Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
To the OP, riding every day will not help you lose weight. Recovery is every bit as important as the effort-- I am living proof. I did 70 consecutive riding days without a break last year, covering about 2,500 miles and climbing 100,000 feet. My weight remained static. Because to fuel that kind of effort, you have to eat... a lot. It's like the body is in distress all the time. This year I've finally started to take it easy (a little) with planned recovery days as well as just spontaneous days off. Dropped over 10 pounds. I restrict quantity, not individual items. I still eat donuts and all of the other junk-- just less of it.
Climbing a steady grade of 5% or more, at or near threshold, 130 calories per mile. So still yeah, 260kcal isn't a whole lot, but burning 260kcal in less than 10 minutes will still take it out of you.
[MENTION=400231]DrIsotope[/MENTION], your story sounds very familiar to me soooo . . . . . basically this is what I do . . .
- Keep riding everydays
- Never thinking about stop riding
- Fear of weight gain
- Undereat, Cut calories in hope of weight loss
- Intermittent Fasting, Full Fasting day blah blah, I been do it for 1 year and half, can't tell its help but my performance not improve much nor notice any different
- My body see 'cycling' as only way to burn calories . . . this is super terrible AKA not ride today? TA-DA weight gain! yay . . . .
My metabolism probably 'damaged' I am at the point that my body can't do its jobs to burn calories without exercise (cycling)
I come to think why the hell I keep do this all the time? Didn't I want to enjoy riding? why I do it to weight loss? why? I keep asking myself
From now on, I will not ride hard and everyday like before, of course my weight gains like crazy, I went from 69-70 to 78kg in just 1 month now and seems to stop there (8kg gains
jesus, don't tell me its water weight, its fat ha!!!)
Now I aim to . . . eat whatever I want but still able to lose weight (hopefully) need to stop riding everyday like mad