Defeating the Object!!!!

Biggins

I cycle to try and keep my weight in check as I am prone to be a hefty male specimen!!!!
The problem is, that after every ride I feel absolutely starving and want to eat everything in sight for the rest of the day. THis happens whether I eat loads on the ride or not and I feel like I could eat a horse between two bread vans!!!!

Does anyone else have this problem, if so, how do you combat it?

Cheers fellas.

Slow Downcp

It's par for the course - eat plenty before you start out, eat while you're riding, and then when you get back. Your metabolism will settle down eventually - all you can do in the meantime is make sure that you eat the right foods.

fuzzynavel

Try filling yourself with liquid instead. Water is your friend up to a point. Have something fibrous to soak up the water and give you a long lasting full feeling...Muesli or Weetabix etc works for me. Doesn't matter what time of he day it is...I will eat anything regardless of the time.

ColinJ

Slow Downcp wrote:

It's par for the course - eat plenty before you start out, eat while you're riding, and then when you get back. Your metabolism will settle down eventually - all you can do in the meantime is make sure that you eat the right foods.

I only partially agree with this - it doesn't have to be par for the course (it certainly isn't for me) but I'd agree that it is important to eat properly. Drinking sensibly is probably even more important.

I do hard hilly pennine rides of upto 3 hours on nothing more than a couple of bottles (2/3 water, 1/3 orange juice). I don't eat anything on short rides like those. If I was doing 4-5 hours I'd get through an extra bottle and use carbo-powder in my drinks as well. On longer rides, I eat 'little and often'.

I think the most important thing is to start the day with a good breakfast so that you are not 'playing catch-up' all day. Every morning I have a large bowl of porridge with dried fruit mixed in and a banana chopped over the top of it. It's amazing how long that can fuel me for. If I'm busy during the day, I often forget to eat again until about 20:00! (That's not recommended, but it does show how much nutritional value there is in a bowl of porridge.)

fooshnicken

I'd agree with the good breakfast, when I cycle to work my eating regime is something like this;

I tend to have a bowl of porridge for breakfast at about 7:30 and two cups of tea by the time I leave the house for my cycle to work. I usually add whatever I fancy to my porridge but most recently it's been two tea spoons of marmalade and two small squares of dark chocolate grated over the top and then all mixed together. I can't take the credit for that particular choice, I read it in a cookbook.

Anyway back to the point, I find that this keeps me and my belly contented until about 12:00 or so. Lunch I'll eat some sandwiches and have a cup-a-soup and eat a banana and an apple during the day.

Then when I get home in the evening I'll eat around 8:00 or once my daughters in bed. If I feel hungry at any time during the day I will try to eat fruit or nuts.

Lastly I'm not thin, or even well defined for that matter. I have a bit of a gut but I do feel a lot fitter than I did a couple of years ago.