This is my first my post here. I would like to give a little background on my cycling history for some context. I have only recently taken up cycling, buying my first proper road bike in August last year. I have fallen completely in love with road cycling and, until recently, feel like it has compl…

Welcome Consider a thread like this that has a huge amount of useful information for you. [image] Weight loss accountability buddy or thread discussion Nutrition Does anyone think this would work for them? Or perhaps an accountability thread as a whole. Personally I have…

Hi There is much to be said about weight loss and being able to go up hills faster. There is a balance that loosing weight can interfere with power gains. Many years ago i did something similar, trained , restricted my diet. Eventually my body started burning my muscle tissue. I did not get any fa…

@Kryotic - I have a very similar weight trajectory as you. At 138, I’m miserable and power suffers; at 140-141, it is a whole different world of mental stability and cycling ability. I won’t bore you with a pile of details except to say this very simple thing: You didn’t start to go faster u…

I think 5ft 8 and 67 kg is a respectable weight for a healthy person. As you have identified, going lower has not done you any good. Clearly there are some anomalies around this, but if I was at that weight, I wouldn’t be chasing weight loss as the priority. You haven’t indicated your age, which is…

Welcome to the forum! I’m so sorry to hear that your new love of cycling has lead to an issue with weight. I’m sure your not alone! I can only agree with what others have said above - I believe that your performance, happiness and even potentially w/kg gains will come from increasing the Watts sid…

Forget your weight now, you’re already a very light rider compared to most. You’re dodging the hard stuff - getting your power up. Shoot for 260w FTP and you can be a 4.0w/g rider, with a bodyweight floating around 64 to 66kg. You’ll not just be quick on the climbs but also semi-decent on the fla…

Thank you for sharing this. Despite getting better on the climbs, I have noticed a drop in my ‘punching power’ been dropped a lot more flats recently. I don’t know if I’ll ever have a ‘balanced’ relationship with food. I enjoy it and derive too much emotional comfort from it. I tend to either overea…

Building power definitely sounds a lot more fun than going to bed hungry…

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I am fuelling but I find the meals I eat in and around the cycling to be too small and restricted and that’s what leads to me eventually saying “f*ck it” and going nuts once I finally break. Then I proceed to eat everything that I wouldn’t normally touch …

I am 28. I’m about to start the build phase (mid-volume) and I know that I will not be able to lose weight once it starts… I am frustrated because I set 60kg as the golden number to reach and have fallen short. That said, I am just a ‘hobby cyclist’ like you mentioned… I probably need to re-evaluate…

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