Does lots of hard cycling give you your correct weight?

[mjr]

You could try selecting from this list of calorie-dense foods instead. It sounds like a lovely diet to me. http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/24/high-calorie-foods_n_4849013.html

I eat quite a lot of most of those, except chocolate (cocoa intolerant), lard (medical advice to avoid animal fat) and minimise bacon and sausage (again, medical advice). I'm still not as heavy as I want to be. I'm getting fed up with it sometimes. Many people would think it fun to be able to eat more, but once you eat as much as you want at each meal, it basically means preparing more meals and doing more food shopping that all eats time.

BTW I don't like the look of their Brown Rice!

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I do find that I always stay constant +- a few pounds. I am 12 stone 10 at 5' 10''. I would like to be around 12 stone, but I am not overly bothered.

I'm about twelve stone as well, but about four inches shorter than you are, if I lost a bit it would make the hills a bit easier but like you I'm not overly bothered about it, I used to worry about my weight but these days I don't worry about it.

 

[Tin Pot]

I'm down to just under 11 stone in weight (6ft 1 inch height). I'm now cycling around 180 miles a week, sometimes doing the what i call hardest miles. By that i mean steep hills as opposed to flat roads. The thing is i've tried to put weight on over the years and sometimes i have gained a few pounds but i'll lose it the following day if i go for a 40 mile ride. I've resigned myself to being 11 stone while i cycle those miles. I could eat peanuts, chocolate, pies and drink around 4 pints of beer in the evening but i'll still be the same weight if i've been for a hard ride that day. Once of a day i would've liked to have gone back up to my top weight of 13.5 stone but i think that is not going to happen while i'm cycling lots of miles a week. I've always been slim, even as a child i was ribbed for being so. Is that it then. Am i meant to be 11 stone and just accept it?

It is *not* as simple as calories in/calories out, and it's not as simple as your body weight.

If you want a target look at body fat % and muscle mass %.

Gaining lean muscle weight is very difficult, and aerobic exercise is not the way to do that.

Eating healthily and gaining muscle weight look at your whole diet, not calories.

 

[Ajax Bay]

It is *not* as simple as calories in/calories out, and it's not as simple as your body weight.

What, exactly, is not as simple as that, in the context of the OP? Agree with "Eating healthily and gaining muscle weight" - see my earlier post..

 

[Pat "5mph"]

cross winds are a problem. I'm being serious as well.

Well, all is relative.
While I understand your problem - I've got the opposite btw,, that is even when I look slim in my clothes I'm really chubby underneath at the moment I'm your weight, which makes me about a stone and a half overweight (10kg) for my height, but still the wind can blow me off the bike.
Pedaling downhill, I normally do that anyway until I spin out.

 

[Tin Pot]

What, exactly, is not as simple as that, in the context of the OP? Agree with "Eating healthily and gaining muscle weight" - see my earlier post..

Accy has a number of assumptions in his post, that there is a "correct weight" being one of them.

The first few response posts state that it's a simple as calories in/calories out to get to the "correct weight".

First of all, there is no such thing as a correct weight. Secondly our bodies respond and metabolise food in different ways, a sole focus on calorific content is outdated.

If Accy wants to gain a stone and doesn't care whether this is all body fat and leads to diabetes, then by all means focus on calories...

 

[Dirk]

........The first few response posts state that it's a simple as calories in/calories out to get to the "correct weight"....

Nobody mentioned 'correct weight'. He simply said he wanted to put weight on. In which case a large increase in his calorific intake would do the job.

 

[mjr]

Gaining lean muscle weight is very difficult, and aerobic exercise is not the way to do that.

Eating healthily and gaining muscle weight look at your whole diet, not calories.

I've looked at it. It seems sort of mostly green and brown. What should I be considering other than colour?

 

[ColinJ]

Nobody mentioned 'correct weight'. He simply said he wanted to put weight on. In which case a large increase in his calorific intake would do the job.

Accy DID - see thread title!

 

[PhilDawson8270]

If Accy wants to gain a stone and doesn't care whether this is all body fat and leads to diabetes, then by all means focus on calories...

Whether this mass is muscle, or fat, will depend on the protein content and how much time he has muscle under tension. Even when you get down to looking at the nutrients it still boils down to, you cannot increase your weight without having a calorie surplus. Regardless of what those calories are made up of.

 

[Dirk]

Accy DID - see thread title!

Oops!

 

[Globalti]

You don't need any of those fancy foods; just sit down and drink a couple of pints of beer and eat a Magnum every evening and your weight will increase.

I've given those up and my weight is decreasing. A looser belt feels good.

 

[mjr]

just sit down and drink a couple of pints of beer

The beer crate's almost empty. It's not working.

and eat a Magnum every evening

They have chocolate on

and your weight will increase.

Nope. Maybe the Magnum's a key catalyst?

 

[cyberknight]

Just look at my avatar. There's your answer.

I have a handy "diet " for that .I have lost 4lbs in the 3 days on the run to the loo , eat 4 pieces of toast a day diet over this weekend .

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Nope. Maybe the Magnum's a key catalyst?

If so then the next best thing to the choccy lolly is to take up work as a PI, favour the Hawaiian shirt and grow a really heavy bushy moustache.