- Buy a heart rate monitor if you don't have one, use it every ride
- Cut yourfat/saturated fat intake way down--hint Cheese is an easy one to cut
- Eat poultry products with beef only once or twice a week
- Cut Sodas and carbonated beverages fully including any foods with HFCS (high fructose corn syrup). If you're sitting idly around the house, keep it to water or tea or coffee with low/no-fat creamer
- Increase vegetable/fruit/fiber intake.
- More smaller healthy meals instead of huge ones.
- Try protein recovery drink like MetRX after hard workouts. This has the added benefit of displacing your appetite, so you eat less when you have a meal a little later while still giving your body the components needed to build lean muscle mass.
- Add in a few days a week of sustained gym time. This will increase your sustained calorie burn while building muscle mass in areas of the body.
- Get plenty of sleep, as deprivation has been shown to negatively impact body weight.
G'luck--you're doing great!
