January/February weight management challenge

[Crankin]

I wasn't complaining over .5 lb. gained over the course of a "normal" day. It's more like, OK, I changed my eating a bit, lost 3.5 lbs in as many days. Then, the next day, when I was just really hungry, I had one -two different, but not necessarily bad things and my weight went up. Why, when on one of those other days I had 2 glasses of sangria, which is, as far as I know, not on anyones list of good dietary habits!
Yes, my weight always goes up 2 lbs. over the course of a day, unless I am in a phase like I am now, (or I am running, which keeps my weight stable much more than cycling) or I do a hard, but not too long ride. As with others, very long, hard rides make me gain weight, but it's temporary. In fact, over the course of a day, I can almost feel if it is a day when I am losing or my weight will be down the next day.
I don't count calories. If I ate 1200 calories a day, I am not sure if I'd survive. I've seen formulas that say I should eat something like 1100 calories a day to maintain my weight . Realistically, I think I eat about 2,000- 2500, with exercise, of course, and now I might be eating 16- 1800.

[Catrin]

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Yes, my weight always goes up 2 lbs. over the course of a day, unless I am in a phase like I am now, (or I am running, which keeps my weight stable much more than cycling) or I do a hard, but not too long ride. As with others, very long, hard rides make me gain weight, but it's temporary. In fact, over the course of a day, I can almost feel if it is a day when I am losing or my weight will be down the next day.
I don't count calories. If I ate 1200 calories a day, I am not sure if I'd survive. I've seen formulas that say I should eat something like 1100 calories a day to maintain my weight . Realistically, I think I eat about 2,000- 2500, with exercise, of course, and now I might be eating 16- 1800.

My calorie "budget" on non-intense exercise days is around 1,350. That actually doesn't change on exercise days, but I estimate the calories burned (I figure about 80% of what my HRM tells me I burned) and try to keep my net intake between 1,000-1,400 calories.

I think one of the things that is going on for me right now is there is little variety in my diet. What I eat is solid, but I need more veggies of all kinds...so I need to figure out how to do that. I am starting to get ideas from the "what did you eat today" thread.

If I didn't count calories or measure...well...that would be bad. My body rarely tells me when it is hungry, and it takes awhile for it to tell me when I've had enough. It's like that connection is missing from too many years of eating too much of awful food. During the summer when I've long ride days that is a different story.

[goldfinch]

I don't count calories. If I ate 1200 calories a day, I am not sure if I'd survive. I've seen formulas that say I should eat something like 1100 calories a day to maintain my weight . Realistically, I think I eat about 2,000- 2500, with exercise, of course, and now I might be eating 16- 1800.

My resting metabolic rate, the calories needed just to run my body at rest, is roughly 975 to 1000 calories. I currently eat between 1450 and 1500 with exercise, on a weekly average. I will have higher days when I have significant exercise or I just blow it. Last week when I rode 57 miles I had about 1900 calories that day. But my weekly average still stayed close to 1500. Last week it averaged 1534.

When I was heavy my resting metabolic rate was roughly 225 calories more than it is now. That is because I had more body to support. I think that I always want that additional 225.

As far as variability, the "hacker's diet" has a good discussion of the fluctuations people have that basically are meaningless: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/signalnoise.html

[goldfinch]

Hey, this is the thread where we post our weights!

Friday January 13: 108.4

[SAMbike]

Morning everyone!

1/13: 115.0

but I'm wondering when those cookies and other junk food that I scarfed down earlier this week at a 2-day conference will kick-in... it's certainly not an immediate thing, the weight gain that is, so if I go overboard it might not actually show up in a consistent weight gain for a few days