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As a starting point try a juice detox diet
What toxins are you removing? Has your liver stopped functioning for a while?
I've not ridden (or raced) for two years due to having two kids. During that time I've eaten junk and drunk loads. This has left me bloated, sluggish and feeling like crap.
Decided to do the Juice detox just to try 'reset' myself and reduce the bloat etc.
So far its working for me, I feel significantly better and gives me a good base to build from.
Maybe not for everyone but its helped me break a poor diet cycle
The best "diet", and the one humans most likely evolved (from Frugivore) is a Faunivore. Fruits, nuts, vegetables and eggs (possibly eggs daily and main source of animal protein). Also some grains, honey, fish, shoreline creatures like mussels, birds.
We also have an aerobic and anaerobic energy system that requires regular revving up. I.e at least daily. Depending on activity you can eat more or less food.
IMO
Vary your training a bit, not necessarily more but different, running, footie, swimming, weights, intensity stuff, whatever
Man up!
Given your already high level of activity, the question is whether you have any fat to lose?
If not you'd have to shed some unwanted muscle, which I have previously managed to do quite successfully by not fuelling properly during long hard rides...
Either way, ignore fad diets, just eat better/less and ride longer/harder.
Chances are you're not consuming as few calories as you think (says nutrition expert wife).
Either way, ignore fad diets, just eat better/less and ride longer/harder.Chances are you're not consuming as few calories as you think (says nutrition expert wife).
this +100
Some more on that study: http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2014/03/animal-protein-as-bad-as-smoking/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed
It reads like a chapter in Bad Science.
No-ones mentioned fasted riding.
When you say
for shorter rides, that says you may not have the fuel/fat burning efficiency that you could have? Do you need those sugary things for a shorter (sub 4-5hrs) ride? 10-12hrs a week of what you describe will mean you're already fit and not carrying much excess weight?While riding I fuel on Jelly Babies and SIS Go or water
Getting out for an hour or 2 at a middling to brisk pace on nothing but a black coffee w/o sugar then eating when you get back can shift weight pretty well ime. 1-3x a week if it can fit in.
That and maybe a longer ride 1x a week most weeks may increase your ability to burn fat and be less reliant on Jelly Babies etc, it could make a difference over a 12-24hr ride also (I've not raced 12-24s but have done plenty of my own riding over that duration and this is what helped me get there from my past habits of eating all the time when riding and being bonk-prone. A friend who does 24s has used the fasted rides to get more efficient over the last few years also).