Polar watch indicates that I have trained, since January 1, 200 hours and burned 119,000+ calories.
Yet, I’ve only lost 4 or 5 pounds…
Granted Polar estimation may not be total accurate but you can’t argue 200 hours, mostly aerobic exercise.
Stop eating the gallons of Edy’s ice cream, m&m’s, and all the other shit and I just may look like an elite athlete some day… Some day, but for now… Hand me that ice cream scoop.
Dude, I’m with ya.
I’ve burned 28,000 calories on the bike in just the last 2 months…
not to mention Running and Swim cal.
only 1 day off a week!
only lost maybe a pound from my 190.
I really don’t eat that much, maybe 2500-2700 cal / day.
… what the hell gives? do I need to start hitting the weights again too?
join the gang. take some solace in what a Cat1/2 rider said to me on Sat during a pre race ride when we were talking about an up coming hilly race. The guy is about 185 lbs and 6.2 - " at out level its not about weight its about mental strenght"
He went on to point out that someone like Roland Green (ex USPS and also 2 x World MTB Champ) who is also a big guy can come out and kick everyones butt at any local road race at any given weekend.
Depends on what your goals are. My guess is that you are either underestimating your caloric intake or you just don’t have that much to lose. If you want to lose 10lbs, you need to do something different. Weight training, depending on how you do it, might actually increase your weight (muscle being heavier than fat).
My observation for my 47 yr old metabolism is that I have to eat under 2000 cal per day to lose and 2000-2500 to maintain, all the while working out hard. Working out hard for me being defined as 1 - 1.5 hrs per day, 5-6 days per week.
Gah. I need to lose 14lbs by July. Good luck to me.
I eat way too much sweets.
I just get too damn hungry during the day from training.
Maybe I should go back to eating more fruits when I’m hungry.
i just answered with ‘may be your polar overestimates caloric expenditure’ in another thread … that seems to be the case. although 200 hours times, say, 500 kcal per hour = 100,000kcal, which is certainly in the ballpark.
consider this:
119,000 kca you ‘burnt’ vs. 3,500 kcal in apound of fat
119/3.5 = 34 lbs - 5 lbs (actually lost) = 29 lbs unaccounted for.
even if you did gain a few lbs of muscle mass, that’s still a boatload of a difference. Either your polar is off, or you eat REALLY wrong. I guess a regular gallon of Edy’s could do it… stop that. may want to have your cholesterol, triglycerides, and some inflammatory markers checked…
I’m the same way. I can’t lose weight easily. Are you drinking any alcohol? If so, that is one big factor for me. I have to completely cut out alcohol, not even have a few drinks one night a week, for me to lose weight but once I lose it, I rebound easily. It’s a PITA because I want to get down to 165 (5’11" currently at 182).
I got about the same to lose but before end of August, it’s a difficult tightrope to balance. The amount of fuel needed to fuel your training and yet still lose, that is my main difficulty.
It’s easy to compute the calories but difficult to decide how much I should allocate for ice cream.
I have the weight to lose, know I should lose it, read book after book on nutrition. Hell, I even have a culinary degree, so I really don’t have any excuses other then I’m weak when it comes to junk food. It’s not that I don’t think about everything that I put into my body. The problem is that I justify all of it… I started triathlons three years ago when I was fed up with dieting. I said to myself, I have to find a sport which will motivate me to exercise and allow me to eat whatever I want. Three years later I have dropped 20# and now hover around 185 give or take 5 pounds. Part of me say’s I’d like to race at 165-170, but the other part of me says “What for?”
IM is in October, so I’m just heading into my big weaks of training. We’ll see where I’m at in October…
Seems pretty clear to me that for most people the body gets to some equilibrium state that, after which, it gets really hard to lose weight given the amount of exercise we all get and a basic diet. I’m currently at 175 and 5’11" (50 years old) and I regulary have daily 500 - 1,000 calorie deficits on a 2,500 - 3,000 calorie/day diet and my weight hasn’t appreciably changed in about a year. Seems I’ve found my equilibrium and I’m OK with it.
No food or alcohol after 6 pm…you will lose the weight…
I keep reading this, can someone explain? The way I see it the weight loss game is a numbers game and that is it. If you eat less than you burn you lose weight. I don’t understand how not eating after some arbitrary time makes that happen?
I agree with what someone said above, the trick is to hold back enough to drop weight without droping so much you run yourself in the ground.
If you are nearer 1000 cal deficit per day, you’re lask of success is more likely to be because you are so far from your caloric requirement that your body is storing the fat and eating lean musccle mass. This is because it sees this as a warning of imminent famine.
Stick to the 500 cals deficit and you will be successful.