Weight Watcher's Thread

[RAYMOND]

Personally just riding a bike regularly keeps me in trim, I tend to eat more too after a ride yet still stay the same weight,even tone up.
Surely people(women especially ) need look no further than cycling.
Get out regularly and get up to speed 14/15 mph for a hour 3 times a week.
Over a year you'll notice the difference in weight,fitness and health.
These diets they go on every year obviously don't work .

 

[ALltheds]

Feel like I'm 16 stone at the mo. Would like to get to 13-14'ish for the CycleChat meet. Let's see how we go ...

Height - 5ft 11in / 181cm:

2008-01-08 21:54 - 15st 6.9lb / 98.4 kg - BMI 30.4
2008-01-25 21:13 - 15st 4.5lb / 97.3 kg - BMI 29.7
2008-02-12 22:17 - 15st 7.6lb / 98.7 kg - BMI 30.4
2008-03-01 18:30 - 15st 7.3lb / 98.6 kg - BMI 30.1
2008-03-07 20:05 - 15st 6.0lb / 98.0 kg - BMI 29.9
2008-03-31 20:43 - 15st 6.9lb / 98.4 kg - BMI 30.4
2008-04-04 18:58 - 15st 4.5lb / 97.3 kg - BMI 29.7
2008-05-11 15:37 - 15st 5.8lb / 97.9 kg - BMI 29.5
2008-06-23 22:45 - 15st 8.4lb / 99.1 kg - BMI 30.2

Hmmmm ... I'm seeing a trend here, and it's not a downward one. Let's see how the next couple of months go ... back home now, flood repair work complete, and feeling a lot more chipper.

2008-07-09 19:03 - 15st 2.5lb / 96.4 kg - BMI 29.8
2008-12-07 13:55 - 16st 3.0lb / 103.18 kg - BMI 31.7
2009-05-25 13:46 - 16st 8.0lb / 105.30 kg - BMI 31.8
2009-06-06 14:14 - 16st 4.0lb / 103.80 kg - BMI 31.7

Unfortunately a change in personal circumstances has led to me being "off the bike" for several months. This will hopefully be changing back to normal shortly, and I'm now resolved to doing something about my ever expanding waistline. I think I'll leave my next weigh-in report until I have something more positive to post ...

... zoom forward to 2011 and two weeks ago I weighed 17st 4lbs.

2011-04-16 - 16st 13lb.

Perhaps you can help, I would like to know which type of bike would be suitable for me, I am 5ft6 and weight 320lbs, also bearing in mind I would like to have a trailer for my 3 year old

 

[Rob3rt]

Personally just riding a bike regularly keeps me in trim, I tend to eat more too after a ride yet still stay the same weight,even tone up.
Surely people(women especially ) need look no further than cycling.
Get out regularly and get up to speed 14/15 mph for a hour 3 times a week.
Over a year you'll notice the difference in weight,fitness and health.
These diets they go on every year obviously don't work .

In terms of weight loss, 3 hours a week will burn next to nothing in the grand scheme of things, approx 1800 kCal. That is on average 260 kCal a day. Eat a couple of biscuits less and you will create a bigger deficit.

 

[Shaun]

Perhaps you can help, I would like to know which type of bike would be suitable for me, I am 5ft6 and weight 320lbs, also bearing in mind I would like to have a trailer for my 3 year old

@ALltheds I'm not really the best person to advise - but if you start a thread in the Bikes forum you should get plenty of good advice.

 

[Fubar]

I would like some advise.
I am severely overweight and would like to get into cycling.
I was thinking of getting an adult trike but they are to expensive, and nobody can tell me which is the best.
Now I am going for a bike, but need to know which one is the best.
I am 5ft6 Nd weight about 320lbs.
I also am thinking of getting a trailer as I have a 3 year old that will be coming around ( poor thing) with me.
I am going to see my doc in the next week or so to find out if this would be ok for me.
PLEASE HELP. I want to get started.

