I am no nutritionist, but it is my understanding that you need to shed 3500 calories to lose about a lb of fat. So to lose 2 lbs in one week, you need to save 7000 cal., or 1000 cal. a day. This means cutting from your diet and/or exercising to burn calories, and combining these two to drop 1000 calories per day. This is a lot of work. You may burn 500 cal/hr while biking give or take, I'm not really sure. But if you already had cycling in your daily regimen, you'd have to add an hour of cycling and cut 500 food calories, for example, to save 1000 per day. Sounds pretty tough huh!?
Did that make sense?
This is the ideal pattern for sustained fat loss. I lost about 40 lbs in 5 months under these principles last year!
Last edited by Guillermo; 08-07-02 at 10:40 PM.