Originally Posted by
Branko D
I try not to overthink it, keeping a few hundred in deficit every day isn't a chore and the numbers are slowly but steadily going down. Hoping to be at around 69kg (about 150 lbs) by spring, should improve my climbing by a bit - hopefully just enough to hang with people better in races when the gradient goes up, without robbing me of any muscle and power.
We're in similar places. I'm at just under 70 kg and hoping to get to 67 kg by spring. In general, compared to my riding peers, I have the advantage when the road turns up. They have more power on the flats, but I distance them on the climbs. Losing a few kg will help with that.
I don't know where that threshold is where I would become so thin as to lose muscle and power, but I don't think I'm close. I haven't done a % body fat calculation, but I still have some soft tissue in my abdomen (no six pack here), so I'm confident that losing a few kilos would be good.