How to lose the gut and fitness advice required please

You obviously don't ride in West Yorkshire and the Dark Peak like I do. Small hills I can burn up if they are small but the long steep ones have me dying!

nope – live in the southern flatlands 😉

so you need some muscular endurance. try weights with high reps – to build some muscular endurance, lose the weight and you'll up your power weight ratio and be flying up the hills.

I have to confess to having developed a 'Winter Belly', due to crap weather and little motivation to go out on the bike. And eating/drinking too much. And getting older.

I've been told stomach crunches can help to define the abs better, but it's all round fat-burning that's needed really. Nothing else for it. Less in, more exercise. Simples.

Chocolate biccy, anyone?

I know what you are saying about the 11th, but that was a very unusual day which wouldn't normally happen. I am trying to aim to not feel hungry but eat really healthly but make sure I do exercise as well. If I exercise I will eat more to compensate so I'm not running on empty.

For instance yesterday I ate 1300 calories but only 18g of fat and 214 carbs. Daily recommended fat intake to lose 2lb a week is 32g and carbs is 136. So I'm eating more carbs to fuel the exercise but keeping the fat down.
I didn't feel hungry at all yesterday, was tempted quite a lot but changing my breakfast habits has helped a lot. Loads of fruit and cutting out the spuds and bread.

My brother (peterpoddy) can ride all day at a decent pace and never seem tired.

I'm not that fit. I'm also heavier than you right now, probably by a stone or more. But there's only one real reason I can keep going all day: I pushed myself above and beyond anything I though I could ever do on the Trans Wales. That's it.

Basically it taught me 2 things –
1) I learned what I need to eat and drink to keep me going without bonking or cramping (I start to cramp above 30 miles or so without proper fuel)
2) I trained for it, but nothing prepares you for 7 50-60 mile days in a row, in proper steep terrain, until you've done it for the first time. I got to a point on day 5 (My low point) when I doubted every single minute that I could carry on for one more minute, let alone more then a day. And now it's simply a fact that I know what I can stand, and I know what my pace is, so I can stick to it for a very, very long time.

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I've even started eating muesli for crying out loud!! 😉

I'd avoid all the 'guides' for carb intake and weight loss if you're riding a reasonable amount, you won't have sufficient stores and as above, your body will just go into starvation mode.

crunches will define your abs, but thats pointless if they remain buried under a layer of flab.

porridge for breakfast made with full fat milk some crushed nuts or seeds added does me through the winter. now its summer i will change back to museli but the fruit/sugar content makes my short commute easy/pointless

I was at the gym last night (and gave up out of boredom)- was thinking a good circuit training regime would help as I have a low attention-threshold
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From memory at school- the goodthing about Circuit training is you aim to do a better time on every subsequent session meaning you can build it up and have something to aim for/beat/measure yourself against.

Rob, will look one up and ping it over to you.

When you burn fat, it gets burned from all over. You can't lose fat in a specific area.

When you burn fat, it gets burned from all over. You can't lose fat in a specific area.

Phew

I have a massive scar from my Hip to above my belly button and about an inch wide 😀 from a burst appendix. It wasn't stiched up after removal, but left to heal from inside out and filled with wadding.
Often wondered if that ever had any effect on the way my stomach looks.

I have a massive scar

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