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Answer: lose weight. You can shave ounces from the weight of your bike with tweaks and upgrades here and there, but you can shave POUNDS from your body. Okay, not everyone has this luxury, but I bet most of us can spare at least a couple of pounds.
On the first of this month I started eating ‘slow carbs.’ Coach Levi turned me on to the idea, though he’s trying to get bigger and I’m trying to get smaller. The eating is pretty easy. I eat as much as I want from a pretty limited selection of food for six days a week (seventh day is a free-for-all). Fortunately it’s all food I love. Lotsa beans though. Kinda tough on the coworkers, but it’s not about them, is it?
I’d love to drop 20lbs, but we’ll just see how I do. Last Tuesday morning I weighed in at 233 pounds (hey, I’m 6′4″, gimme a break), though I’d seen as high as 240 over the previous couple of weeks. My “anything goes” day was yesterday and in that morning I came in at 229. Gobbled tons of “bad” food on Saturday and bumped up a pound this morning. Back on the regimen this week until next Saturday. I’ll post results here, probably once a week.
In the past I’ve dropped weight basically by burning more calories, but eating the same. This time I’m switching that around. I’m doing the same amount of exercise but eating differently. I’m not sure I’m eating fewer calories, actually. I’m not even sure I’m eating less volume, either. Just different food. Seems to be working, but the end of the month holds the real answer.
How have you successfully dropped a few pounds?
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5 comments for this entry ↓
1 Franky // Apr 7, 2008 at 3:56 am
I usually gain a couple pounds over the winter, but thanks to a fast metabolism I shed them rather quickly when I start to bike commute again in spring. No special diet here…
2 Levi // Apr 7, 2008 at 4:23 am
Hope it works out for you, Tim Ferriss’ stuff has been great to me! I have basically lost a few pounds of fat and replaced it with a few pounds of muscle, so I’m happy
3 UltraRob // Apr 7, 2008 at 5:59 am
I gained a huge amount of weight after RAAM. I went from riding 20-30 hours a week to riding 2-3 hours. It was hard to cut back enough on food. I’m 40 pounds above my competitive weight. I’ve lost weight in the past by keeping track of my calories and riding a lot. I haven’t had the time lately.
4 KiltedSurfer // Apr 7, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Good luck Bren. I hope it works, we are about the same size and I would love to lighten up for biking and surfing.
It would be helpful to know your age though…
5 Ben Grad // Apr 8, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Seems like a tricky balance between speed gained by loosing weight, and speed gained by increasing muscle (gaining weight)
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