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@Bainbridge
Ok bit of background about me. Always been a bit overweight as a youngster, when I went to uni it all got a bit out of control due to boozing and bad diet. Ended up in 2006 being 18st 5lb (I'm 6 ft).
Today I weighed myself and I'm 13st 9lbs, lightest I've been since I was 14 (I think). I've lost it all by cycling and more recently a better diet.
I've got myself some of the fancy pants scales, apparently my fat percentage is 14.3. This seems quite low according to the websites I've seen (athletes are usually 10% and under) but I've still got a fair bit of belly.
My main problem is psychological - I still few myself as 'fat'. I spent my whole life embarrassed about the fact I was overweight and now I'm not I still feel like a fat person.
I now have a choice - stay like I am or try and lose the remaining belly still there, in the hope that that will cure me of feeling like I'm still fat. I think it would be harder to lose the remaining weight as I don't think I would want to do more miles (already doing between 150-200 a week) so it would be purely dietary. Which might mean giving up beer.......is anything worth giving up beer for?