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Is I Dave still on here? His regime will shift the excess daddispads in short order
What are the positives that these cakes and crisps give you?
Are you kidding me? I love eating cakes and kettle crisps, it makes me happy!
Clearly I am aware that it's not a good thing, so I try not to eat too many and exercise a lot to stay in reasonable shape. Of course if I was treating it like smoking, I would find a way to give them up, but my view is that I'm only here once and I'm going to try and enjoy it! 🙂
Might be worth lowering your heart-rate during some sessions to keep it in the fat burning zone. It's slow going at first but your pace should increase, whilst still burning fat. That should avoid the bonking.
It also might be worth recording exactly what you eat over a day or two to see what the nutritional mix is.
Ignoring all the diet and fitness advice here for a moment, I notice you're making a couple of fundamental mistakes in your use of MyFitnessPal, that a lot of people do and double counting your calories available.
If you calculate your base calorie value in MFP as 'active' or 'highly active' this [b]includes[/b] the calories you will burn through exercise. So from your original post, this is giving you 2900 calories for the day and that is it. No more gained through exercise that you can eat.
Now this works fine for 'normal' people with an active job, say builders, but doesn't work for people like us who do specific exercise.
The way for us to use MFP is to look at our lifestyle [b]excluding[/b] exercise and use that to set the base calories in MFP. In my case I sit at a desk all day and do zip else. You then use whatever device appropriate to track the calorie burn of your exercise on a daily basis and add that to the base calories. So in this model you do 'eat back your exercise'. This method works much better for athletes as your calorie burn tends to vary on different days due to different workouts. Using me as an sample, my base level was 1960 calories as a 6'3" 'sedentary' person weighing 16st and wanting to shift 1lb a week (500 calorie per day deficit). During the week I'd do 6 runs, but these vary from 3 mile recovery runs, that burn about 350 calories, to 20 mile long runs that burn thousands. I added these calories to the base on those specific days.
Both ways of doing it require meticulous food tracking though and that's the other key to success.
I dropped 16st to 14st without any fancy diets or exercise methods just by using the second method above and basic regular cardio exercise.
I don't have the same weight issues you have, but up until the start of this year when I was still riding plenty I was trying to loose that little extra bit of weight.
I dieted, but ate pasta and the like assuming it would fuel me. I lost that little extra, but I felt weak.....and I was.
So just into 2016 I had to put riding on the back burner. I was conscious of keeping my weight down for this quiet period. But I went for the eat whatever you like full fat approach, but kept portions small. Quality not quantity.
So where I was struggling to loose a few pounds when I was racing, I've lost 3/4 stone and enjoyed my eating. Skipping rounds in the pubs helped as well.
So my riding is random, but when I do get out it's as if I've never been off the bike. No weight loss weakness.
I've never used any device to check my calories, or even read a packet. At the arse end of 56 I just want to feel and look good. In many ways if you're fit like us on here weight is just a number like your age. There is no way on Gods earth I'd let a crappy digital device dictate my life, and I must confess I don't know what HR zones are. Me and you ain't Wiggo and Froome we really don't need the trickle down technology.
My suggestions.
Ride....when you want.
Shag....as often as possible.
Dance....yes dance.
Eat...
As they say we ain't getting outta here alive.
OP has ridden 310miles in a day?!!?
**** me I did 200miles once but 300...thats like 20hrs solid.
Atkins diet will aid cycling performance (probably) and weight loss.
Quite a few friends swear by it. It sounds like you need to be very strict (i.e. no carbs) for a couple of weeks though (or at least; if you're gonna do it, do it properly and be very strict for a couple of weeks).
Steve Demchinsky • 3 years ago
I've been LCHF for the past two months and it has been life changing! Great reference is Volek & Phinney - Art and Science of Low Carb Living. Just this weekend rode the Crucifix with nothing more than butter in my coffee in the morning and a magnesium tablet in my water. 3400 calories and no 'bonking'. That was impossible for me to to before the diet change - one can only store around 2000 calories of glucose. It needs at least a few weeks of adaptation though.. and too many studies try LCHF for only a few days and say it doesn't work.
I haven't read the article (boring) just the comments. http://cyclingtips.com/2013/08/high-fat-low-carb-diets-good-for-you-and-your-cycling/
Plus there's calories and calories, as we should all know by now
Explain this to me. I don't get it.
Aside from any side effects to health, hypothetically:
If I ate say four snickers bars a day (1000 cals) for 3 months or the equivalent cals in potatoes/pulses/veg what would the difference be with regards to weight loss?
If the net result isn't the same, what's going on? Genuinely interested cos I'm sure I'm wrong but wanna know how.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw_T87IBJ5crZTE0YmU1OTMtOGM0Yy00MTk5LTk1OGUtMjY5NzY1NDk4YWNi
IDave diet basics
Explain this to me. I don't get it.
Aside from any side effects to health, hypothetically:
Sugar inhibits fat burning. See my quote above.
The OP hasn't responded for ages. He never answered the question about booze intake. To be honest I think he's lost interest
To be honest I think he's lost [s] interest[/s] the will to liveFTFY
Explain this to me. I don't get it.
Aside from any side effects to health, hypothetically:
Sugar inhibits fat burning. See my quote above.
But regardless of that, presumably you'd still lose weight? Otherwise you'd be staying in equilibrium on a very low 1000 cal per day diet.
Is that possible?
the thing is (and I'm not trying to be rude!) it's a really stupid question, the answer doesn't matter because no-one's going to live on chocolate bars (at least, no one who wants to go MTBing!)If I ate say four snickers bars a day (1000 cals) for 3 months or the equivalent cals in potatoes/pulses/veg what would the difference be with regards to weight loss?
No offence taken. The snickers is just an illustration.
The question I'm asking is if you lived on 1000 cals of any description over a prolonged period (3 months in this example) would you still lose weight?
People say calories aren't just calories and I'm trying to get my head round that.
In the short term i can see sugars can restrict weight loss by slowing fat burning, but in the long term it seems unlikely you'd remain the same weight if you had 1000 cals a day in ANY form.
The thing is, the body isn't a simple machine like an engine that just converts energy into work. What is happening inside you would be wildly different if you ate 2500 daily calories of healthy food, 2500 calories of junk food, or only 1000 calories of anything.
I agree, it's unlikely you wouldn't lose weight if you only ate 1000 calories a day for 3 months, but you aren't going to do that, are you? What state do you think you would be in if you did?