Cycling & Weight loss

[just jim]

I'm having trouble shifting the last persistent belly fat. Fat is coming off of everywhere else, even my hands! But refuses to go from around the middle.

Beer is the worst thing. I seem to find white wine effects me less, but I really aught to cut that out as well! Fiancée is a bad influence tho, literally holding me down and making me drink a bottle on a Friday night!

Still, I've lost about 2 stone 5lb, 4 inches around my waist, 2 inches off my neck.

Yesterday I carried the 3 year old and realised that i was carrying about as much weight as I'd lost! I don't know how I was even moving around!

That could be visceral fat you are meaning - which is hard to shift by all accounts, including my own!

 

[Crankarm]

It's pretty simple. Eat less, or eat more healthily, ie cut out all the shoot totally, be ruthless. Exercise more. This is it. The simplest plans are the best. The biggest obstacle to losing weight and keeping trim is lying to yourself about what you actually eat. You need to be single minded.

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

It's pretty simple. Eat less, or eat more healthily, ie cut out all the shoot totally, be ruthless. Exercise more. This is it. The simplest plans are the best. The biggest obstacle to losing weight and keeping trim is lying to yourself about what you actually eat. You need to be single minded.

Amen to that!

Posting on forums, fiddling with "apps" etc etc are all diversions: you know what you need to do, so stop f'ing about and do it.

Do you really want to lose weight or do you just think you should?

If it's the former then you will do it; if it's the latter, I guarantee that one year from now you will be posting on forums for weight loss advice.

 

[Sittingduck]

Perhaps some people need to 'fiddle with an app' to get them to be disciplined enough to log everything consumed and to stick to their goals. Certainly this is the case, in my own experience.

My point is that it's all well and good for people to say stuff like, just get on with doing it and you don't need new fangled websites or calorie trackers but if it works for some people, why not...? Everybody needs different methods and I wish them success, regardless of how they go about doing it.

 

[GetAGrip]

It's pretty simple. Eat less, or eat more healthily, ie cut out all the shoot totally, be ruthless. Exercise more. This is it. The simplest plans are the best. The biggest obstacle to losing weight and keeping trim is lying to yourself about what you actually eat. You need to be single minded.

That is just so true!! I should know, sometimes, I can't believe a word I say.

 

[SquareDaff]

Don't cut anything out - just eat smaller portions. No point in making yourself a miserable thin person by abstaining when you can be a happy thin person by just eating less of what you like and exercising.

 

[Sittingduck]

Buying an electronic food scale is a worthwhile investment.

 

[srw]

Buying an electronic food scale is a worthwhile investment.

Probably the best single piece of advice here.

 

[cloggsy]

I started out using MyFitnessPal and cycling, I've lost some but thought with cycling and eating well but its the weekends which are killing me .... Hmmm.. Beer....

I'm a fellow MFP'er too... Perhaps you could add me there too (cloggsy71)?

 

[Scilly Suffolk]

Perhaps some people need to 'fiddle with an app' to get them to be disciplined enough to log everything consumed and to stick to their goals. Certainly this is the case, in my own experience.

My point is that it's all well and good for people to say stuff like, just get on with doing it and you don't need new fangled websites or calorie trackers but if it works for some people, why not...? Everybody needs different methods and I wish them success, regardless of how they go about doing it.

I didn't say you don't need them: if it helps, then all well and good.

My point is that no amount of gadgets will actually lose weight: a healthy diet and exercise will.

The cold, hard truth is that weight loss is a long, slow process that requires strength of character to see it through.

Without the willpower and determination to achieve your goal, there is nothing with a battery or a .com on the end that will do it for you.

 

[Leodis]

How many kCal do you assume you burn on your 55min commute?

MFP states 550 but I usually put 450 as Endomondo states around 430

 

[amaferanga]

MFP states 550 but I usually put 450 as Endomondo states around 430

If that's for the round trip (55min) then that's a very sensible estimate. If that's each way though then I think it's probably over - Endomondo can be very optimistic with its figures.

 

[jowwy]

Slower-Speed Cycling

You will burn 355 calories every 30 minutes if you weigh 185 lbs. and travel at a speed of between 12 and 13.9 mph.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/294355-calories-burned-while-cycling/#ixzz1r4Lg77Mi​

 

[lanternerouge]

The first thing is an honest appraisal of the calories that's going in.

The second is working out what needs to be cut out to manage it.

Then, and only then, can the exercise you do reduce that.

Vernon's doing great this year with progress. Me, I'm on a 'maintenance' after last year and it's going well.

For me, I cut out alcohol completely and only had occasional treats. That, combined with lots of cycling, meant I lost 1-2lbs a week for 6 months = 3 stone+ lost.

top effort that DC. Need to do same

 

[DCLane]

I'm having trouble shifting the last persistent belly fat. Fat is coming off of everywhere else, even my hands! But refuses to go from around the middle.

That's because it's usually the last fat to go. I've lost everything else but a bit that hasn't shifted there.

It'll go eventually!