Prop Bet: Lose 15 pounds of body weight in 72 hrs.

[MonkeeMan]

This sounds like one of those bets that is easy to win but tough to collect.

FWIW, years ago I remember Steve Carlton losing 12 pounds of fluid during a pitching outing on a hot day. No fasting or saunas, no massive intake of fluids before the weigh-in.

[roundest]

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A couple of friends of mine are very close to agreeing to terms on the subject prop bet for $10,000. Jim has said that he can lose 15 pounds in 3 days. Jim can use any method he needs to lose the weight including using laxatives, sauna, drugs, etc. Jim is about 6ft. and 200 pounds so he is not overweith to begin with.

Tom on the other side of the bet was negotiating that Jim would have to eat at one Burger King Whopper each day of the bet. This point has not yet been agreed on but is still on the table for negotiation.

Any thoughts on who has the best of it or methods you might use to lose this much weight this fast.

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Do what you can to weasel on in some of this action. It's easy money.

[craig r]

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I don't think this can be done. But I wouldn't put my money where my mouth is as drugging it up can REALLY skew this to an almost possible - Maybe staying up for 3 days, eating nothing but doing speed and excersizing would do the trick.

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I don't think one could do all three of those things. He really wouldn't be able to drink very much water and doing speed for 3 days with no water is very dangerous. Now, you throw the exercise in and he would be in really bad shape. This doesn't account for how mentally challenging this would become. Hell, I think the better prop bet would be if he could go 3 days with no water, no food, speed, and some form of exercise over that time (like maybe running 30 miles total). If he doesn't make it because he dies, well you don't have to pay him. And if he does make it, well that was money well earned.

craig

[poincaraux]

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i think it'd be more interesting to gaine 15 pounds in 3 days.

i think i lost 7 pounds one wrestling practice. 15 for a 200 guy is childs play.

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Yet another wrestler chiming in. Like everyone else said, easy bet. Wear a rubber suit, blah blah blah. Does anybody have any experience trying to *gain* this kind of weight? It still doesn't seem too tough (I've gained over 10lbs in under a week before), but I've never tried that much that quickly.

[Alobar]

actually you can do it with like 5 gallons, but whatver....it was supposed to be a joke

Cutting that much weight isnt that hard in that much time if you know what you are doing. Still, its not healthy and it comes with risks

[david050173]

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]HOW TO WIN 10 GRAND

1. Take out a life insurance policfy for 10K

2.Drink 3 gallons of water before you weigh and the bet begin

2.die because drinking that much water will kill you

3. collect on policy

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FYP

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Oh jeez, are you one of those guys that think you can OD on water? Get real, it takes like 50 gallons in 24 hours. I easily drink 2 gallons a day when Im hardcore lifting, and this isnt much to me.

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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...GNSB576121.DTL

2 gallons a day is a lot different than chugging 3 gallons. Over a day you will suck in enough electoytes to prevent death.

The other key is to make sure you have a big dump stored up when you get wayed. There is a thread somewhere in OOT with some pictures where the log has to way 5 lbs [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

I can't believe no one has offered this yet...I'll do it for 5k.

[DesertCat]

In college our 142 lb weight class team captain would regularly cut 24 lbs in 24 hours. And that's at 5% body fat. Any 200lb fatty who can't do 15 lbs in three days is a p**y...

[Rootabager]

diuretics?
i dont know anyone has already said this. Body builders do them before competition.