~140 now. Was previously ~150 or so before I regularly took up cycling. I felt extremely sluggish back when I was 170 or so when I was doing absolutely nothing, can't imagine how some of you went on w/ even bigger weight differences.

Ideally I'd like to get down to 120~130 (end of HS~college weight while I was actually doing some intramural sports), but I seem to be hitting a wall at this point. That gut won't go away no matter what I do...

I'm 185 right now. I reached my target weight of 183 this summer, like I do most summers. I'll weigh close to 190 by late winter.

I had done my weight loss before I started commuting. I started riding in 2004, but could never quite get my weight to where it needed to be until just after my lung surgery in December, 2007. I don't recommend that technique.

I'm a fat SOB and it's none of your damn business.

I started bike commuting to my present job in March, 2001. At the time I weighed about 165 lbs. I now weigh about 165 lbs.

I'm down to 169 now and was 189 before I started commuting last spring. For about the 3 three months my weight stayed the same, but my belt kept getting longer. So when you first begin you can't always judge progress by the scale alone. Around last September the muscle gain started to level off and my weight started coming down to about what it is now. I don't have any particular weight target, but I do still have some fat to burn off.

Only recently have my thighs started to slim (darn! and I thought that was all muscle ;) ). I've noticed the grippers on my favourite shorts are getting looser and looser. I'm probably already at the point that I should go down a size.

I started biking after I hurt my knee jogging. When I was jogging daily, my weight was 185 pounds. With bike commuting the past 3 years, my weight is currently 225 pounds.

Trying to lose weight now, but jogging was a much better activity for weight loss. Too bad my knees won't take it. After biking, I want to eat like a horse.

5'8" - was 205 at one point, started to get better about food (hard to do with a cook/baker as good as my wife) and dropped to about 185 and now 170-175 with commuting. Now my goal isn't weight but inches (across the belly primarily) and that seems to be falling recently but it is just observation, not measured.

I find that 60km rides on weekends helps me most with my goal, the 2 15km rides (in and then out from work) don't affect me as much as a longer ride.

I must say for those of you who dropped significant poundage, congrats!!! :thumb:

I haven't lost weight at all. But I haven't gained any either.
In fact, I think that I have more muscle now that before I started, and great legs.
That said, I don't weigh myself at all exept for at a Dr. appointment. So long as my clothes still fit and I don't go up sizes, so be it.

However, we just got a dog so I suspect that I could start losing weight as I am now walking miles every day in addition to my ~20 mile RT daily bike ride. :D

56yr old guy. Have been cycling since I was a kid. Haven't lost any weight, but an inch in height- and at 5ft. 3 in., I can't afford to lose many inches. 105 lbs.

I started commuting on February1 of this year and wieghed 202, I now weigh 177.

Started commuting at 115 lbs. Now I weigh 120. Exercise+food=muscle :)

I'm 6'7" and currently 280, looking to get down to 220 or so as an immediate goal. In addition to cycling, I also lift weights a few times per week.

I started out at around 13.2 stone. I'm now around 12.8 stone. My height is roughly equal to the distance light travels in a vacuum in 6.4 nanoseconds.

I started commuting after the Memorial Day weekend. In fact, that's when I dug the bike out. At the time I weighed 160lbs. Over the course of a couple of weeks my weight shot up to 169 and I was beginning to wonder if I should continue this biking thing. Then, as quickly as it shot up, it came back down. It now hovers around 153.

The big difference is in how much I eat. Before Memorial Day I ate like a bird. Now, I'm on a 'see food diet'. If I see food I eat it! I eat way more than I use to. I wonder if biking isn't a trap. If I get used to eating what's going to happen if I stop biking?

All the more reason to keep biking!

I started commuting a bit over 2 years ago at 295lbs...this morning was 264.

I've been biking for about 5 months, I think. 3.3 miles each way (but I just moved and now it's 4).
I started at 150
now I'm 148.

Not a dramatic difference on paper, but I notice a difference. There was a sweater that I couldn't zip up; but it looks good so I was trying to figure out if I should throw it out (major clothing purge for the move). I could now zip it up, and it's not even tight. And I have thigh muscles now, who knew?

I also attribute the slow weight loss with eating; before when I noticed myself getting a little heavier I cut my beer drinking way down -this was pre-biking. But now that I'm getting back in shape, I can drink as much as I want and not gain weight. So I do, life is for living, after all.

~150 lbs. Unfortunately, the calories I burn cycling allow me to make poor choices in my diet...

I started off this spring weighing the same as last spring, 200 lbs. I now weigh the same as this time last year, 185 lbs. It's a vicious cycle for me. I gain 15 pounds during the winter, and burn it back off by end of summer.

I'v got a plan to break the cycle this winter. I have a trainer for my bike, and I've taken up yoga.

I started riding in June 2010. At that time I was 340lbs. I commuted on a heavy comfort bike and walked up every hill.

I'm 198 now - and I commute on a salsa casseroll.

I can't PM you because I have <50 posts but I just wanted to get an opinion on the Casseroll. How are you liking it? It fits all of my needs and I'm very interested... The only trouble is that no local bike shops sells Salsa. (The two in NYC stopped stocking 'em because of low sales. Boo!) Is it worth the 50mi drive to the nearest dealer?

I've hovered between 196 and 213 for the past 15 years, and I've been 6'1" the entire time (sorry, didn't grow). I've been commuting by bike since 1999, but my rides got longer this summer when I started commuting the 32 mile round trip 3x/week. I was also working on a marathon training routine online. Eventually, I fell off that wagon, but my increased red blood cell count made commuting a lot easier. This summer, I have lost weight (not sure how much), but slacks that used to be tight just aren't any more. Jeans that were comfortable but baggy are almost downright unwearable.

Fortunately, my commute allows me to make these bad choices without immediate negative effects, but I probably would have dropped more weight by watching my calories.

6'8", bounce between 220-230lbs, I'm at 225 now. Started ~3 years ago at 290ish lbs. Been this weight for about a year and a half, maybe two.

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When I began bicycle commuting (this time) I was about 215 Lbs. Cycling and better (but far from perfect) diet has me down around 180-5 Lbs. Ideally, I'd like to get down below 165 Lbs, which was my lowest weight during my Army service (but still well above my 135 Lbs wrestling weight from HS), but I don't think I have it in me to make that kind of lifestyle change.

However, I don't think the scale tells the whole story, as I am fitting into clothes that were previously tight at 185, and I feel much, much better overall. I did notice some real gain over the winter, when I slacked off on cycling -- my weight was over 190 at one point. My goal for this winter is to dust off my Concept II and do some indoor rowing when the weather isn't cycling friendly enough (for me).