Decided to check weight this morning. I have put on 5lb in a month.
My weekly riding miles has dropped by a third since summer, but I have been being a little stricter with what I eat so guessed the weight would stay around the same.
What is your average weight gain through winter?

Usually 0lb. More often than not it means I work more/longer in the gym. Obviously there’s an occasional spike after eating 6 mince pies in an afternoon, but I actually seem to do OK in winter. Especially if cold and frosty as I love getting the MTB out on the frozen trails in crisp clear sunshine.

I bought my winter coat in July 😳

WTF is a winter suit ?

I lose weight through winter as that is the training season for events in spring. Summer, beer gardens, holidays, that’s when I get fat

My mistake…I meant coat. Now I now i could have done a sneaky edit, but hey ho.

You get fitted for coats ? Not just walk into a shop and pick one up…

I’m impressed. Did you buy them expensive Italian shoes then on here ?

Every year, almost half a stone! Think it’s my winter coat.

It’s a fine balance in the calories in/calories out war. A few extra evening beers a week, mayo on a couple of lunchtime sandwiches, toast with butter and marmalade snacks late in the evening, a naughty nibble on some chocolate after supper…. and no Wednesday evening hooligan road ride… it soon makes a difference.

I started feeling flabby around the waist and tight in the belt area so cut out all of those extras and managed to get out twice for the last three weekends as well as doing a lot of DIY on the new kitchen project and suddenly I’m back to summer weight and trouser fit.

I think people are biologically predisposed to put weight on in the winter. So even if your activity and diet stayed the same you’d be likely to go up and down through the year.

Let me see if I can find a reference to this.

Both our cats put on about 0.5kg over winter, which is quite a lot as they go from 4.5 to 5kg.

Do you get cold, or feel the cold?

Lots of folks eat to make them warm up y’know.

1/2-3/4 stone roughly. I’ll attempt for a bit less this year. Sort of depends on workload more than seasons though as that can wipe out riding time at any point. But combined with increased winter eating, then the most gain will occur dec/jan.

I have this year as work and uni work is zapping me 🙁 I really want to go and ride more, but I am exhausted. Fingers crossed when Jan comes and I’m only doing one module, I will have a bit more va,va,voooom.

was nearly 2 stone last winter. Put the bikes away in late October. Spent 4 months eating, watching telly, playing computer games and pleasuring myself. When I emerged in March I’d turned into a pasty fat man with claw hands

I’m trying to lose half a stone over winter so I’m nice and light for spring racing and training. Currently at 11 stone, and its slowly coming off when I don’t binge on the weekends.

Probably unhealthy, but I seem to go up and down in a matter of days (or I have crap scales). A few days travelling with work and no biking and I’m up half a stone. Lost after a few days of regular food and biking. My mileage drops over winter but the key seems to be regularity.

What is your average weight gain through winter?

Zero or lose some, this year more than ever. Have gone from XL to L this year and I’m not going back

look at those mince pies and say no

Bah humbug

I normally gain about half a stone, primarily through letting my diet relax after a summer of training for events or challenges of some form.

Need to stay on top of it a bit better this year though!

Normally add half a stone just over christmas but given i’d be adding to the stone I’ve already won since reptile #2 arrived I’d better show a bit of restraint. Started running again though (God I hate running).

Usually weigh 12 stone 10. Borderline obese on BMI. After Christmas can nudge 13 stone, mid summer can tickle 12 stone 7. Briefly.

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Usually weigh 12 stone 10. Borderline obese on BMI

Are you a 12 year old girl ?

usually about half a stone – but am going to try and minimise it this year.

I think it is caused by riding less (do around 350 miles a month in the summer – and less than half that over the winter) and eating more (Quality street/Cheese/red meat)

nothing really, activity levels are about the same, eating doesn’t really vary much. The occasional mince pie or pudding doesn’t make that much of a difference.

This winter I’m determined to transfer my riding activity into running. Makes sense to me as an hours trail running is much easier to fit into shorter daylight hours than several hours of riding.

I’ve managed to drop half a stone this summer and there’s no way I’m getting it back.

Don’t go there……
Lost l0kg last year with the 5 & 2.
Had a shite year and I found them again 🙂
Was just thinking about the thought of winter and putting even more weight on so will have to get my head in gear and restart the 5 & 2 again.
Next week. 🙂

I used to believe this myth, aye i always put on weight in the winter, but I’ll lose it again in the summer. 15 years on, I’ve just realised I’m a greedy bastard! 😆

The last two winters I’ve put on a stone, usually during Jan & Feb, due to a lack of commuting (the roads I commute on were too flooded last year and too icy the previous)

In preparation for this winter I have built a man-cave-of-pain, loosely disguised as a shed, and put a turbo-trainer on my Xmas list.

I usually put on a couple of kg over Xmas: a combination of relaxing after the main running season and all that food is a killer…

Hmmm. Was aiming earlier in the year to be down to 11 stone by now. But failed, due to a lapse for a couple of months. Just getting back on it now, so aiming for 11st by Christmas (got 7lbs to lose).

Then just need to keep it off.

Not gonna be easy with all the parties & socialising. Especially as the exercise seems to have tailed right off at the moment.

I’m off this Sunday for 8 days in Lagos and 5 in Kinshasa so while there I know I will be guzzling copious quantites of the excellent local beers and eating fatty hotel food, with zero exercise – unless I get lucky with an AF stewardess down by the pool. Hotel gyms are SO boring and the exercise bike saddles always too squishy and set up wrong so I will put on a bit of weight.

My Nigerian nemesis:

And in the Congo:

A few pounds usually, less of an eye on the (broken) bathroom scales, more of a check what wobbles in the mirror.

Molgrips
Let me see if I can find a reference to this.

anything?

I read the “Racing Weight” book which advised not to stray over 7% of your racing weight. So if your race weight is 100kg, 107kg is the max you should reach during the off-season. Don’t think this is based on anything scientific, but it works for me.

There was something in there about the average weight gain for an adult male over the holidays being 15lbs (~6.5kgs). For a sedentary person that adds up to a lot of weight over the years!

6.5 kilos? Blimey I’m 72 buck naked and about 74 dressed and shod, I’d be worried if I gained 6.5.

Couple of kilos every winter spose I must be doing something different, monthy ride average drops from maybe 6/700k to 3/400k, less salads more pies?
Don’t worry about it now it’ll go in April/May.

last year was very bad for me, at the start of Jan i was 87kg, I’d put on about 10 kilos since November. lots of hard work followed, and after getting to about 75 kg, a good, but not great road / TT season followed, winning a crit and doing well in quite a few TTs

I’m now 71kg (I’m 5’11) and I’m happy I’m where I need to be for the cross season, and then hitting next year running rather than wobbling. I’ve already started a 20 week TT training plan, so, In answer to the OPs question, if I’m not careful I put on loads, but this year I’ll be staying exactly where I am…

Weights been static for years, irrespective of how active I am, non sedentary job and toddlers help I guess

Are you a 12 year old girl ?

Nope, don’t you usually ask this on that other forum?

I lose weight in the winter.

Two years ago I was 14st 4, that went down to 13st 10 and now I am 13st 2.

Blinking IBS killing my appetite doesn’t help much though.

Absolutely zero til a couple of days before christmas, then it becomes all out war between eating my own weight in sweets, mince pies and pigs in blankets, all washed down with beer… and riding most days over the 2 weeks holiday I get. Last year I screwed this up by breaking 2 ribs on hogmanay so spent the remaining week of the holidays eating til my crunched in sides were nicely supported, and ended up putting on over a stone. Which isn’t that big a deal for people that don’t weigh 9 stone 😆