Ive reached a milestone in my cycling "career"

mudcow007

thats been since March this year...i still havent lost a pound of weight

UndercoverElephant

Good work, Mudcow. I wouldn't worry too much about weight, I suspect you'll have dropped inches from the middle.

suzyb

mudcow007 wrote:

thats been since March this year...i still havent lost a pound of weight

I'm not the only one.

Long_Time_Lurker

I've lost weight - just on the wrong bits.
I do between 70 to 120 miles a week and my gut is still the same size.
However, my arms and legs are truning into twigs. :oops:

whitebait01

How?! I've been riding since May, doing about 90mi a week commuting, I've done about 1170mi so far and I've lost almost 2 stone (was 6'6" and 16st), dropped about 4" from waist size and my quads have become a tad inappropriate.

Whenever I'm riding I'm putting in as much effort as possible and going as fast as I can though (whilst staying safe of course).

asprilla

I was 72kg in Jan and I'm 72kg 5,500 miles later.

However, I'm wider on the legs and narrower on the waist than I was.

bdave262000

Long Time Lurker wrote:

I've lost weight - just on the wrong bits.
I do between 70 to 120 miles a week and my gut is still the same size.
However, my arms and legs are truning into twigs. :oops:

Tell me about it, I've lost 4 stone in two years (cycling 100 - 125 miles a week) but its all dissapeared from my top half. All my shirts collars and sleeves are too big, its the bit round the middle that doesn't want to shift.

bails87

I had no fat to start with, I'm as skinny as ever, after >2000 miles since the start of the year, and however many miles in the 2 years before that.

Kieran_Burns

I'm just a fat bast*rd.

Thanks.

I hate you all.

jzed

I'll pass 7000 miles for the year this evening and I have put 1 stone on. (Post-Marmotte feasting and beers I suspect)

Good winter's training and should be looking at some good form next year.

gbsahne001

>10,000 so far and am only just starting to lose weight, suspect that might be due to stopping alcohol in August though.

Rich158

Asprilla wrote:

I was 72kg in Jan and I'm 72kg 5,500 miles later.

However, I'm wider on the legs and narrower on the waist than I was.

Welcome to my world, I'm trying to work out how to drop the final 5kg to hit 65kg and feel like a real hill climbing specialist

mudcow007

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I'm just a fat bast*rd.

Thanks.

I hate you all.

maybe its a tricross thing?

Kieran_Burns

mudcow007 wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

I'm just a fat bast*rd.

Thanks.

I hate you all.

maybe its a tricross thing?

Nope.

Crisps and no willpower....

suzyb

whitebait01 wrote:

How?! I've been riding since May, doing about 90mi a week commuting, I've done about 1170mi so far and I've lost almost 2 stone (was 6'6" and 16st), dropped about 4" from waist size and my quads have become a tad inappropriate.

Whenever I'm riding I'm putting in as much effort as possible and going as fast as I can though (whilst staying safe of course).

I don't know tbh. I would have thought eating the same amount of food but exercising more, even the little I've had time to do would mean get thinner. But I've had to eat less as well.

I mean whats the point in exercise if it doesn't mean you can eat tons of junk.

MonkeyMonster

Asprilla wrote:

I was 72kg in Jan and I'm 72kg 5,500 miles later.

However, I'm wider on the legs and narrower on the waist than I was.

I also like riding my Felt

AidanR

1) Cycling is not the best form of exercise for losing weight, especially where it counts, i.e. around the middle.

2) Losing weight is more about diet than exercise for the majority of people.

Paul E

It should take me a couple of weeks to drop the half a stone I have put on while I couldn't commute, that's normal for me and I will then be at my normal weight

jonny_trousers

AidanR wrote:

2) Losing weight is more about diet than exercise for the majority of people.

^ This.

Of course exercise helps, but unless we are cycling epic distances, most of us will need to watch our diets closely too if we want to lose significant weight. Very dull.

