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Losing weight during season

Old 08-05-09, 07:17 AM
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just eat less. its really that simple. if your performance suffers eat more.

last summer i lost over 20lbs in a 2 month span and increased threshold power.
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here's another diet plan:

instead of this , drink this -

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Old 08-05-09, 07:44 AM
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I'm so lazy I have a seltzer maker so I don't have to carry the bottles

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Old 08-05-09, 07:46 AM
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i should get one of those for the 'jam.

they don't have selzter there, only 'sparkling water.'

anyway, i like a can of seltzer. perfect beer placebo.
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Old 08-05-09, 07:50 AM
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A few weeks ago, a friend was making drinks using vodka, and seltzer. It was 0 points on her weight watchers thinger. She was quite proud of herself. They weren't bad either.
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Old 08-05-09, 07:57 AM
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Old 08-05-09, 08:03 AM
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Sigh. One can fuel their body like it's a long haul truck, the family station wagon, a street sweeper, or the beer mobile. They all have their purposes. Race cars generally use different fuel though.
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Originally Posted by gsteinb
Sigh. One can fuel their body like it's a long haul truck, the family station wagon, a street sweeper, or the beer mobile. They all have their purposes. Race cars generally use different fuel though.
Dude, I wasn't saying that I drink them all the time haha.

I don't drink that much, even when I'm in school...
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Old 08-05-09, 08:07 AM
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'dude' you asked the question. I'm the one with veins showing on his intercostal muscles.
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Originally Posted by gsteinb
'dude' you asked the question. I'm the one with veins showing on his intercostal muscles.
That almost sounds nasty. Keep that muscle hidden, K?
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Originally Posted by ggatsby
gin&tonic > beer

at least in terms of weight gain
Fixed

(and I've got lots of anecdotal experience to confirm that.)
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My team giving us cards for free burritos any time we want was probably not the best way to keep our weight down.

Good thing I can't get heavier even if I try. Impossible.
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Originally Posted by ZeCanon
My team giving us cards for free burritos any time we want was probably not the best way to keep our weight down.

Good thing I can't get heavier even if I try. Impossible.
Why do you keep adding to the list of reasons why I don't like you?

This is reason #9.


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Old 08-05-09, 08:22 AM
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Good thing I can't get heavier even if I try. Impossible.
Just wait. I was exactly the same way when I was in college. The metabolism will change. Not that you can't stay lean, you will start to hang on to anything extra you eat.
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Originally Posted by waterrockets
Just wait. I was exactly the same way when I was in college. The metabolism will change. Not that you can't stay lean, you will start to hang on to anything extra you eat.
yep. i've never been a skinny minnie but when i was in my early 20s I could party 3x/week, eat pizza or mac and cheese with cheesy fries, cheese burgers, and drunken late night ben and jerry's binging whenever I wanted, just work our more, and I never gained any weight (working out then was mostly weight lifting and stairmaster/running stuff).

However, at the tender age of 24->25, my metabolism started changing as I started sitting more (office work) and I had to watch the intake. Now, pushing 40, I do more aerobic exercise than at any other time in my life, and I've gotta watch the intake carefully.

ZeCannon - be warned, you're time will come, mark my words, it'll come.
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Originally Posted by MDcatV
yep. i've never been a skinny minnie but when i was in my early 20s I could party 3x/week, eat pizza or mac and cheese with cheesy fries, cheese burgers, and drunken late night ben and jerry's binging whenever I wanted, just work our more, and I never gained any weight (working out then was mostly weight lifting and stairmaster/running stuff).

However, at the tender age of 24->25, my metabolism started changing as I started sitting more (office work) and I had to watch the intake. Now, pushing 40, I do more aerobic exercise than at any other time in my life, and I've gotta watch the intake carefully.

ZeCannon - be warned, you're time will come, mark my words, it'll come.
Don't be so sure....I'm 46 and weigh 145-150 at 70.5" and I eat and drink pretty much whatever I want and as much as I want. If I don't ride at or do any exercise at all...I balloon up to about 160-165 and if I just watch what I eat and ride more I drop to about 138-140.
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Originally Posted by UGASkiDawg
Don't be so sure....I'm 46 and weigh 145-150 at 70.5" and I eat and drink pretty much whatever I want and as much as I want. If I don't ride at or do any exercise at all...I balloon up to about 160-165 and if I just watch what I eat and ride more I drop to about 138-140.
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So:

Breakfast is usually a mixture of granola and raisin bran with millk. That's about 400ish calories.
An egg is 90 calories, and I cook it in olive oil or vegetable oil not butter, so maybe 100. Didn't eat one today.

