This will the first year I can go to Nationals-yay! I’m doing things a little different for this tournament, however. Usually I try to lose about ten pounds to get into one particular weight class, barely eating anything up to the tournament, wistfully looking at the smaller weight division.
Not this time.
I am not making any active attempt to lose weight. Granted I’m eating sensibly and not diving into a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, but I’m just not going to worry about my weight. Hell, I’m seriously considering registering for the heaviest weight class there is. A bit extreme, but I am set this tournament on walking onto that mat feeling good and ready to go and not worrying about the scale. Someone asked if that’s what I was willing to trade- fighting heavier women in exchange for less stress at scale, and to be perfectly honest….
Yes. Yes I am.
Yeah, I tend to put myself one weight class up because I want to eat a decent breakfast the morning of, and drink as much water as I want, and I don’t want to get DQ’ed if I wake up and find that Aunt Flo came to visit and brought four pounds of overnight bloat along in her suitcase. That crap of not even being able to DRINK WATER on comp morning is for the birds.
My last comp, I weighed in light enough to have gone *TWO* brackets below the one I’d signed up in… and then my only opponent in no-gi was OVERWEIGHT (I agreed to fight her anyway, otherwise they would have DQ’ed her), so I ended up fighting her at a 3-bracket disadvantage. She beat me, and I do wonder if that made a difference.