Quote Originally Posted by ACG View Post
...the ladies there would say I had to stop eating energy bars (while riding) that this was causing my weight gain. I wonder did they look at the tortilla and cheese I ate the day I wasn't riding? I tried to explain to them I was riding 100 miles in one day and couldn't survive on apples alone, and the rest stops don't have green salads available! I got dumbfounded looks. Anyway, the bike riding didn't seem to factor in to the WW plan. And I was always hungry on ride days.

So how do you eat the right foods when riding and still be on WW. Do I just turn a deaf ear and come up with my own strategy for ride days? Trying to loose weight alone isn't working, I need to be kept accountable. And WW is the right price. Help.
First, don't listen to the people at WW who don't have a clue how much energy it takes to ride a bike for hours.

You're earning activity points while you're riding, so you should eat them. Whether that's a luna bar or a banana or a bagel with peanut butter doesn't really matter, as long as it's something that's providing nutrition and energy.

My guess is that it's not the food you're eating while riding that's slowing the weight loss, but everything else. As long as you track everything, and you eat within your weekly points and activity points, you should lose, although some people have better luck when they don't eat all of their weeklies.

Just know that losing weight is a really slow process as we get older. I'm 52, and my weight loss on WW has been incredibly slow--40 pounds in 15 months. Patience...