Anyone else binge eat?

[biscuitsbrah]

After a hard 5-8 weeks of dieting and weight cutting, I always tell myself I will reverse diet and keep my weight low. So that I can make the next cut easier and eventually drop a weight class. Yet I always end up binge eating and gaining a shitload of weight fast. It sucks because now I have to diet harder for my next fight and cut more weight, making me want to eat more after. It’s like an endless cycle.

I used to never have a problem with food. MMA and weight cutting has given me a minor eating disorder

 

[Renard]

The limit for each cut should be 10% of your body weight. If you lose more than that, rubberbanding back to a higher weight becomes more likely.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

The limit for each cut should be 10% of your body weight. If you lose more than that, rubberbanding back to a higher weight becomes more likely.

Cut as in water or dieting or as a whole

 

[Renard]

Cut as in water or dieting or as a whole

You can substract the water weight. You put it back on the second you start eating normally anyway. It's the loss of too much fat that freaks the body out. So let's say 10% is 20 lbs for you, and you lost 10 lbs water weight the first week, you would stop at 30 lbs.

 

[Trabaho]

Why drop a category, for the reach height factor ?

Maybe you're forcing yourself too low.

 

[biscuitsbrah]

Why drop a category, for the reach height factor ?

Maybe you're forcing yourself too low.

My frame is small, especially my height. I train with an ex-UFC flyweight and although I weigh more, his frame is bigger than me by a good amount. All the flyweights are just skinny mofos

 

[Slothbroth]

Your body wants to be bigger and stronger. Quit starving yourself.

 

[ChessJitsu]

I stopped recently. Went on some serious weight cuts for BJJ tournaments (completely unnecessary but I was overweight) and it's like my gut fixed itself because I was eating eggs, chia seeds, flag seeds, oatmeals, fruits, vegetables, etc.