I’m trying to lose some weight in a slow, sensible way. My plan is to preserve lean mass, while improving performance and/or losing some fat in the process. Currently I estimate to be around 15% of body fat. Coming from a “bodybuilding” sort of background, I’m counting calories on a daily basis and…

What do you mean by “eating at maintenance; no more on training days” Are you eting back the calories your burning on the bike or do the calories burned on the bike put you at a negative number of calories for the day?

So far, that is on the trainer, the calories burned on the bike put me at a negative number of calories for the day. As I start hitting the road, I will fuel pre, during, and post ride of course, but usually on road days I’m not so strict on calorie counting (since I can’t be 100% sure of how much …

Hi, it sounds ok. In my opinion you could reduce the protein to around 1,6g/KG Bodyweight. But that’s my personal view. Maybe you could get some benefits from this topic and share some of your results later. Best regards. [image] Your personal best way to lose some fat - anecdot…

You will almost certainly do fine on the weight loss side of things by continuing along your current plan. Eventually you may find that your performance on the bike is compromised if you are only taking in a ‘maintenance’ amount of calories on training days. I would suggest that a potentially bett…

I’ll definitely fuel rides, before, during and after. I think eventually what matters is the weekly caloric balance, rather than the daily one.

I’d second @willball12 and say your training days may be too restrictive in the long term if you want to gain/maintain watts while losing kg’s. Unless you’re doing a LV plan, that would seem more doable. Ultimately if it’s working for you and you’re getting the results you want stick to it, just be…

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mmac March 8, 2019, 8:44am 3

Check out this podcast Special Guest: Amber Pierce – Ask a Cycling Coach 193 There’s a very helpful discussion on here about nutrition and the Q&A that @ambermalika did online (scroll down on the link above) provides some really interesting thinking on bike nutrition, particularly on fuelling your ride and post ride nutrition.

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