Foo - My pants are getting tight...help!

From gaining weight....keep you minds out of the gutter!:p

So despite staying active, now that I'm not riding everyday....I've gone up to 206 pounds! :eek: :mad: :(

I'm never going to be a 160 pound climber, because I'm 6ft and have a rugged frame. But I'm getting a gut...and that's just unacceptable to me. For me 190-195 should be my "offseason" weight and 180-185 my "riding season" weight. But this year I struggled to stay around 195 during the season. Sadly...I know why...I like food too much! My portions are too big. It's not that my diet is that bad...it's that I eat too much.:( I do have one weakness...pizza. But I have no one to blame but myself for this.

So after this weekend, I'm going to start running again as often as my beat up Marine knees will allow in addition to a few nights a week on the fluid trainer and some resistance tranining a couple nights a week. I gotta get my weight back down before Spring.

Anyone else have this issue? I know there are some folks like Tom who have lost large amounts of weight. In fact several years ago I weighed almost 240! That's a long story...but suffice it to say that other than that period of a couple years...I have always been pretty fit. It just hard when you love food. I've started a "food diary" in a small notebook, to better track what I eat and how much. Gotta start creating a calorie deficit.

I guess I have to face the fact that I'm a lot closer to 40 than 30 and my body doesn;t burn up the calories like it used to.

From gaining weight....keep you minds out of the gutter!:p

So despite staying active, now that I'm not riding everyday....I've gone up to 206 pounds! :eek: :mad: :(

I'm never going to be a 160 pound climber, because I'm 6ft and have a rugged frame. But I'm getting a gut...and that's just unacceptable to me. For me 190-195 should be my "offseason" weight and 180-185 my "riding season" weight. But this year I struggled to stay around 195 during the season. Sadly...I know why...I like food too much! My portions are too big. It's not that my diet is that bad...it's that I eat too much.:( I do have one weakness...pizza. But I have no one to blame but myself for this.

So after this weekend, I'm going to start running again as often as my beat up Marine knees will allow in addition to a few nights a week on the fluid trainer and some resistance tranining a couple nights a week. I gotta get my weight back down before Spring.

Anyone else have this issue? I know there are some folks like Tom who have lost large amounts of weight. In fact several years ago I weighed almost 240! That's a long story...but suffice it to say that other than that period of a couple years...I have always been pretty fit. It just hard when you love food. I've started a "food diary" in a small notebook, to better track what I eat and how much. Gotta start creating a calorie deficit.

I guess I have to face the fact that I'm a lot closer to 40 than 30 and my body doesn;t burn up the calories like it used to.
Wait til you top 45! Then you really have a rough time with the weight!

simple solution - eat less.

simple solution - eat less.
and exercise more. There is no "magic" in losing weight.

out of curiosity are you drinking water? lots and lots of water? you can actually lose weight through drinking water. if you're dehydrated, your liver has to work overtime, and ends up creating a backlog of fat through food it can't process. so drink water. it's the quickest way.

edit: are you sure your pant's aren't shrinking?

and exercise more. There is no "magic" in losing weight.


Trust me...I know there is no "magic" in it. And I know I can do it...I'm just writing I guess to reflect on how much of a challenge it is at times.

simple solution - eat less.


and exercise more. There is no "magic" in losing weight.

NOT as simple as that when you have metabolic issues, it often requires hormone supplementation, either Gonadotropins, or Thyroid medication. In addition, you have to be extremely careful about losing weight if you are diabetic. It can also involve radical surgery, as a lifesaving measure due to the fact that after a certain point, exercise becomes literally impossible and the metabolism becomes so depressed that you can not lose weight without said intervention. It's not a;ways as simple as you make out, guys. :(

Here's an idea:

If you like Pizza so much, then earn it: ride your bike to Wooster Street in New Haven.

You'll get a good workout on the way, eat the best pizza in the US, and then ride it off going home.

