Crankarm
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An electronic food scale? Right, down to Argos on saturday morning.
Cycling & Weight loss
- Thread starter Leodis
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An electronic food scale? Right, down to Argos on saturday morning.
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
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The evidence shows you're actually doing pretty well at shifting the belly fat. It's just that you've got, y'know, quite a lot of it to shift... you're obviously doing the right things though, so you just have to keep it up. It will go eventually.
d.
smutchin
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1.5lb a week is a pretty ambitious rate of weight loss. Bear in mind that's the equivalent of going without food altogether for two days a week. All the more reason to make sure you use up all your daily calorie allowance.
Also, don't worry if you go a bit over the 1490 some days - you're 750 calories under your base rate every day, so if you consume, say, 1800 calories one day, that's still a substantial net deficit.
d.
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Leodis
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Yeah its the round trip, 23 going and 32ish uphill back. Though it doesnt take into consideration the weight in my backpack.
Yeah I have lowered to 1lbs a week after checking my BMR and Total Daily Energy Expenditure (TDEE) which leaves me with cycling at 2300 (roughly) cals a day and on non cycling days at 1780.
amaferanga
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- Bolton
No you won't. 700 kCal an hour equates to a power output of around 200W. It doesn't take 200W to travel at 12mph, or even 14mph, unless it's up hill all the way. Also, the difference between cycling at 12mph and 14mph would equate to quite a significant difference in power output and therefore calorie expenditure.
I think the OP doing the right thing with his calorie estimate - its probably an underestimate, but better that than a hopeless overestimate.
as you can see i've just copied and pasted that from the LIVESTRONG website
smutchin
Cat 6 Racer
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And we all know that Lance is never wrong.
I estimate 500cals/hour for 15mph.
710cals/hour for 12mph does seem a bit on the high side.
d.
i'm pretty sure that lance isnt writing the stuff - but if you wanna hate for it be my guest
Thomk
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smutchin
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MattHB
Proud Daddy
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- Deepest darkest Dorset
I'm proud of how I've done. I'm just very self critical I suppose. I did have a lot to shift too!
spen666
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Great for measuring out the drugs to ensure you get maximum profit for your drugs
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
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- Meanwood, Leeds
Cycling alone does not make you any thinner. I know so because for the past seven years I've been doing 100km and 200km audax rides, done five or six coast to coast cycle tours, LEJOG, JOGLE, Channel to Med, Eurovelo six in two installments from Nantes to Passau all as unsupported cycle camping tours and the best i managed to do weight loss wise was to lose two punds during a LEJOG.
This year I bit the bullet and joined Slimming World. I follow their Extra Easy eating plan - no calorie counting, no ingredient weighing but pleanty of fruit and veg, lean meats eggs and fish. There is an absence of sugar, beer, biscuits, sugary fizzy drinks, sweets, butter and oils but to be honest the change is barely noticeable.
The only thing that I truly miss is pies.
The results have been great. I have lost three stones and two pounds in thirteen weeks. I've never felt hungry and I've enjoyed my 100km audaxes - six since February. Fellow members of Slimming World express surprise when they put on weight at the weigh in - they are simply kidding themselves when they say that they have stuck to the eating plans religiously. I don't think that there's any mistique behind the Slimming World Extra Easy eating plan - it's packed with low calorie but filling foods that avoid the carb spikes that cause insulin to be released creating hunger pangs and a further craving for calories.
I expect to have put a few pounds on over the past week or so as I've had a birthday, eaten out a few times and am currently feeding a cold with whisky and tasty comestibles. It will be back to the Extra Easy eating plan today - egg, bacon, beans and mushrooms for breakfast, spinach and lentil dahl for lunch and steak, chips and salad for the evening meal with fruit for snacking.
This year I bit the bullet and joined Slimming World. I follow their Extra Easy eating plan - no calorie counting, no ingredient weighing but pleanty of fruit and veg, lean meats eggs and fish. There is an absence of sugar, beer, biscuits, sugary fizzy drinks, sweets, butter and oils but to be honest the change is barely noticeable.
The only thing that I truly miss is pies.
The results have been great. I have lost three stones and two pounds in thirteen weeks. I've never felt hungry and I've enjoyed my 100km audaxes - six since February. Fellow members of Slimming World express surprise when they put on weight at the weigh in - they are simply kidding themselves when they say that they have stuck to the eating plans religiously. I don't think that there's any mistique behind the Slimming World Extra Easy eating plan - it's packed with low calorie but filling foods that avoid the carb spikes that cause insulin to be released creating hunger pangs and a further craving for calories.
I expect to have put a few pounds on over the past week or so as I've had a birthday, eaten out a few times and am currently feeding a cold with whisky and tasty comestibles. It will be back to the Extra Easy eating plan today - egg, bacon, beans and mushrooms for breakfast, spinach and lentil dahl for lunch and steak, chips and salad for the evening meal with fruit for snacking.
MattHB
Proud Daddy
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- Deepest darkest Dorset
I have to partly disagree with vernon that cycling doesn't make you thinner. If your lifestyle stays the same but you inject high levels of exercise the calorie burn will have an effect, how much of an effect will differ from person to person.
To make a decent go of it though you do really neeD to change diet as well. For me a change in diet was almost a byproduct of cycling as the fitter I got the healthier food i started to crave. My fruit intake went up dramatically and replaced everything I used to snack on.
The fact of the matter is is that different people respond differently to excercise, some people super respond, some don't and have to do loads more on top. I think I'm one of the lucky ones.
To make a decent go of it though you do really neeD to change diet as well. For me a change in diet was almost a byproduct of cycling as the fitter I got the healthier food i started to crave. My fruit intake went up dramatically and replaced everything I used to snack on.
The fact of the matter is is that different people respond differently to excercise, some people super respond, some don't and have to do loads more on top. I think I'm one of the lucky ones.
Sittingduck
Legendary Member
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Cycling will help you lose weight, providing you do not eat a lot more, thus neutralising extra calories burned during the rides. This is the key thing.
You need to be careful about food intake - that doesn't mean cutting out anything, just being careful and honest about your consumption. If your food intake remains pretty much the same (small increase is ok) then going from no exercise to cycling regularly will help but all too often people start cycling, lose a stone or two then think this is great and easy. They start to eat more and the loss ceases and in some cases turns into a gain.
It's a great way to burn calories and obviously the benefits extend to fitness other than pure weightloss. Vernon is right in that cycling alone will not miraculously make you lose weight. You need to take diet into account... big time!
Good luck wit the plans, Gents
You need to be careful about food intake - that doesn't mean cutting out anything, just being careful and honest about your consumption. If your food intake remains pretty much the same (small increase is ok) then going from no exercise to cycling regularly will help but all too often people start cycling, lose a stone or two then think this is great and easy. They start to eat more and the loss ceases and in some cases turns into a gain.
It's a great way to burn calories and obviously the benefits extend to fitness other than pure weightloss. Vernon is right in that cycling alone will not miraculously make you lose weight. You need to take diet into account... big time!
Good luck wit the plans, Gents
