I'm New: My Adventure into the World of Olympic Lifting: Skinny Supa

For those of you who know weightlifting, or me, or a little of both, you probably know there are different weight classes for both men and women in Olympic lifting. I am in the super-heavyweight class: 75+ that means I compete against anyone 165 pounds and up. Most recently I am 174 pounds or 79kilos. When I compete at National meets in the 75+ weight class I am the smallest one by a TON (pun intended!). Being 20, 30, 40, 50 kilos lighter than everyone else makes it nearly impossible to be competitive with those girls. So it makes most sense to drop the extra 10ish pounds and compete with girls closer in weight. And that's what I'm doing. Dropping the next 10 pounds for the Trinity meet and keeping that weight off for the American Open at the beginning of December. It's completely do-able...

I've toyed with different ideas on how to most successfully drop weight for the next meets. I've thought maybe a little public humiliation via my blog could be helpful.. but I think I'm too chicken for that! My idea for public humiliation was to put pictures of myself on my blog in the typical "before" and "after" fashion that is so prevalent with any weight-loss ad or gimmick. But like I said I don't think that kind of humiliation would be good! I'd probably start emotionally eating- and that's going in the wrong direction!

With that said, I am 17 days away from my next meet and I have 4 kilos to lose over the next 17 days. When I was dropping weight for Nationals this summer Ellyn said something to me that stuck... Sometimes being hungry keeps you hungry... At first I thought that was the weirdest thing ever. and sounded miserable. (it still is miserable actually) But in order to reach my own goals and the potential I believe I have.. dropping weight is vital, crucial, of the utmost importance, I think you get the idea... For the next 17 days there will be a blog every day. even if it is just a number. I am trying to be more accountable with my eating and my weight and this is going to be one of the ways I keep track of it all.. and y'all can too! teamwork...? lol

Here are more videos from the last week...