Losing too much weight from cycling
05-18-18, 09:24 PM
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If anyone needs some spare weight I have plenty and am happy to share it with anyone. Also if anyone has a young persons metabolism I will happily take it off your hands!
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05-19-18, 03:29 AM
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An average diet on 2000-2500 calories is for office people doing a bit of exercise on the side. If you work more physically, double and tripple activity, 3000-4000 calories a day is commmon. Few will ever exeed this, recently I read some top athletes eat up to 8000 calories a day, and it has to be hard work in itself; I don't think I could manage it. Years ago my digestion were acting up, then I lost weight and wasn't too well. I tend to gain weight if I'm not keeping up some kind of regular activity. Cycling is for everyone from 6 to 86, it adjust itself naturally, heavy steel bike or carbon frame light weight doesn't matter that much. A heavy bike is noticeably more work uphill, and you have to work much less for speed on a racer, but for most people it is a case of performace and purpose, you are up to ride either type of bike.
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05-19-18, 08:38 AM
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I understand different metabolic rates ... come on folks, we are all reasonably intelligent and experienced adults here.
Fact is, if a person is LOSING weihgt--form exercising ..... go tit? The cat that wphamilton had to work hard to gain weight .... and still could ... in Not related to dramatic weight loss and is in fact exactly the opposite.
The fact that khyricat could eat and burn it all .... through exercise, i might add .... again has nothing to do with Dramatic Weight Loss.
if you have a fast metabolism, you burn a lot of fuel fast. if you have a klsow metabolismn you burn fuel slowly. In either case (as wphamilton saysd himself) the re Are ways to intake more calories than one burns, and gain weight, even while exercising.
And sorry, if all you folks whop PLAYED ENERGY CONSUMING SPORTS had not burned off huge amounts of calories doing those things ... guess what, you'd have gotten fat.
Really, folks ... a person didn't get fat and Ran marathons ... this proves that people who run marathons ... Burn A Lot of Energy, eh?
I am not going to persist. If people really think they can eat nonstop and not exercise---take in many more calories than their basal metabolic rates consume ... and not gain weight .... and then also not gaining weight while running ,marathons is the same as Losing Weight Dramatically ... then that is fine with me.
Fact is, if a person is LOSING weihgt--form exercising ..... go tit? The cat that wphamilton had to work hard to gain weight .... and still could ... in Not related to dramatic weight loss and is in fact exactly the opposite.
The fact that khyricat could eat and burn it all .... through exercise, i might add .... again has nothing to do with Dramatic Weight Loss.
if you have a fast metabolism, you burn a lot of fuel fast. if you have a klsow metabolismn you burn fuel slowly. In either case (as wphamilton saysd himself) the re Are ways to intake more calories than one burns, and gain weight, even while exercising.
And sorry, if all you folks whop PLAYED ENERGY CONSUMING SPORTS had not burned off huge amounts of calories doing those things ... guess what, you'd have gotten fat.
Really, folks ... a person didn't get fat and Ran marathons ... this proves that people who run marathons ... Burn A Lot of Energy, eh?
I am not going to persist. If people really think they can eat nonstop and not exercise---take in many more calories than their basal metabolic rates consume ... and not gain weight .... and then also not gaining weight while running ,marathons is the same as Losing Weight Dramatically ... then that is fine with me.
05-19-18, 10:08 AM
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If you're doing 70 miles a day, camping out and getting rained on, and if you're not eating biscuits and gravy for breakfast, snacking on fried chicken gizzards and eating a large pizza for dinner, you're 'gonna lose weight. The lighter you are to begin with the faster you go the more you burn...
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if you're doing 70 miles a day, camping out and getting rained on, and if you're not eating biscuits and gravy for breakfast, snacking on fried chicken gizzards and eating a large pizza for dinner, you're 'gonna lose weight. The lighter you are to begin with the faster you go the more you burn...
05-22-18, 06:34 AM
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You could very well be totally misjudging how many calories you are actually consuming. Do us a favor and post what your daily diet looks like. Most people have no idea how much or little they actually eat. And, unless you have an underlying medical condition if you want to gain weight than you need to eat more. Really pretty simple.
05-22-18, 07:41 AM
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Beginners will metabolize at a higher rate than people who have formally trained for an appreciable amount of time. The body adapts to the work load and demands placed on it to more efficiently utilize the fuel delivered to it.
It's like a 1/X curve from math class. Weight decreases fast early on, and once you reach a low weight it will really flatten out. Once it does, if you continue to not fuel then your power on the bike will suffer. You won't finish intervals or will get dropped on rides. You can track this. If your work load is the same but your power is down, you're either fatigued from work load or not fueled properly.
I went from 180lb to 160lb in about a year. It's been another year from 160 to almost 150. From upper 150's to lower 150's took a LONG time.
Body compositions also differ. One person's ideal cycling weight and rider type will be a climber, skinny as **** and/or very slow twitchy. Another may be a pursuit or sprinter. They might be 5' 10" tall and weight 175lb and be ideal weight for even grand tour racing.
There's a guy in the gym at work who does just overall fitness, he's about 5' 8" and might weight 135lb. But, he's muscular. Not an old man looking person. Just that's his body's ideal place to be.
It's like a 1/X curve from math class. Weight decreases fast early on, and once you reach a low weight it will really flatten out. Once it does, if you continue to not fuel then your power on the bike will suffer. You won't finish intervals or will get dropped on rides. You can track this. If your work load is the same but your power is down, you're either fatigued from work load or not fueled properly.
I went from 180lb to 160lb in about a year. It's been another year from 160 to almost 150. From upper 150's to lower 150's took a LONG time.
Body compositions also differ. One person's ideal cycling weight and rider type will be a climber, skinny as **** and/or very slow twitchy. Another may be a pursuit or sprinter. They might be 5' 10" tall and weight 175lb and be ideal weight for even grand tour racing.
There's a guy in the gym at work who does just overall fitness, he's about 5' 8" and might weight 135lb. But, he's muscular. Not an old man looking person. Just that's his body's ideal place to be.
05-22-18, 10:34 AM
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At 45 + you will gain , and have a hard time shedding #..
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Joint issues, kids absorbing the free time, easier catching colds/diseases. The vessels can only do so much, as age creeps up, the body goes through a lot of inner politics.
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Just don't use it as a crutch. The 21st century lifestyle makes it all too easy to be "put out to pasture" and replace our bones and muscles with machines. Don't do it. In most cases (even octogenarians), you're capable of a lot more than you think you are.
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I just turned 47 last week and I'm dropping pounds like crazy. In the past month & a half I've lost probably 14 lbs. It's all about your diet, though I think there is some truth that the older you get the slower your metabolism gets. Of course if I stopped riding my bike my metabolism would slow down a lot.
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At 62. my appetite is much less than it used to be. When I'm riding or sailing a lot I have to consciously make sure I eat enough and I need weight training and a protein supplement to keep muscle on above the waist.
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