid? I did and I still quite enjoy them. I always remember reading about how people who had not eaten much if at all in days would gorge themselves and then suffer the consequences. I am that guy currently.