Originally Posted by
Black wallnut
JakiChan, you are asking for suggestions and that is what I am offering. I'm not sure what will work for you or why you are not losing with two hours daily. On my long weekend rides I don't eat a meal I snack as needed. I do eat a good breakfast and often a big dinner.
The big dinner doesn't help. I tried not eating on a ride, bonked, had to be SAGed and I wasn't dehydrated.
I'm saying that when you exercise more it causes your metabolism to speed up and makes you hungrier. I'm suggesting that for some people there may be a limit, as far as weight loss goes, where too much exercise makes it harder to lose weight.
This story kinda shows what I'm talking about.
The food diaries showed that the 60-minute exercisers ate larger meals and snacks than the 30-minute exercisers. They also spent more time sitting during the hours they weren't working out.
Those findings suggested that the extra exercise left the men tired and hungry, and researchers say the extra rest and eating may be linked to the smaller-than-expected weight loss.
In contrast, exercise seemed to give members of the 30-minute group more energy in the hours they weren't working out - something researchers called a "bonus effect."