Originally Posted by
PeteHski
That is just nuts! Having listened to the guys on Trainer Road for the last year or so I'm sold on a sensible fuel-to-ride strategy alongside a core healthy diet. I'm a full-on eating machine during endurance events and find it very effective. But I don't need to lose any significant weight, so it's only a matter of maintenance. I might aim to drop 5 kg for a big mountain event, but that would simply involve slightly smaller portions within my core diet over several months. I hardly even notice it.
Yea, that's definitely a better way. You have to understand that I did know I was pushing things because of a unique situation. In 2 years at age 50-52 I had gone from 360lbs to 170lbs. I have done remarkably well with lose skin issues and had been intermittent fasting on a 20 off-4 on eating cycle for a good year. I rode a bike 360 days that second year and had many rides of 20-30 miles during that 20 hour fasting period. I just got in a hurry to see a 6 pack and pushed it too much at over 36 hours.