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  • Dave-M
    Dave-M Posts: 206
    I'm 6'3" and I've lost nearly 3 stone by cutting out drink during the week (4 cans/pints a night at weekends), sensible eating (1700 calories a day, mainly chicken/rice/veg) and regular riding (approx 100miles a week).

    I don't feel tired or lacking in energy, although I still have the odd meal out, and would eat more before attempting a longer ride.

    When I was 21 I think I weighed 13.5 stone. I'm now 38 and think this would be my ideal weight.

    I feel great, look great 8) and am getting faster all the time!
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  • badlydrunkboy
    badlydrunkboy Posts: 78
    Dave-M wrote:
    I'm 6'3" and I've lost nearly 3 stone by cutting out drink during the week (4 cans/pints a night at weekends), sensible eating (1700 calories a day, mainly chicken/rice/veg) and regular riding (approx 100miles a week).

    I don't feel tired or lacking in energy, although I still have the odd meal out, and would eat more before attempting a longer ride.

    When I was 21 I think I weighed 13.5 stone. I'm now 38 and think this would be my ideal weight.

    I feel great, look great 8) and am getting faster all the time!

    I'm hoping to follow your lead. I'm 6'3 and just over 17st so am hoping to lose about 2-3 stone by doing 100 miles a week. Might throw in some weights sessions at the gym on the days i dont commute too. Just hope the missus wont get too mardy about all the kit she'll have to wash :wink:
  • rake
    rake Posts: 3,204
    fill your stomach up with vegetables to get rid of the hungry feeling. it will help with your nutrition and energy levels too. the old ones really do work. eat your greens.
  • Essex Man
    Essex Man Posts: 283
    rake wrote:
    fill your stomach up with vegetables to get rid of the hungry feeling. it will help with your nutrition and energy levels too. the old ones really do work. eat your greens.

    This plus lean protein, e.g. chicken. fish to keep you feeling full for longer.
  • Robbie1958
    Robbie1958 Posts: 148
    i've lost six stones in the last 16 months, and five words sum up whats needed to lose weight, Exercise & don't eat crap
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  • rodgers73
    rodgers73 Posts: 2,626
    Buckled_Rims wrote:
    Strangely, I had 4 cans of Stella at the weekend and didn't really enjoy them, probably why I felt crap on Sunday mornings ride.

    +1

    I gave up booze a year ago and now it tastes awful and makes me feel bad. There's no attraction to it for me anymore.
  • pilot_pete
    pilot_pete Posts: 2,120
    Some great advice from virtually all contributers! I used to be an Army PTI and ate anything and everything and drank like a fish. I weighed 11.5 stone wet. But, I could pull chins on a bar until the cows came home, press ups similarly, and running was my thing really....I could 5 minute mile for ages. That, however was in my twenties.

    During my early thirties that all stopped and my excersise regime changed dramatically, but my body was used to the 4-5000 calories a day. It took a number of years before the calorie intake dropped to something more sensible, like 2500, but I still ate what I wanted, when I wanted. From the age of 35 I noticed my matabolism changing and I started to gain weight, ending up at 42 and weighing 14 stone dry! I had got back into fitness and went to the gym 3-4 times a week and got into indoor rowing....which was good for making me very strong, especially cadio vascularly, but didn't seem to shift the fat. I rowed 1,000,000m for charity in 2007 and felt very fit, but still had that little spare tyre hanging around....

    I started cycling earlier this year and have been driven to improve my hill climbing ability....and the easiest way to do that is to lose weight. I realised that I couldn't keep eating what and when I wanted and had to cut down and cut out some things. I love bread and used to eat tons of it, but it is foodstuffs like this that lead to storage of that energy. I have a sedentary job now, so it is even more important to get out on the bike, or get to the gym as many times a week as possible. When I train I am still that twenty year old - pushing like hell and getting the heart rate up so that my head springs a leak!

    My intake has been reduced, especially the crap and it works. I always used to be of the opinion that it was simply calories in vs calorises out and you could eat what you like as long as you did enough excercise, and this still appears true to an extent, its just that as you get older it gets harder to find all the time required to do the excersie required if you pump yourself full of sugar! So there is a place for eating more sensibly and reducing the calories in to help that side of the equation.

    And my top tip? I read it in the Sunday Telegraph and found it to be very good - drink a pint of water before each meal, for two reasons. One, it fills up some of the stomach capacity and helps you to feel fuller earlier, hence you eat a smaller portion and two, most adults walk around in a some sort of state of de-hydration and simply don't drink enough fluids. This certainly helps with that and of course is a pre-requisite for heavy excercise.

    I've lost half a stone in a month and feel and look much better, and my hill climbing? Well, two months ago I was looking at Wiggle for bigger cassettes to get up my usual Peak District climbs but now I can get up most of them easily in second gear!

    PP

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