Problem solved! :D

NOT as simple as that when you have metabolic issues, it often requires hormone supplementation, either Gonadotropins, or Thyroid medication. In addition, you have to be extremely careful about losing weight if you are diabetic. It can also involve radical surgery, as a lifesaving measure due to the fact that after a certain point, exercise becomes literally impossible and the metabolism becomes so depressed that you can not lose weight without said intervention. It's not a;ways as simple as you make out, guys. :(

with all due respect, that does not seem to be the case here, nor is it the case for the general public.

out of curiosity are you drinking water? lots and lots of water? you can actually lose weight through drinking water. if you're dehydrated, your liver has to work overtime, and ends up creating a backlog of fat through food it can't process. so drink water. it's the quickest way.

edit: are you sure your pant's aren't shrinking?

I drink a LOT of water. Any more and I'd turn into a fish. Other than my morning coffee and the occasional pepsi....water is what I drink all the time. About four water bottles a day at my desk and four or five 20 oz. bottles of it after work on an average day.

Only eat what your two hands can hold. Seriously, if you put your hands together that is a cup. We should only eat a cup of food for each serving. For example if you eat chicken the size of the piece of chicken should be about the size of a deck of cards. Then if you eat veggies it should only be the amount of cup or less.
This will help you lose weight and really thats about the amount of food that you should eat.

It work and so does a regular exercise program. :)

dont worry cycle, you'll lose it again, you can increase your running maybe? that sure burns a lot of calories :)

simple solution - eat less.

The conversations on this have gone around and around - but this is far from bulletproof. And it's not so simple.

My advice (from a struggling shrinker) is to track everything you eat. Use Fitday and honestly put in every morsel of food that enters your mouth. Look for a good percentage of fat-calories-protein (30-50-20 seems to be a good one to start off from). Track yourself for a week without changing anything, see what your baseline is. After a week look for things to cut out (soda, sugar, etc...).

Here's an idea:

If you like Pizza so much, then earn it: ride your bike to Wooster Street in New Haven.

You'll get a good workout before, eat the best pizza in the US, and then ride it off on the way home.

Problem solved! :D
Now there is a good suggestion!:D Let's see, 872 miles, each way,not allowing for wind or terrain, that's 24,872 calories burned each way! Woohoo! I'll be there in a bit over a week if the weather cooperates!:D You buyin'?:D

Only eat what your two hands can hold. Seriously, if you put your hands together that is a cup. We should only eat a cup of food for each serving. For example if you eat chicken the size of the piece of chicken should be about the size of a deck of cards. Then if you eat veggies it should only be the amount of cup or less.
This will help you lose weight and really thats about the amount of food that you should eat.

In my mitts I'd wind up eating the whole bird!

Boston's got it. Pure physics. Burn more calories than you bring in, and you will lose weight.

with all due respect, that does not seem to be the case here, nor is it the case for the general public.
Agreed, I was just reminding that it isn't always the simple solution.:D

I appreciate the replies. While I'm not so much looking for diet tips, but will consider what some of you posted, I excercise a lot more than the average person. Most of you know that I ride wellover 3,000 miles a year outdoors, stay on a trainer over the winter and throw in a little jogging here and there, so it's not like I'm not active. I am more commmenting on the fact that as I've gotten older...I've had to increase the amount of exercise I get to maintain a what I consider a healthy weight. Now I've got to give serious consideration to how much I eat and how my metabolism responds to my food intake. I guess I'm just saying I don;t have the metabolism that I did even a few years ago and maintaining a wieght that I'm happy with will be harder. As a cyclist that's obviously a factor for me. Could I be more active over the winter? yes...and I'm going to have to do that and cut back on the food if I want to lose the extra weight and maintain now that my body has gone through yet another change.

Anyone else have this issue?
Ayup. I hate riding in the dark so I've been running sporadically and lifting weights 2 to 3 times a week. All to pretty much maintain my gut... I'd like to run more but I can only get in about 5 miles at a time a few times a week before my legs start giving me problems.

