So a brief comment in la Potkey's blog entry on Justin Sorenson's ankle injury states,

"He weighed in this morning at 203.4 after tipping the scales at 228 last Wednesday.

Yes, that's a 24.6-pound loss in just over seven days. But don't call the diet gurus for a book deal just yet.

"It helps that I had my wisdom teeth out and have been doing soccer conditioning," Sorensen said."

I'm not a dietician, so maybe I'm up in the night, but does anyone else think this is totally insane? It sure doesn't seem the best way to keep in condition.

While not the wisest thing to do, most of that is probably water weight, and he'll probably put on 10 lbs or so in the hours after he weighs in just by rehydrating.

snoscythe wrote:

While not the wisest thing to do, most of that is probably water weight, and he'll probably put on 10 lbs or so in the hours after he weighs in just by rehydrating.

It is not the healthiest thing at all to do, but with the lack of desire for food that comes with having your wisdom teeth out, it is not suprising. If you were sick for a week and did not feel like eating, you could easily drop 15-20lbs.

In my younger days as a D1 college wrestler, it was nothing to lose 12-14 lbs in a 24 hour period. Its all water weight.

isn't that called dehydration? over 20 lbs of water seems like a lot to me.

When I wrestled in HS my senior year I started the season at 138 lbs for my first match in the 141 lbs weight bracket. Since 135 was that close I wrestled 135 from then on. Well I grew. Before the first practice after thanksgiving I weighed 148. I usually maintained my weight at 141. By not eating (I lived on slim fast) the day of the match I easily managed 135.

Two weeks after the season ended I weighed myself. 165...

It can be done.

FYI I weigh 210 now at 3.5% body fat. I sprint to the Y to warm up for my 20 mile mountain runs every day...

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