I boxed before, so I'm your guy. When is your bout? Same-day weigh-ins or 24 hours time to rehydrate?It could work, but we need to have more info.

True Tex, I mean you should have your last carbup like 7 days before the bout anyways, CNs will make your weight swing up. The thing about making weight, if you are doing it correctly, is to use water manipulation. You can lose a couple pounds if you are fatter, but in a few weeks don't expect to lose that much real weight. I was walking around at 154 when I cut down to 141. One week, no carbs, heavy water intake, then the last 3 days cut back on food/sodium/water to flush everything out, sweat a few pounds off in the sauna, and voila. The morning of the weigh-ins I was 141, a couple hours later 151. We had two weigh-ins, almost failed the second one. If I had been given 24 hours to rehydrate/fill-up, I would probably have fought at 137.Basically, just wanted to say the weight you will lose will not really be fat anyways, and the closer to your bout the less carbs you should consider having.

1200 calories?! That's crazy, start by upping the food. No need to count the cals really with your activity level, just do CN and see how you progress before even thinking about introducing more carbs in your diet. Hopefully you haven't completely fucked your metabolism into oblivion by now. If you start feeling like shit on ULC, eat more food. Lose a few pounds, then water manipulate during your last week. I'm not talking about the sauna, either, I mean flushing the water out of your body through diet. Anyways, for same-day weigh-ins cutting too many pounds the day of the fight is a recipe for disaster.

Actually, if I were you I'd track my progress with CN to see how quick the pounds are coming off, then maybe introduce a reasonable mid-week backload, but that all depends on how fast you lose the weight. Your performance will suffer from any diet, I have been there, done that. ECA helped me push through the fatigue, but I lacked some pop in my shots and gym sessions had to be scaled back. If you're gonna fight at 168, I would suggest staying closer to that weight in the future, but for now all you can do is damage control.CN is much better for damage control than a typical caloric restriction diet. You didn't make gains back then, but you also didn't lose any strength. If you had done it the chicken and brocoli way, you would have lost some, I guarantee. I wouldn't fiddle around with intra-workout carbs, you could do a MCT/isolate shake though, might not hurt. By messing too much with the formula you risk slowing down the weight/fat loss, and then end up in terrible condition for your fight because you'll have to take drastic measures to make weight. I say lose as much as possible now and as fast as you can, then coast a bit and maybe add a backload to perform/recover better.

Like I said, it's gonna suck a bit at first, but if the weight comes off easily, then you can start adding carbs on another night. You shouldn't be peaking right now anyways, it's just a mental thing. I know it sucks, but it's better to start adding the carbs as you get closer to your fight rather than have to do something drastic at the last minute to lose weight.