Then I tore my pec clean off the bone. After that, I stopped competing in powerlifting (although I still lifted) and re-arranged my priorities. I didn't have to force-feed myself anymore and as a result, started to lose some weight. Then I got married in 2012. Then had a baby soon after. All the while, I kept losing weight simply because I didn't have to eat big anymore.
I joined a jiu jitsu place in June of 2012 (Elite Team East Bay in El Cerrito) and was really having a great time. When I started, my body weight was around 250. As the months went by, I kept losing weight. If you've ever done jiu jitsu, you know it's really tough and involves a lot of hard work. Eventually, I got down to around 220lbs at the beginning of 2015. At this point, my wife and I got the amazing news that we were expecting another child. So, I decided that this would be a good chance for me to compete in a jiu jitsu tournament. I picked a lower weight class (208lbs with a gi on) so I had to cut weight to about 203lbs. With the tournament happening on June 20th, I had several months to clean up my diet a bit and drop the 17lbs.
Well, it is about time. I have a little over a week to go and this is the result:
My body weight is around 200lbs and I'm the leanest I've ever been in my life. I weighed 165lbs at one point in college, but I didn't have any muscle so while I was light in weight, I wasn't really lean.
Here are a few pictures detailing the results of about 5 months of hard training and a pretty good diet:
I'm going to certainly try to lose a little more body fat after the competition and see how lean I can get BUT, who knows what will happen. Without a competition to keep me motivated, it will be tough. I am pretty sure that this will be my best chance to do this because when kid #2 comes, I sure as hell won't be worried about diet or exercise.
