Weight loss

[MarkF]

I didn't realise my thread would cause so much discussion!!

For the record - i eat reasonably healthy but put on some weight about 4 years ago that i'm looking to lose - I am probably 2st overweight (14st vs 12st ideal) but its been constant for the past 4 years. I guess my intake is the same as my output hence the constant weight. What I'm doing now is introducing more exercise into the mix to try and lose it.

I'm currently doing 2x 1hr rides during the week with a longer one at the weekends - but was wondering if i was better off doing a even longer one at the weekends.

Badger, I was about a stone overweight before I cycled across Spain, I am 50 and 6'1" so it was no big deal but I wanted to shift it, I was cycling quite a bit and eating ok, my weight remained static, has done for over 2 yaers..

I read the calorie deficit comments, hmmm. I doubt if I ever ate anywhere near 2000 calories in a day for the first 2 weeks. Toast and cereal for breakfast, self made baguette with either tuna, cheese, or salmon along with fruit for lunch, in the evening maybe one small tapas, plate of olives maybe. I was cycling 6 hours a day regularly, some days more. I was running a huge calorie deficit every day. I felt good and I felt better with every day, if my cousin had have agreed I'd have happily upped the daily mileage as I was stopping when I didn't yet want to. Whilst cycling I only drank water and nibbled fruit. By the time I'd got to Seville I'd lost 5kg and I felt bleedin great! I was never tired and never lacked energy apart for one bad day entirely down to alcohol intake.

 

[LosingFocus]

ie: If your maintenance intake is 3000 per day - you deficit yourself to 2500 - then burn 1500 on a long ride. Don't you see how the maths doesn't work there? The deficit is huge and eventually unsustainable,you have to make that back up. You've essentially left 1000 calories for your body to run on for a day,that includes just breathing - working - recovering - mending itself. It will lead eventually to breakdown,very quickly if on a regular basis

3000! Are you having a laugh? I'm usually taking in between 1100 and 1600 calories per day, usually burn of 400-600 riding/jogging 4 times per week. I cant imagine anyone outside of elite sports people who need 3000 per day.

 

[Sittingduck]

I am

3000! Are you having a laugh? I'm usually taking in between 1100 and 1600 calories per day, usually burn of 400-600 riding/jogging 4 times per week. I cant imagine anyone outside of elite sports people who need 3000 per day.

I am consuming around 3k per day at the moment. I figure about this amount to maintain, maybe a slight loss.

 

[BSRU]

3000! Are you having a laugh? I'm usually taking in between 1100 and 1600 calories per day, usually burn of 400-600 riding/jogging 4 times per week. I cant imagine anyone outside of elite sports people who need 3000 per day.

An average guy requires 2500 calories a day, a British Army daily ration pack is 4000 calories, less than 1000 and you would be starving yourself.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

3000! Are you having a laugh? I'm usually taking in between 1100 and 1600 calories per day, usually burn of 400-600 riding/jogging 4 times per week.

Congratulations you're undereating!

I cant imagine anyone outside of elite sports people who need 3000 per day.

But could you imagine them living on 1100-1600cals per day?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

An average guy requires 2500 calories a day, a British Army daily ration pack is 4000 calories, less than 1000 and you would be starving yourself.

At last,someone who understands.

 

[LosingFocus]

An average guy requires 2500 calories a day, a British Army daily ration pack is 4000 calories, less than 1000 and you would be starving yourself.

Amazingly, Im not in the army nor am I built like your average squadie (a lot less muscle bulk to carry about)

 

[BSRU]

Apparently Wiggins is consuming 9000 calories a day.

 

[LosingFocus]

Congratulations you're undereating!

Aye, thats what you do to lose weight.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Aye, thats what you do to lose weight.

Unfortunately for you it isn't.

 

[black'n'yellow]

Aye, thats what you do to lose weight.

what, under-eat..?

 

[black'n'yellow]

Apparently Wiggins is consuming 9000 calories a day.

during three-week stage races perhaps. Not every day of the year though, or else he'd be as big as a house....

 

[LosingFocus]

what, under-eat..?

Yes, eat less that I used to. I used to eat about 2.5k per day, ballooned to almost 16st. Now, controlling intake I have dropped to just over 11st. Not rocket science. Unless you are really really active, you dont need 2.5k or 3k calories per day.

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Yes, eat less that I used to. I used to eat about 2.5k per day, ballooned to almost 16st. Now, controlling intake I have dropped to just over 11st. Not rocket science. Unless you are really really active, you dont need 2.5k or 3k calories per day.

Eating less and undereating are very different things.

 

[LosingFocus]

Eating less and undereating are very different things.

Rhetoric is all well and good, but you are not backing it up with anything. I've stated that currently I'm on about 1100-1600 per day, then burn between 400-600 4 times per week on short bike rides or runs. I've lost weight, I'm not ill, I'm functioning fine (in fact I've never had such... "focused" mental ability), leading a normal life fine (working 8-9 hours per day, looking after 2 young kids, looking after a house etc). If I went back to 2500 calories per day I would be massive again. That would be an extra 7500 per week!