Hi, just noticed your post - welcome to the forum. There is a guy on here @gb55 (I think) who lost loads of weight through cycling - he has a sticky in this section and a website: http://39stonecyclist.com/

I'm not suggesting you're 39 stone, but it will give you a good starting point. In terms of bikes it's difficult to advise, you really need to find a good bike shop and see what you are comfortable with - you might find to begin with a mountain bike (MTB) type suits you better, once you have been riding a bit and the weight comes off you will be after a road bike! Start off slowly, see if you can cover a mile, then 2, 5, 10 etc (you get the idea!) you'd be amazed how quickly you can progress. There is no magic formula, eat less move around more - easy to say, much much harder to do. Good luck, keep checking in and let us know how you are getting on. Regards, Mark

 

[ColinJ]

Hi, just noticed your post - welcome to the forum. There is a guy on here @gb55 (I think) who lost loads of weight through cycling - he has a sticky in this section and a website: http://39stonecyclist.com/

@gb155!

 

[Fubar]

@gb155!

Cheers! I was guessing...

 

[Rob3rt]

Down to 12st 1lb, should easily be able to drop another kg or 2 by the National Hill Climb Champs at the end of October. Preparation is going well Weight down, power stable (and for some durations, up) and 2 decent results that should hopefully get me a ride!

Thinking of buying a juicer too!

 

[sazzaa]

I'm cycling 4 days a week and doing at least one run and a gym visit and I'm sure I'm putting on weight due to the huge appetite it's giving me - I'm constantly hungry! Only do 7.5k each way to work but it's a big hill in between my home and work and takes around 25 minutes on a good day. I'm not hugely overweight but my no means slim and my weight is simply not budging. I eat fairly healthily too...

Meh.

 

[RWright]

I'm cycling 4 days a week and doing at least one run and a gym visit and I'm sure I'm putting on weight due to the huge appetite it's giving me - I'm constantly hungry! Only do 7.5k each way to work but it's a big hill in between my home and work and takes around 25 minutes on a good day. I'm not hugely overweight but my no means slim and my weight is simply not budging. I eat fairly healthily too...

Meh.

Ride more. You might want to count your calories too. Good luck.

 

[RWright]

After week 37.

from 203 to 200.8.

Still waiting to see the sub 200 mark, hopefully it won't be long now. I hit a wall the past few weeks. Busy schedule, fast food, ice cream, not as much riding and exercise. I hope to get back to better eating habits but this time of year I start wanting the higher calorie foods, it seems like I have always been like that. I will get it under control, I stopped buying ice cream. . I got more good medical news so things are still moving in the right direction, even if it is going slowly.

I decided my exercise needed a little boost so I got a mountain bike. Quite a difference from the normal road bike work out. I have just been on a couple of tracks and the more intermediate one I was on today was a hell of a work out for me. I am slow and have a lot to learn about mountain biking but it is fun for a change of pace. I think it will help keep me motivated as well. Hope everyone else is having success too.

 

[sazzaa]

Ride more. You might want to count your calories too. Good luck.

Finding the time is the problem! I try not to count calories, it's unhealthy behaviour... I do try and eat a lot of clean food though!

 

[Rob3rt]

Finding the time is the problem! I try not to count calories, it's unhealthy behaviour... I do try and eat a lot of clean food though!

Make time!

No it is not!

WTF :S


Making excuses, now that is unhealthy behaviour!

 

[VamP]

Down to 12st 1lb, should easily be able to drop another kg or 2 by the National Hill Climb Champs at the end of October. Preparation is going well Weight down, power stable (and for some durations, up) and 2 decent results that should hopefully get me a ride!

Thinking of buying a juicer too![/quote]

Don't tell the UCI!

 

[ColinJ]

Despite my best attempts to sabotage myself by eating too much chocolate, and taking only irregular exercise, my weight is starting to trickle down again after a long plateau period. My dodgy scales now read 13-6, which might be more like 13-10 in reality. (That is down from a pre-illness high of 16-9, true weight 16-13?)