Torvid

I was looking for where i read it but i think it my well have been in an actual book and not on the internet but you need to remove about 2000 cals from your diet over a week to lose a 1lb in weight. Thats basically a days intake for an average person.

What you should do is get your own numbers worked out without cycling and I have a fairly but not overly active job i still only need 1900 a day. 26miles a day lets me have about 700 cals more a day, or 2 mars bars (other choclates are available) not that i do but you get the idea. That means if i just eat my 1900 cals a day every 3 days i lose 1lb.

I've been around the 168lb mark for a while now but i'm still losing the love handles, take mesurements and use that to judge progress you'll be happier in the long run.

CarlosDSanchez

I had a fortnight off the comute for paternity leave and even though I managed to get in 1 centrury ride and a 50 I still put on nearly a stone over the time off the comute. Now 2 weeks back at work and I've lost about 4lbs, but this week I have decided to address the diet and have stopped bringing any money with me so sweets, crisps, chips and pies are off the menu.

AidanR

:shock:

But there's no need to pile on weight if you can't exercise for a period of time - you just need to be careful with what you eat. Possibly paternity leave is a difficult time to do that, of course!

Torvid

AidanR wrote:

:shock:

But there's no need to pile on weight if you can't exercise for a period of time - you just need to be careful with what you eat. Possibly paternity leave is a difficult time to do that, of course!

One of the carmicheal training books talks about this and pro's, you get into eating paterns from fueling for work outs and you just keep that eating patern, packing on the weight when you should lower your intake, it's very hard to do.

AidanR

I believe that it's also been demonstrated that athletes in particularly gruelling sports can actually damage their metabolism, making them more prone to putting on weight after they quit. I imagine, though, that this has an interaction with diet, in that they become carb-burning machines thanks to what passes for nutrition in sport.

CarlosDSanchez

I eat rubbish, which is half the problem. My commute is 220 miles per week which I why I have been getting away with it. The fortnight off really showed me what I'm headed for if I were to injur myself or get a job closer to home. Hence why I have stopped bringing money with me to work and started making sandwiches and bringing in fruit. Only started Monday, so it's early days, but hopefully my gut should get considerably smaller over the next few months.

Twostage

mudcow007 wrote:

thats been since March this year...i still havent lost a pound of weight

What do the buttons mean on your GPS ? Looks like the one on the top right is for running away from people.

UndercoverElephant

Twostage wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

thats been since March this year...i still havent lost a pound of weight

What do the buttons mean on your GPS ? Looks like the one on the top right is for running away from people.

And how does 1700 + 0 = 2005? Does your GPS include some kind of new maths?

mudcow007

Twostage wrote:

What do the buttons mean on your GPS ? Looks like the one on the top right is for running away from people.

the running dude/ standing still icon means start recording/ stop

its those crazy taiwanese graphics

mudcow007

UndercoverElephant wrote:

And how does 1700 + 0 = 2005? Does your GPS include some kind of new maths?

you can set up different "trips" to record the first value (1700miles) is one of them the 2000 odd miles is the total the computer has done......i think

quite funny it reckons over 2005 miles i have saved over 1410lb of carbon and something about 45.8 trees?

jonny_trousers

Jonny_Trousers wrote:

AidanR wrote:

2) Losing weight is more about diet than exercise for the majority of people.

^ This.

Of course exercise helps, but unless we are cycling epic distances, most of us will need to watch our diets closely too if we want to lose significant weight. Very dull.

Hmm, perhaps not. I put on a wapping 5 kilos across ten days in Tuscany last July and barring getting back to normal eating/drinking and the cycling I have done nothing. Just weighed myself and I appear to have lost 3 of the added 5. Sweet!

clarkey cat

The only way I lose weight is to stop eating chocolate and 'top up' sandwiches in the evenings, no junk food and minimal booze. Then it falls off. Otherwise - nothing changes. Even doing 200 miles a week.