Losing weight during season
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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.
last summer i lost over 20lbs in a 2 month span and increased threshold power.
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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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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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'dude' you asked the question. I'm the one with veins showing on his intercostal muscles.
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(and I've got lots of anecdotal experience to confirm that.)
(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.
Good thing I can't get heavier even if I try. Impossible.
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Making a kilometer blurry
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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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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.
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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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.
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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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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Making a kilometer blurry
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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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.
Counting calories is an outdated 80s approach and says nothing of the quality and timing of your food.
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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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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.
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.
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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