Confused - Please Help

hobbit says foorking muscle gain weight you tw@

Water, glycogen stores, controls of measuring times and other factors...

Try to get a quality scale and measure using same controls e.g. first thing in the morning at the same time and temp etc.

Don't forget water and glycogen will add body weight and when this is lost on a tough ride you will see a few kgs missing!

I've dropped 15kg by diet adjusting but my metabolism has adapted and when studies finish I can start to ride more and shift another 15kg in 3-4 months.

Don't let your body adapt.

Also training hard and trying to lose weight will release chemical signalling that confuses the body-do I grow or lose weight. The body can't do both very well.

My goal is to get into race weight this year, next year endurance and then add some speed work.

Stop reading old facts and start reading up Sport science journals and apply your knowledge! (Sorry I'm a science geek)

Id say dont get obsessed by tiny differences in weight. Id recommend only using daily weight changes as a guide to hydration.

Measure your weight weekly or less frequently for true weight loss. Or an even better attitude would be not to weigh your self and enjoy cycling for cyclings sake and gradually you'll notice the weight loss and your fitness increasing.

On the advice about 'fat burning intensity' thats not entirely correct. If you excercise steadily then its true you burn a higher proportion of fat but not a high total ammount. At higher intensity the proportion of fat is less but the total ammount is greater (and you also burn more carbs as well).

James

Just continue to drink lots of water per day. I read somewhere that if you are losing a lot of body fat you should make sure your pee is clear.

We're all different Gaz, maybe it's normal for you

i always weigh myself on monday evening before tea, i find that doing it the same time every week makes it much less liable to jump about. i can easily lose/gain 4lbs over the course of a week and be the same weight come monday

I have read that 3,500 calories approx. equates to 1lb in weight, so if you are burning calories and reducing your intake then you will lose weight.

Muscle weight doesn't magically appear without the calorie intake, so basically you are either not burning the calories or you are eating more.

I agree with Tony in that you may have weighed yourself the 1st week and your body was dehydrated. 1 litre of water = 2.2lbs (I think)

I'm sure you're still burning fat, but you are also probably building muscles - so sometimes the scales can lie + I usually find that there is a lag between doing the exercise and seeing the fat disappear except when you also dehydrate - which isn't a good idea. Could be that some of last weeks big loss was down to dehydration.

4 lbs is an awful lot to loose in a week. Were you starving yourself?

If you keep putting in the miles and eating sensibly - don't eat too much at once, have something more if you're still feel starving an hour later - then the weight will come off. But you need to think long term. Keep it up for a year and you'll need a new wardrobe.

And you don't have to be riding hard. Riding at a steady pace, well within your aerobic threshold, burns fat.

Don't worry. There's a reason why professional cyclists have the lowest percentage body fat of any athletes.