I'm a 6'0" 260lb muay thai kickboxer and am trying to drop to 240 for a fight coming up in a couple months. I have just about 110 days to get lose those 20lb. I'm trying this diet, "The Hacker's Diet" (link removed - if people are interested, they will google it) - I was wondering if this diet was good or not? If there was something I could do to lose weight quicker?

I'm currently working out 6 days a week about 6-8 hours a day. I have a big problem with drinking beer which I don't think has much to do with this though and I eat really whatever I want which I stopped currently doing. I started counting calories and have limited myself @ 1800 per day.

I know i'm far from what I should be doing to lose the 20 but I really need to get this done!

Please help!

** I have tried researching this online but really am not good with computers - If you can redirect me or maybe give me a better explination on what I should be doing, please do so. **

You have a problem with beer and think it has nothing to do with weight loss?

16 oz of beer have roughly 200 calories. So if you went out, had 4 or 5 beers, you'd easily consume a 1000+ calories just in beer. Do you include that in your 1800 calories per day?

And alcohol has more side effects - makes you hungry, makes you retain water (supposedly) and some other things that I can't remember right now. But it's not good. So the first thing I would do if I were you - ditch the beer. And ditch the diet while you are at it. Any of those fad diets have the tendency either not to work at all, or to backfire big time once you come off them.

Try changing what you eat, eat healthy, exercise (which I assume you are already doing given the fact that you're kickboxing), and you should be fine.

Yeah ... I'm with San. You have a beer issue, but you don't think that's part of the problem?

I'd say that's pretty much the problem.

Nobody else takes issue with an 1800 calorie diet of whatever he wants on top of 6-8 hours of exercise daily? Seems to me like you need to be eating more, and making sure it is healthy food choices. I work out 45 minutes a day for 5 days and I am losing on around 2400 cals.

Also, I read the other day that any energy in the alcohol will be used by your body for fuel before any other available source. So if you have any undigested food or unused glucose in your system when you drink you are further compounding the issue and adding to your risk of disease later on.

Not that drink is all bad, it just has to be used sensibly and sort of sparingly IMO.

Good point. I sorta stopped dead at the "problem with beer" part.

At 240 lbs (the OPs goal weight), a maintenance figure for someone who is *moderately* active is 3600 calories. (Based on 15 calories per pound of bodyweight.)

For someone who is extremely active, a figure of 18 calories per pound would not be unreasonable - or even 20 calories per pound for someone who works out hard 8 hours a day.

I'd say at a minimum the OP should be eating 3500 calories of HEALTHY food - at least 30% protein, and cut the beer entirely for at least the next 110 days while trying to get in shape for the competition. I don't know of any serious athlete who consumes liquor while in training anyway - not during the weeks prior to their events.