The lunch sandwiches I make are around 500-600 calories if I put in mayo. I buy an assorted lunch meat pack, and bologna is fatty while ham/turkey are not. Still, that puts the total to around 1k Cal till after lunch.

When I head home, I eat about 300 cals before I ride (pbj) and maybe another 300 on the bike if it's over a 2 hr ride (1.2k KJ).

I guess I eat 'too much' at dinner then...

In the last 3 months, I've done from 19k-21.5k KJ. So I'm not sure how I'm not losing weight when I'm riding so much. I didn't think it's possible to eat that much haha.
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Originally Posted by UGASkiDawg
Don't be so sure....I'm 46 and weigh 145-150 at 70.5" and I eat and drink pretty much whatever I want and as much as I want. If I don't ride at or do any exercise at all...I balloon up to about 160-165 and if I just watch what I eat and ride more I drop to about 138-140.
How much will you weigh the week after I friggin kill your skinny ass?
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Originally Posted by UGASkiDawg
Don't be so sure....I'm 46 and weigh 145-150 at 70.5" and I eat and drink pretty much whatever I want and as much as I want. If I don't ride at or do any exercise at all...I balloon up to about 160-165 and if I just watch what I eat and ride more I drop to about 138-140.
That's the thing though, I didn't need exercise. When I gave up racing and cut the volume to just screwing around one or two hours/week, I could still eat a large pizza for lunch, the column of oreos, ice cream, big chunks of cheddar, Froot Loops and Cocoa Pebbles, etc. And I still weighed 165 lbs (at 6'4"). That only lasted another year or so, then one day I realized I could no longer see the veins on my calves... another 7 years and I was 220 lbs. Then I had to stop eating whatever I wanted.
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Originally Posted by ridethecliche
I weighed 145ish in the spring, and have gained about 10 lbs since then.
If you sweat a lot, much of that could be water weight. I sweat at a high rate and tend to get dehydrated in the heat so my body overcompensates in the summer.

But if you have fat to lose, the scientific approach would be to actually measure the calories and keep track of them.
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Afterbuuuuurn. Grab a $10 resistance band from a sporting store and tear up that upper body. That and a tabata interval before noon will have you on fire for the rest of the day.

Counting calories is an outdated 80s approach and says nothing of the quality and timing of your food.
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Originally Posted by UGASkiDawg
Don't be so sure....I'm 46 and weigh 145-150 at 70.5" and I eat and drink pretty much whatever I want and as much as I want. If I don't ride at or do any exercise at all...I balloon up to about 160-165 and if I just watch what I eat and ride more I drop to about 138-140.
With me the transition occured right at 46 years of age, so watch out!
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eh you guys are just trying to scare me

My dad is 57 now and weighs the same as he did when he used to be a pro trackie. Granted he lost some Guad, but he's still thin as hell. Same with my Grandpa (almost 80). I look exactly like both of them, so I'm hoping I get the skinny forever thing too I figure since they gave me the giant nose (sorry, aerodynamic nose), they owe me one.

Eating healthy for me is just about feeling good, not keeping weight down. When I eat crap, I feel like crap and I ride like crap. With how much I ride I tend to be behind on calories most of the time anyway.

Plus I'm poor and food is expensive. That probably helps.
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This is really on the high end of how much you can or should lose in 6 weeks. You are talking about a deficit of 500 calories a day. You are going to be 1 angry dude.

Also what about rides specific to burning fat. LONG and easy (boring).

When I tried to lose weight I couldn't. When I stopped caring I did. I would not worry about counting calories, as much as controlling the food you do eat.

If you eat anything that would fall under "garbage" just stop eating it. Mayonnaise is one of the worst things you can eat. 2% milk? Try skim milk.

i love cookies myself, and eat them with no guilt during or after rides. Cookies @ night is not ideal.

I do not follow this " don't eat 5 hours before bed" thing. How do you expect to eat if stomach is going nuts.

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