Cycling and Weight Loss

Cycling is an excellent way to help lose weight. The great thing is that you can lose weight without counting calories and restricting your food intake. However, your weight loss will be more effective if you also turn to eating a more healthy diet. It is not necessary to eat less, but, it is important to eat more.

I really recommend cycling in the outside, in the beautiful country. I know you may have the odd irritating motorist, but, it is much more fun than cycling like a hamster on one of those gym exercise bikes. If you cycle indoors, cycling will feel like hard work and boring. The important thing is to make cycling fun, so you really want to do it.

Tips for Losing Weight and Cycling

• Don’t skip meals to lose weight. It is better to eat frequently and in moderation.
• Keep Riding. Cycling is one of the best ways to burn calories.
• Eat More Raw food. Raw food is an excellent way of getting nutritional value and avoiding processed fatty foods, which are the easiest to gain weight. If you develop a taste for  raw and healthy food, you will find it more instinctive to eat a healthy diet.
• Get out of the habit of eating poor quality foods with high saturated fat content.
• Take time to go shopping and buy attractive healthy food.
• Take it slow but steady. Weight loss is not about the fastest way to shed pounds, but, about permanentely changing eating / exercise habits to gain a lower long term weight.
• Give yourself goals for both losing weight and cycling specific goals e.g. doing a local hill climb at the end of the season.
• When you are training hard, don’t starve the body of the carbohydrates it needs to replenish lost energy.
• Know which supplements to take. Most diet pills are a waste of time. But, some can be of some help. See practical weight loss for independent reviews of the diet pill market.
• Register for an October Hill Climb in January. The thought of racing up a steep hill, will be a great motivator to lose unnecessary pounds.
• One of the great things about cycling is that it can be a fun way to lose weight. It doesn’t require an ascetic self-denial. Also, the more you cycle the more you will appreciate the benefits of keeping a healthy weight. Just try cycling with pannier with 2-3Kg and notice the difference going up a hill.

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