What is the point????

[fossyant]

The old trouser belt notch test is a good one. Its working if you have to keep tightening the belt. Also a couple of months isnt a long time.

Ive dropped two belt notches since last summer. Dunno about weight.

 

[annirak]

I have been trying over the last few months to lose the "half a stone of spare tyre" around my middle regions.

Now, in the last two months, I have doubled my weekly milage from 150ish to 300 ish, cut out all the crap that I eat, and have been counting calories like there is no tomorrow. Even though I am doing a half century every day and a longer ride at weekends, I am still trying to do it within the 2500 cal limit per day for a bloke.

For the last 3 weeks I have even been doing (very hard as it is) the 5:2 diet, just to compliment the regime.

I got on the scales this morning to find I am nearly half a stone UUUUPPPPP

I really do wonder what all the effort is for, and why I bother

And.............if anybody else says to me, "well muscle weighs more than fat" you will get a right royal gobfull.........

Please tell me why I bother people?????

I have been in a foul mood all day today because of this

Based on what I've read, the problem is that your muscles are depleting your glycogen stores, rather than burning fat.

The GCN boys suggest that to defeat this particular problem, there is a training regimen which teaches your body to deplete fat stores:
Go for a 20 minute ride before breakfast, but then eat a healthy, nutritious breakfast.
Relevant link:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbOP0oGdfyQ

 

[Dogtrousers]

Have you been enjoying your cycling?

 

[cyberknight]

The Starvation Reflex

Over millions of years, our ancestors withstood regular famines, establishing complex and quick reactions to prepare themselves for the possibility of food reduction. If you’re getting enough food – often enough – your system doesn’t feel the need to store fat. But the reflex starts into action when you’ve waited too long between snacks or meals on any day. The longer you wait to eat, the more you stimulate the fat-depositing enzymes. When you next eat, more of the food will be processed into fat.

 

[booze and cake]

^this makes sense from my perpsective.

I'm a middle aged guy carrying quite a few extra pounds after a winter of limited riding and carbo rich comfort food. I did an an 85 mile recently after beans on toast for breafast and just a flapjack on route. I bonked badly in last 10 miles, got home, ATE ALL THE THINGS and the next moring still weighed half a stone less than the previous morning. I'm sure thats not a recommended weight loss programme and not something I plan on making a habit of.

From the OP's perspective it sounds like the trade off isn't worth it, fair play thats WAY more disipline than I'd ever manage. Maybe give it another week and if no progress, sod it, get back on the cakes and start smiling agan. Fat and happy beats skinny and miserable in my view.

 

[HarryTheDog]

I feel your pain, I started off just below morbidly obesse and of course the weight originally fell off. ( 22 mile round trip)When I got down to the last half a stone I wanted to lose nothing seemed to work and I was doing similar mileage to you ( 46 miles round trip) and it was just making me ill. Then I had to work in Prague for a few weeks. No bike, so I just walked every evening for 3 hours or so. The fat started to come off again.

 

[speccy1]

Thanks everybody for the responses, some interesting points.

I`m thinking of going back to eating what the hell I want, but keeping up the miles as I seriously enjoy it.

Re the post about cycling before eating in the mornings....I do! I can`t face food as soon as I wake up so I do the ride to work first, and then I am ravenous by the time I get in, then I have my breakfast.

Will try another week, and see what the scales say

Don`t know if it`s related, but I`m not sleeping????

 

[speccy1]

Have you been enjoying your cycling?

Absolutely!!

 

[fossyant]

Not enough food, and not sleeping - probably related.

The folk at work die when they see the amount I eat. Enjoy the ride, enjoy the food. Just cut out some (not all) of the treats.

 

[fossyant]

Life is about keeping fit for a long life. Don't expect big weight loss cycling. I go up/down by the seasons. I commute every day, but winter I go up, summer down. I could look at dropping a bit more weight, but if it comes off it does, if not, oh well.

I don't race but keep myself at 'club level fitness' - just makes you enjoy riding more.

 

[doughnut]

The old trouser belt notch test is a good one. Its working if you have to keep tightening the belt. Also a couple of months isnt a long time.

Ive dropped two belt notches since last summer. Dunno about weight.

I go with the trouser belt test as well.

Unfortunately, my wife and two teenage daughters gang up on me and discuss the state of man breasts whenever they are short of someone to pick on - completely humiliating being judged like this, but what can I do as the only man in the house. Over the last year I've gone from 'retired porn star" through my "Arnold Schwarzenegger" phase, and so on. Right now I am apparently an "overdeveloped 13 year old school girl". And I have been sucked into their game by setting my target as getting them to say "Kierra Knightley".

Back in February I saw John Thomas in the shower without the aid of a mirror, for the first time in years.

Set your own targets and have fun cycling.

 

[Tojo]

I have been trying over the last few months to lose the "half a stone of spare tyre" around my middle regions.

Now, in the last two months, I have doubled my weekly milage from 150ish to 300 ish, cut out all the crap that I eat, and have been counting calories like there is no tomorrow. Even though I am doing a half century every day and a longer ride at weekends, I am still trying to do it within the 2500 cal limit per day for a bloke.

For the last 3 weeks I have even been doing (very hard as it is) the 5:2 diet, just to compliment the regime.

I got on the scales this morning to find I am nearly half a stone UUUUPPPPP

I really do wonder what all the effort is for, and why I bother

And.............if anybody else says to me, "well muscle weighs more than fat" you will get a right royal gobfull.........

Please tell me why I bother people?????

I have been in a foul mood all day today because of this

If I word it differently, would it be better.......your flabby muscle has become more dense after training and therefore you have gained a small amount of weight.....but do you LOOK thinner.....

 

[annirak]

I go with the trouser belt test as well.

Unfortunately, my wife and two teenage daughters gang up on me and discuss the state of man breasts whenever they are short of someone to pick on - completely humiliating being judged like this, but what can I do as the only man in the house. Over the last year I've gone from 'retired porn star" through my "Arnold Schwarzenegger" phase, and so on. Right now I am apparently an "overdeveloped 13 year old school girl". And I have been sucked into their game by setting my target as getting them to say "Kierra Knightley".

Back in February I saw John Thomas in the shower without the aid of a mirror, for the first time in years.

Set your own targets and have fun cycling.

Good grief...

I don't know what to do about the wife, but I'd say it's time to start trolling the daughters...

 

[Dogtrousers]

Absolutely!!

so you're winning!

 

[Dayvo]

Try the 5:2 diet.

Eat WTF you want for five days and on the other two restrict yourself to 800 calories.

http://thefastdiet.co.uk/

And keep up with the cycling, walking, swimming etc.