But, now that xmas traffic is gone and I have the money to buy a nice bag, I don't really have any excuse to not ride into work. That'll be on the menu beginning next year.

I've also been keeping track of what I eat. Yestarday was 4300 calories...

But a third of that was from beer. Beer has good calories, right? Right?

In my mitts I'd wind up eating the whole bird!

I know for some it doesn't make sense but its been studied alot and it seems to be right.

I was having such a hard time losing weight and I started following this method along side with going to the gym and biking 6 days a week.

Also, you should eat 5-6 meals daily

Cycle17 - Please know that I respect you. You have sufficient knowledge, but what you need here is motivation.

Here's some to go on:

cycle17's slowly morphin into a porker. :roflmao: :roflmao:

he he he (Hey Tom, have a pig smilie in that collection of yours to contribute to this one?)

Hey - I just realized that you're a Clydes. Come on over and join our party!! :D

Cycle17 - Please know that I respect you. You have sufficient knowledge, but what you need here is motivation.

Here's some to go on:

cycle17's slowly morphin into a porker. :roflmao: :roflmao:

he he he (Hey Tom, have a pig smilie in that collection of yours to contribute to this one?)
http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons/36.gifhttp://smileyonline.free.fr/images/19032003/boj_la_vache.gif

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Boston's got it. Pure physics. Burn more calories than you bring in, and you will lose weight.

Before the hornets attack -

If you need medical help to burn more calories than you're bringing in, so be it, but it doesn't change the math. My wife's stuck in that rut right now.

Agreed, I was just reminding that it isn't always the simple solution.:D
For 99% of people, the "simple" solution works.

Another ting which I should have mentioned is that people are just built differently- some people are just built to be super thin, others a little more husky..

But a third of that was from beer. Beer has good calories, right? Right?

Yes. The beer calories mingle with the left over beer fairy dust and have a dance-off, resulting in both lost weight AND a killer cha-cha.

I'm incoherent this morning. Someone spike my coffee.

Yes. The beer calories mingle with the left over beer fairy dust and have a dance-off, resulting in both lost weight AND a killer cha-cha.
Is that why I'm such a totally awesome dancer when I'm drunk?

For 99% of people, the "simple" solution works.

Another ting which I should have mentioned is that people are just built differently- some people are just built to be super thin, others a little more husky..

Yeah I haven't been super thin since 1998 or so.

Plus, I'm a stocky little girl. Tons of muscle mass its good and bad at the same time.

Someone spike my coffee.
I initially read "spike" as "spank" and my pants got tight for a second.

So despite staying active, now that I'm not riding everyday....I've gone up to 206 pounds! :eek: :mad: :(



I'll help you out, pal. I kinda miss the drill field...come on over for a week or two, I'll fix ya right up.

Bends and Thrusts, now, maggot!!! Too slow, mountain climbers...GET EM!!

Is that why I'm such a totally awesome dancer when I'm drunk?

Duh. Of course. Ever notice how you only get better the more you imbibe?

I initially read "spike" as "spank" and my pants got tight for a second.

I know...coffee is so freaking sexy.

Spanking doesn't have to make sense.

I'll help you out, pal. I kinda miss the drill field...come on over for a week or two, I'll fix ya right up.

Bends and Thrusts, now, maggot!!!
Yeah, sex is great exercise, but don't call me maggot, Chip. :rolleyes:

If your pants are too tight, just take 'em off. Like Explody. :rolleyes:

If your pants are too tight, just take 'em off. Like Explody. :rolleyes:
Pics?

Pics?
Please not. :eek:

Ive seen your legs they are massive!!!!!!!!!!! Im sure even with a few extra pounds you will still blow most of them away!!! Life ebbs and flows and we always seem to want to fight it. When the time is right and your motivation is there you will easily get back to the weight you want :)

If only the rest of me was in as good a shape as my legs!!! Carrying around two cynder blocks for legs should be a good workout...but that's not enough.:p

And Zorro...that was some funny *hit you posted. My reply...? Oink Oink!:p :D

I won't be a "Clyde" for long...not that there is anything wrong with that mind you. We're not all build like sticks!:p ;)

Yeah, sex is great exercise, but don't call me maggot, Chip. :rolleyes:

Maggot, darlin?

