Breakfast...

[Arch]

Both - Porridge before and muesli after. Both with a cup of tea.

If you made up a double batch of muesli and milk, and ate half and put the other half in a suitable sealed bag and carried it in a pocket against your body so it heated up and jiggled about, you could have muesli before and porridge after, with no cooking effort!

 

[cupoftea]

I don't normally have breakfast I don't normally feel I need it, I'm only cycling for 50ish minutes, but at the end of a week I might have a boiled egg before setting off

 

[stu20001]

I read an article in a cycling mag a few months ago that said doing an hour's ride before breakfast is great fat-burning exercise.

I have tried this but my fat remains..

 

[515mm]

The most dramatic personal weight loss I have encountered is the most recent. Two weeks of four days commuting(14 miles each way) per week on a breakfast of half a pint of pure fruit smoothie half an hour before departure. Upon arrival, porridge and protein shake. (My legs don't hurt nearly as much when I use this on cycling days.)

Result?

Half a stone off and a 9% drop in my ride time. The feeling of having so much extra power on the flat, speed and nimbleness (is there such a word?) on the hills is really rather lovely. I'm enjoying myself enormously at the moment. So annoying I have to take the car tomorrow.

Still; what doesn't kill you.........

 

[goo_mason]

don't worry. give it a year or two and "recent research" will tell is it's ok to take vitamins again. haven't you noticed how a lot of research, especially nutritional that gets into popular press, cyclically contradicts itself?

Exactly. One minute something is good for you, the next it isn't. Then it is. And then it's not. It's like a medical research pantomime ("Oh no it isn't ! Oh yes it is !") I'll take my chances on this one. Since I started taking zinc my every-two-months-get-a-filthy-cold routine has stopped. And that started to happen long before I cycled. Maybe it could be psychosomatic, but I'm not going to go back to those days again.

And my garlic tabs are appreciated by those who didn't find my previous love of heavy garlic use in my cooking very pleasant. Now I still get the garlic in the system without having to use it so often in my cooking !

 

[gambatte]

Couple of weetabix, soon as I'm up. 30-45mins later I'm on the bike.

 

[HLaB]

I don't commute far enough (about 4.5 miles) to warrant any more, so I only have brekkie before I go.

 

[stu20001]

The most dramatic personal weight loss I have encountered is the most recent. Two weeks of four days commuting(14 miles each way) per week on a breakfast of half a pint of pure fruit smoothie half an hour before departure. Upon arrival, porridge and protein shake. (My legs don't hurt nearly as much when I use this on cycling days.)

What do you eat for lunch?

 

[gambatte]

Dinner tends to be couscous, with whatever I have fetched to throw in, chicken, cheese, whatever

 

[515mm]

@Stu20001

Jacket spud with tuna or cottage cheese or occasionally with Stagg low fat chilli(nice!) If I can be bothered with the faff, a huge salad with couscous or brown rice and leftover chicken or pork.

I arrive in work at about 8.30 and have breakfast as discussed/get changed etc. I start work at 9.30 which gives me plenty of time. Lunch will then be about 11.30. At 2.30/3pm I'm peckish again so I'll have a banana and a handful of nuts -

We knock off at 5.30 (which is time to eat again!) so I use a sports drink for the way home (GO electrolyte) When I get in, choccy EAS protein shake/shower/change/prepare dinner of meat with enormous quantities of vegetables - no carbs though.

Hope this helps

 

[gambatte]

Hmmmm, Stagg chilli. Calling at the supermarket tomorrow methinks!

 

[Joe]

Porridge and coffee before I leave, then a breakfast bar type thing (or similar) when I get in.

 

[gambatte]

a breakfast bar type thing (or similar) when I get in.

I've always got some of these in the drawer 'just in case'. Not too imaginative regarding choice tho'
Went for possibly the original - 'Tracker', nut version, not the chocolate.

 

[stu20001]

too many carbs is my problem - I'm a carbs addict. Love them potatoes!

 

[Jacomus-rides-Gen]

What research?