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).

I'm about 174cm and 140 lbs but I never seem to gain or lose much weight. Still, I do feel better since I've been riding more regularly.

A little clarity please:

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an artificial conduit, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse, as in a town or city.

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Ok, maybe I'm just an SOB. But it's still none of your damn business.

I started 4 weeks ago at 240. I've done at least 4 days a week except for last week where I only was able to fit in one day. I'm currently 245. I'm hoping it's just leg muscle building and soon the weight will start dropping off.

165 lbs. I was 185 lbs 3 years ago before I started bike commuting...I gain back about 10 lbs in the Winter. :o

I'm a 5'4" (163cm) female at 150lb (68kg)... which is not OK. I began commuting 6mi/day 2x/week on 9/1/11. My diet's not bad so I'm not planning on making any immediate changes to it in the near future. I may rethink this strategy if my weight refuses to budge, though >_<



+1 :D

Bravo! Seriously- that kicks ass!

I'm 5'10". I was 180 lbs in 2008 when I started riding a stationary bike 3X/wk. I was 175 lbs when I started cycle-commuting in 2009. I was 150 lbs by the following November. I tend to gain a few pounds over the winter, but have hovered around 150 for a couple of years now. I'm off the bike altogether for the next six weeks (maybe longer) so I'll have to watch what I eat to prevent my weight from spiking.

(do note, I wasn't offended by the above, I'm just offering my honest answer)

It's different if you grew up as a fat, pokey, unathletic kid and proceeded into a fat, pokey, unathletic adulthood.

You don't really have a basis for comparison - you don't feel "sluggish", you just feel like you have always felt. You have lazy days (too many ;) ) and energetic days. I feel much better now, but until I lost the weight I couldn't comprehend that difference, regardless of how it may have been explained to me. I didn't feel actively "bad", but I do feel better.

Further, there's kind of a disconnect in the mirror. You see yourself as fat, sure, but not necessarily as far overweight as you may be. If you'd told me I needed to lose a 100lbs (when I really needed to), I would've been somewhat incredulous. I didn't see myself as having 100lbs I could lose. Some of us just don't (or, didn't) have a good grasp of the numbers until the weight loss actually started.

When I look at old photos now I see someone who looks much fatter than what I remember seeing in the mirror when I was that fat. It makes me feel very disconnected from the person I was. It's a very curious feeling, to be sure, but not all bad.

125 +/- a couple of pounds ever since I became an adult. I can't gain weight even if I try. I'm maybe 2-3 pounds heavier during the winter when I don't cycle as much. I hated being the skinny guy when I was young... once I got older I decided it wasn't so bad. :)