Not losing weight....

As in "I need to avoid losing weight", not "I'm trying to lose weight but can't" 
My knee is feeling better, almost a year after being hit by a car, so I'm starting to get back to regular commuting. I'm also doing a Welsh MTB coast to coast challenge in September:( http://crudcatcherc2cc.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 ) so will be ramping up the miles in preparation for that. Even before I do that I seem to burn off everything I eat. In the months where I was doing basically no exercise I didn't put any weight on, despite eating (IMO) a relatively healthy, varied and plentiful diet.
Basically, with a BMI of 20, I've not got much in the way of fat reserves so I definitely don't want to lose any weight. How do the other 'lean' folk with longish commutes manage to eat enough, especially at work, to not waste away?
Loads of sandwiches? Mountains of pasta? Protein shakes? Blocks of lard? Fish and chips five times a week?

My knee is feeling better, almost a year after being hit by a car, so I'm starting to get back to regular commuting. I'm also doing a Welsh MTB coast to coast challenge in September:( http://crudcatcherc2cc.blogspot.co.uk/?m=1 ) so will be ramping up the miles in preparation for that. Even before I do that I seem to burn off everything I eat. In the months where I was doing basically no exercise I didn't put any weight on, despite eating (IMO) a relatively healthy, varied and plentiful diet.
Basically, with a BMI of 20, I've not got much in the way of fat reserves so I definitely don't want to lose any weight. How do the other 'lean' folk with longish commutes manage to eat enough, especially at work, to not waste away?
Loads of sandwiches? Mountains of pasta? Protein shakes? Blocks of lard? Fish and chips five times a week?
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I'm having a similar problem. I am doing more and more riding in preparation for a week long jaunt in May. The weight just keeps falling off and i didnt think i had any to lose! 6ft3 and 75kg...... It's not a good look.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
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See food. Eat it.
"As I said last time, it won't happen again."
After my accident I didn't cut down my intake and did put on 3 kilos. Hopefully I'll shake that as I'm riding more now. Glad you're back on the bike Bails, Welsh ride should be fun.
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I have reacquainted myself with the sausage rolls done by the canteen and I'm hoping these fill the gap. If this doesn't work their chelsea buns are awesome and may provide the answer.
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Doing 30 miles a day for the last 9 months and in the first 3 months dropped about a stone but remained static since then at a BMI of 25.
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Pinnacle Monzonite
Liberal metropolitan, remoaner, traitor, "sympathiser", etc.
"As I said last time, it won't happen again."
And it has to be junk food, for example not just one biscuit but 5 plus a packet of crisps. And that's just for an evening snack just before you go to bed. Have the same or more earlier in the day as an afternoon snack. You could even have another couple of biscuits or packet of crisps in the morning just to make sure.
That is all.
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And cures and healing wells
It's not a problem, I can quit any time I like.
"As I said last time, it won't happen again."
As an indication the full to empty weight of my lunchbox for work is 1.15Kg, breakfast getting home snack, dinner and supper on top of that!
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I am always hungry. No matter how much I eat, I remain hungry. Now that I am doing more cycling and am generally more active (my working day now consists of me sitting down for about 30 minutes rather than all day) I am hungrier than ever. MrsEKE is trying to lose weight, I'm just trying to maintain but her idea of portion control is my idea of a starvation diet.
Bails, my suggestions:
Two breakfasts, (one at home, the other at work) one of these breakfasts should be a fry-up.
Elevenses which include sugary biscuits. Chocolate digestives or Hob Nobs are ideal.
Big lunch. At least three courses and lots of carbs.
Pre-home time munch. Any good cake shops near where you work?
Pre-dinner munch. I quite like cheese and biscuits to fill the massive time gap between getting home from work and eating dinner.
Dinner. Have a big portion. Then have seconds.
Dessert. Yes please. Have ice-cream on the side too.
Supper. Eat it. Remember, breakfast is a long time away so you'll need to stock up to prevent yourself getting hungry during the night.
To make sure you don't get peckish between the above set meal times, feel free to snack on fruit, berries and nuts. And chocolate, pies and sweets.
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I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
Can you try making sure that you've got calorie-dense foods in your diet? That generally means fats of some sort. Having an avocado drizzled in chilli oil as a starter perhaps? Nuts are good. Dried fruit still has the sugar problem but at least with some fibre in there. And if you want something sweet - something like a wholemeal bagel slathered in peanut butter with a banana mashed into it would be better for you than the slice of cake.
Funnily enough, a week after my big ride i shall be going to the states for a week.
I keep a spreadsheet of my weekly weight & fat%. The results will be interesting.
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:shock: WTH?
Lunch should look like this
Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
If you're looking to put on weight I wouldn't necessarily go down the route of chowing down on loads of unhealthy [email protected] like cakes, pre packed and prepared food like sausage rolls etc. Loading up on sat fat and trans fat just because you "think" you are too skinny is not a good way to go. I would have a long, hard look at your diet, calculate what you burn on a daily basis and what you consume.
Over the years I've heard many people tell me they eat "loads" but never put on weight (and vice versa, chubby friends say they barely eat) but when you take a long hard objective look you realise that, compared with others you really aren't eating what you should. Saying to yourself you eat "loads" is very subjective, if you really believe there is a problem, take a calulated, objective view. Have you ever watched that TV prog "Supersize/Superskinny", many of the skinny people think they are eating more than enough, they simply don't seem to have much of a concept of what it is their bodies need to function. On the other hand, the supersizers just don't realise what they're absent mindedly packing away every day.
Perhaps you're at your optimum weight anyway? Why do you necessarily think you need to pile on the pounds? If it really concerns you, see a nutritionist or dietician but personally I wouldn't simply lay into the lardy takeaway foods, whether you're too thin, too fat or just right, that sort of food is never good in abundance...
And I agree that just eating censored isn't the right answer, I took those posts as being tongue in cheek.
The super size/super skinny programme is interesting, it often seems like the skinny people have the truly unhealthy diets ("I only eat dry ryvitas and I drink 30 cans of red bull a day") whereas a lot of the fatties aren't necessarily eating the wrong things, they're just eating enough for four people.
"As I said last time, it won't happen again."
I did say as a starter...
You've posted the main course and pudding
Don't see a problem