Sorry to whine publicly, but this is frustrating as well.
I've spent the last month getting down from 142 to 134 for a BJJ tournament this Saturday. With a lot of help from the people in this forum and their recommendations, I tipped the scales at 135 earlier this week despite suboptimal conditions (I was away on business for two weeks). I was so proud of myself and totally jacked about competing.
However since I've gotten back it's one thing after another. The first day I had diarrhea. I had that for two days and lost a ton of fluid in my poop and just generally felt dehydrated. At some point I shot some vinegar and the diarrhea stopped. Yay. I still wasn't really feeling well enough to go to BJJ, so I went to a hot yoga class. The yoga class was very, very tough and I felt dizzy walking out of there.
The next morning I felt feverish and just general blah. And over the last 36 hours or so it's just getting worse. This morning I woke up with a fever of just under 102. I've simultaneously got chills and feel hot; my body hurts just from sitting up, I just generally feel fuckin awful. At this rate I don't see myself being able to outgrapple a spastic 8-year-old, much less a grown adult who is skilled in making my limbs bend in ways they're not supposed to go.
Even if I do feel better by Saturday, I'm still going to have lost a ton of strength from being sick a full week and I won't be competing at 100%. That pisses me off because I really feel like I worked hard and deserved better
I do however want to take this opportunity to thank everyone in the D&S forum. Through reading the stickies (and sublinks from stickies) and searching through all the old posts I've found a wealth of information about anything I would ever possibly want to know about diet and nutrition. I had held so many misconceptions about dieting and losing weight and the information here has been invaluable. I would never have made the weight in the first place if it wasn't for you guys, so thanks to everyone.
