Ive been doing a lot of miles since I signed up for the M2B. I've had my new bike for a week now and I've clocked 88 miles on the computer. So when will I notice the difference with my weight?!?.
My gut feels smaller put I've put 3lbs on this week. Maybe I've turned some fat into muscle?
What is a good diet for cycling? I'm eating a lot but probably all the wrong things.
Bike riding alone will not make much of a difference unless you reduce your calorie intake as well. It's all to easy to reward a ride with a treat and fail to see that it's an additional caloric intake.
Weightloss will occur when you use more calories than you ingest.
I routinely rode 100km Audaxes, around 25 per year, and did a three week cycle camping tour every summer with no appreciable weight loss not that I measured my weight before and after every ride. I did one before and after weigh in for a Land's End to John O'Groats ride which took seventeen days. I lost two pounds in a thousand miles of cycling.
I've lost over four stones this year through following the Slimming World eating plan. I've said goodby to crisps, sugary fizzy drinks, biscuits, bread, pies, belly pork, sausages, salami and increased my consumption of fresh fruit, vegetables, lean meat, fish and low/zero fat yogurts.
I miss pies the most - they were a weekly treat.
I've not been brilliantly behaved diet wise this summer but have climbed back on the wagon now that I'm back from my last festival of the year.
One last thing....
You can not turn fat into muscle. It's biologically impossible. You can lose fat and gain muscle which is an entirely different thing.