If only the rest of me was in as good a shape as my legs!!! Carrying around two cynder blocks for legs should be a good workout...but that's not enough.:p

And Zorro...that was some funny *hit you posted. My reply...? Oink Oink!:p :D

I won't be a "Clyde" for long...not that there is anything wrong with that mind you. We're not all build like sticks!:p ;)

Hows this for motivation. If you ain't at 195 by the time we come out for Lancaster in August, you owe me an hour of PT in front of everyone - AFTER the ride - preferably in a bar with lots of cute gals watching you sweat to my bidding!

No matter what the thread, Explody brings up spanking. :beer:

No matter what the thread, Explody brings up spanking. :beer:

I know, isn't he dreamy? :love:

I know, isn't he dreamy? :love:

So should we ask for a spanking thread to be started or just wait for explody pup to lower each and every thread back to a more realistic level.

Hows this for motivation. If you ain't at 195 by the time we come out for Lancaster in August, you owe me an hour of PT in front of everyone - AFTER the ride - preferably in a bar with lots of cute gals watching you sweat to my bidding!

You got it Marine. That's a good one...but let's make it 30 minutes...just to be safe.:p

I plan on losing the weight by (or before) my birthday in April. That's three and a half months. It's doable.;)

You got it Marine. That's a good one...but let's make it 30 minutes...just to be safe.:p

But I'm only a 22 second man....oh wait, wrong thread, <puffs up> yeah, just to be safe. :lol:

From gaining weight....keep you minds out of the gutter!:p

So despite staying active, now that I'm not riding everyday....I've gone up to 206 pounds! :eek: :mad: :(

I'm never going to be a 160 pound climber, because I'm 6ft and have a rugged frame. But I'm getting a gut...and that's just unacceptable to me. For me 190-195 should be my "offseason" weight and 180-185 my "riding season" weight. But this year I struggled to stay around 195 during the season. Sadly...I know why...I like food too much! My portions are too big. It's not that my diet is that bad...it's that I eat too much.:( I do have one weakness...pizza. But I have no one to blame but myself for this.

So after this weekend, I'm going to start running again as often as my beat up Marine knees will allow in addition to a few nights a week on the fluid trainer and some resistance tranining a couple nights a week. I gotta get my weight back down before Spring.

Anyone else have this issue? I know there are some folks like Tom who have lost large amounts of weight. In fact several years ago I weighed almost 240! That's a long story...but suffice it to say that other than that period of a couple years...I have always been pretty fit. It just hard when you love food. I've started a "food diary" in a small notebook, to better track what I eat and how much. Gotta start creating a calorie deficit.

I guess I have to face the fact that I'm a lot closer to 40 than 30 and my body doesn;t burn up the calories like it used to.

Time to eat more fruits, salads and fish.

time to burn more calories than I eat.

Theroy is wonderful :lol:

Time to eat more fruits, salads and fish.

Yeah, you say your diet is good, but i wonder what that means? Look, in this country the average diet is horrible. With all of the fast food and fried fatty foods, being fat is almost a given. You don't have to eat fish nuts and salads the rest of your life, but you'll need to say goodbye to the fast food restaurants and fried food.

Everyone has there way of doing it but for me, the last 4 + years I have simply avoided high fat, fried fast food and red meat. And yeah, i still have pizza too occasionally, because i like to. At the end of the day it's about WHAT you put into your mouth and how active you are. But what you put in your mouth is more important than how much or physical activity.

You got it Marine. That's a good one...but let's make it 30 minutes...just to be safe.:p

I plan on losing the weight by (or before) my birthday in April. That's three and a half months. It's doable.;)
Alternative inducement:

Ride a bent on a windy day in a kilt, going "Regimental!", complete with video!:D