Is weightloss possible from riding alone?

[mudmucker]

I thought the weight would fall off when I started cycling (it's the most regular exercise I've done in years, and surely the most intense). But my weight hasn't budged and it's frustrated the heck out of me. I took off 50 pounds two years ago and put back 10 over the last year. I've been struggling to get that 10 back off and gotten no where. I try to focus my eating around low glycemic index foods.I

I've wondered if, when it is difficult for some women to drop weight is it because they've just started an activity after many years of inactivity as opposed to years of having exercise or some form of athletic activity during every season as a lifestyle. Or is it simply "people have different metabolisms".

Just the same, you did drop 40.

[deedolce]

Winter is such a struggle for me! I, too, have my Winter fat storage on my belly - about 5 pounds. I'm hitting the big 5-0 next week, and found from this past year that 150 miles a week was the point where I could eat those treats once in a while, and not have it show, multiplied, on my body! 125 miles a week wouldn't do it, it had to be around 150. And I still can't eat just anything I want (darn it all) I always have to be conscious of what I eat to not be a little dumpling!

I'm sure that number will have to go up as my body continues to change, and my body gets used to the effort.

[DebTX]

I've wondered if, when it is difficult for some women to drop weight is it because they've just started an activity after many years of inactivity as opposed to years of having exercise or some form of athletic activity during every season as a lifestyle..

I think you're on to something. I definitely think those of us who've led sedentary lives have a very different metabolism than folks who've always been active.

Same thing with training - I think my body is far slower to adapt, than say my husband, who's been athletic all his life. We both learned to ride at the same time, but he's now a relative speed demon while I still gasp for air at the top of hills.

[malkin]

I saw this thread days ago, but now when I see the title I keep reading it as:

Is weightlessness possible...?

Is it my vision that's deteriorating or my mind?