What I learnt from losing 12kg in 6 weeks
A unique look into the world of a weight-cutting, female Cage Fighter
To give you guys a little bit of perspective, the picture above was me, but about five or 6kg heavier than the final weight I would be. Now this story of weight loss occurred about two and a half years ago and is actually a fairly obscure one. Not because I was a weight-cutting female athlete, or even a combat athlete but because I was a female MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) cage-fighter in England, which is pretty rare. This rarity is actually what lead to the series of events that caused me to lose about 12kg in the space of 6 weeks. Why? Because unsurprisingly, not that many women have the dream of becoming a professional cage fighter. Shocker.
I am 175cm tall (taller than average for a woman and thus heavy), my comfy, active, try to be healthy but don’t scrupulously watch what I eat weight is about 75 kg. BMI would tell you this is just about overweight. I learnt that BMI was definitely not a reliable metric to follow, but more on this in a future article. The point of all my explaining is that I was (and still am) bigger and heavier than the average woman in the UK. You can imagine how with a small pool of women interested, this further narrowed my options.
