Weight / Fat loss

^ imaginary #rep @itsbruce

Put on 4kg while touring. Apparently I can't get away with five meals a day and beer every night even if I'm riding more than usual (though it was LOADS of fun eating everything all the time). Anyway, diet time. Snore.

Stress of moving to microcosm?

Just noticed this, and no... just the date for the wedding focusing the mind.

I quite like being back below 22 BMI, might stop at 21.

79.4kg according to the Scales of Truth. This is too many kg.

Am 90kg but should be under 76kg (and probably closer to 70kg if I want to make running easier).

A few weeks until MiniGB starts school and I'll have Friday to myself to get fit (and my weight tends to go down as a consequence). Have a week at the in-laws before that though. Uh oh.

Weight loss has become piece of piss since giving up alcohol .. 67.8kg now

Touring diet of haribo and caffeine has lost me 4 kilos. Now 61kg.

@Dammit

79.4kg according to the Scales of Truth. This is too many kg.

That's nearly 80kg.

Which you might as well round up to 100kg.

Really? You looked a lot leaner than that on the SDW ride
When did you last calibrate your scales?

I was probably arond 77 then.

And what's wrong with that? cough 105 cough

+4kg in a week off the bike. Suck my nuts, world.

78.5 this morning, clearly being in England makes me thinner.

30km in the alps at 5% my best ever VAM. Does this mean I am fat?

http://theradavist.com/2014/08/thoughts-cycling-weight-loss/

My weight has dropped to 66kg after moving to a more paleo inspired diet.
I was worried when I got on the scales as im trying to build leg power but my body fat had also halved to 8.5% well below targets.

Low carb / higher fat diet easy to stick too, reduced hunger and no binge cycles I find are triggered when i'm eating refined carbs.

Clearly I need to rebalance my calorie intake at some point but might try for 6% body fat just to see how it feels.

Worried about eating increased levels of saturated fats, will probably check cholesterol levels next month, but think it involves a blood test and I don't do needles.

At your height, isn't 66kg pretty skinny already?

69.3kg this morning. Lowest I've been for ages. Must have been the crumbled up Maryland cookies and clotted cream ice cream I had last last night that did it.

I'm interested in paleo as a concept but love dairy, and, how TF do you do a lot of riding on minimal starchy carbs? Do veg cut it for providing endurance sport fuel?

Hey Jim

This was the big question I had..
How to ride at tempo for 4hrs+ without carbs?

Before paleo my fueling technique was a fairly standard 40g of refined carbs every 30 to 45 minutes.
Gels, flapjacks, chocolate.. whatever.

The answer I was given from the world age group triathlete champion surprised me.
Nothing.

You eat nothing.
At the time I dismissed it as likely suicide
The theory is however a body without the complication of digesting carbs can better naturally convert fat reserves for energy.

When I tried I found I still need to eat somthing, but I can easily manage 4hours with a just 50g of lowcarb coconut spread out over the whole ride.

Carry an emergency gel incase I feel a bonk coming on.

'Paleo' is fucking stupid.
As are all these other stupid little fucking fad diets.
You want to lose weight?
Eat less, do more exercise.
You can switch to a slightly higher protein diet, but as proved time and again-even on this thread-low carb diets are great whilst you're on them but the long term- they just don't work.

The science between Paleo is, yes, really fucking stupid. The diet itself is better than the standard "diet" but so is almost anything. And I hate intellectual dishonesty.

no.. just no.

Human biology is not a simple machine.
Calories in vs calories out does not = health.
Lets not even mention the psychological areas for now.

Its this kind of gross over simplification, that has lead to a world of chronic obesity.
We are continually now discovering how complex, which is why new findings lead to conflicting advice.

Paleo is not scientific.. and does not try to be.
It simply points out that humans only began an diet based on agriculture 12,000 years ago which is not long enough for any real evolutionary adaptation.

The previous 90% of human history was a diet based hunter / gathering, meat, nuts, fruits but no refined carbs.

It is the diet our bodies are designed by evolution to eat.
Probably more likely to benefit your fitness and survival.
True not an empirical argument but a logical/rational solution when the evidence is incomplete.

Asumming you believe in the power of evolution.

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Tommy, there isn't a single sentence of your post which makes any kind of sense.