Originally Posted by
antokelly
have any of you folk's lost weight through cycling. the reason i ask im going on a diet starting tomarrow (god help me),anyway as long as i've been cycling i dont think i've ever lost an ounce it proberly has helped keeping the weight off but this last year i have gotten very lazy on the bike.
but my plan for what it's worth is to loose 2 stone between now and march, at the moment im almost 13 stone way to heavy for me im only 5ft 6 in ,okay im in my 50's but the heart of a ninteen year old (joke).
anyway what im looking for is a good diet one that works /exercise a program that will tighten up all the loose flab only jokeing all my weight is on my belly sorry to say .
So folk's help out a fellow cyclists .
oh yeah for all the troller's out there if this thread offends your intelligence UP YOURS>
Weight loss is dead simple, it can be expresses as a mathematical formula:
CI - CO = WC
CI is
calories
in, this is what you stuff into your face, the problem most overweight people have is that food becomes a comfort, a friend, so they eat when they are happy, they eat when they are sad. You need a change of attitude to food is fuel, some fuels are better then others. You want the highest vitamin and mineral content (nutritional value) per calorie. This means that some foods like soda, refined sugars and a lot of the packaged foods will have zero or near zero nutritional value. Some dead simple rules, if it comes with a nature provided package and is grown within 100km (60 miles) of home, it's probably good for you. If it comes in a box and is made in a factory far far away, probably not. Product of ... is no indication of where it started it's journey. Take for example fish sticks, caught in Russian waters, processed in China, then put frozen into a box in Canada makes it a Product of Canada simply because the chick putting them in the box is making $8.50/hr.
CO is
calories
out. Go sell your car and throw out the TV, far far to many people in North America sit in front of the idiot box for hours on end, because TV watching is so boring and mind numbing, they eat for something to do, while glued to the couch wondering why their rear end is now wider then the rear end of an MCI J4500.... Because they are always sitting, either in the comfy cushions of the couch or the car, they never do any form of exercise.
If you actually need the car for something, an alternative is to set a guideline, any journey of less then 1 hour by foot, you walk, any journey over an hour walking, but less then 1 hour by bicycle, you bike. If it's more then 1 hour by bicycle, then take transit where available. There are exceptions, if you need to pass through an area that is excessively dangerous then maybe you switch modes.
WC is
Weight change in
Calories, 3500 calories is roughly 1lb, 7700 calories is roughly 1kg and 49,000 calories are 1 stone. Now lets go back to the formula:
Say you eat 2000 calories in one day, you burn 2000 calories just living, you bicycle and walk the equivalent of 1000 calories per day (which really isn't that much), so lets plug that in:
2000 - 3000 = -1000.
At that rate you will lose 2lbs per week, 1 stone takes 7 weeks, so 2 stone is about 14 weeks.
Lets bring this on-topic, a tour can mean a significant caloric burn, because your riding a lot each day, with a heavily loaded bike or trailer behind your bike, you burn more, it can be a lot more, the burn rate can be high enough, if the daily distance is long enough, that you can lose weight without trying.