What are you eating?

mickmcl09

What makes up your typical day in terms of what you eat?
I've went from 13st to 11st 9 in the last 18 months, but by just looking at some of the racers, I figure it needs to be closer to 11st or less. Obviously getting to 11st is going to take more than just going out to train.

How are you remaining disciplined when it comes to getting a hunger pang late in the evening? (and the wife has the house stocked with goodies).

ednwireland

wine brought back from france

thebouldwhacker

I've lost over 3 stone in the last year.... No secret, just using my head when shopping and exercise, evening snacks? cereal for me. Now just to get over the winter....

Captain Havoc

I eat breakfast at 9h30 (bowl of Müesli), lunch at 12h30 small and usually pasta, I spend the evening snacking then on biscuits or brown bread with tea. I also drink about 40 million cups of coffee while at work. I've managed to keep my weight down (66kg) since I got sick of boozing (I still make a rare appearance down the pub now and again). I eat pizza every Saturday while watching the football but I wouldn't if I could race or do sportives on a Sunday.

tawfeeredux

My weight is currently the lowest it's been in a few years (c.65kg). Not sure if that's down to diet or just increased mileage & intensity on the bike.

My diet is fairly good I think. Breakfast, which I never, ever skip, is bowl of porridge with full fat milk, a banana, a few spoonfuls of natural, pro-biotic yoghurt. A cod-liver oil capsule/multi-vit washed down with a glass of water before I leave the house.

I'd go through about 1.5 litres of water at work, just sipping while I'm at the desk. An apple at 11:00, lunch around half 1 of tuna/salmon/scrambled egg on brown bread. Another apple at 4. There's often chocolate/sweets/crisps going round the office & I wouldn't hold back in tucking in.

Dinner then around 6:30/7:00. This is where I've made some changes in the last year. Got sick of eating pasta/stir-fry sauces out of jars, so picked up Jamie Oliver's Ministry of Food book on the recommendation of a friend & have started cooking from scratch with ingredients. Still eating mostly pasta/rice/curry dishes, & it's not necessarily low-fat, but it's definitely less processed than the stuff I was eating before as well as tastier cos i made it myself!

I might have a non-caffeine tea after dinner, & often would have something sweet too. Though I found when I did a few races late in the season that I was more conscious of eliminating junk from my diet altogether.

Might have a pizza/take-away once a month or so. Rarely drink & even then I don't have the capacity to drink a lot.

On the bike then it's usually a banana, maybe a Clif bar, and some Nuun or High-5 in the water bottle.

adrianshanahan

Being lower in weight does not make more healthy or a better cyclist.... Not saying being a fatty is a good thing but I'm over 100kg and I have savaged "actual cyclist" on the climbs or when they go mountain biking.

Its all about power or power to weight not how much you can get the weight down.

mfdc

adrianshanahan wrote: »

Being lower in weight does not make more healthy or a better cyclist.... Not saying being a fatty is a good thing but I'm over 100kg and I have savaged "actual cyclist" on the climbs or when they go mountain biking.

Its all about power or power to weight not how much you can get the weight down.

Agree with this, the fastest man in the world on the flat is just under 13 stone, and I reckon he'd horse it up any climb in Ireland as fast as a mountain goat (see: 2010 Tour of Flanders). Weight only seems to be a problem on longer climbs like you get in the Alps, there's nothing serious here more than ~5km.

Lumen

mfdc wrote: »

Agree with this, the fastest man in the world on the flat is just under 13 stone

According to that he weighs as much as an Audi Q7 and he drinks Indurain. :pac:

levitronix

Rhino horn !

feck sake lads

it's (now be truthful) as the Italians say looking good in the saddle
i have been trying to loose weight this past couple year's the lightest i've been was 11 stone and that was 3 years ago i'm now just over12 but still going well on the bike though to be truthful i have slowed down but doing longer miles.
i don't look in shop windows any more and if possible i stay away from getting my photo taken on the bike not a pretty sight:D:D
but feck it all i still love my cycling looking good is a thing of the past ,so eat well and be happy.;)

ashleey

Interesting point. Can someone set up a poll to see who looks at their own reflection in shop windows when cycling? Honesty only.

neris

Normally have bacon & eggs for brekkie lunch can be leftovers or sandwhich an dinner usually meat on its own. loads of coffee aswell. If cycling usually have porridge before i head out and energy or ceral bars and a juice mix with glucose powder. Have cut down a lot on beer but drink alot more wine then I use too. Since i started cycling ive lost body fat but increased muscle. clothes are looser or too big but the scales hasnt decreased a whole lot. I wanted to loose weight and see the scales go down but happy enough with how I am now.

72hundred

Now... Lunch

ROK ON

Yestreday
A bowl of bouillibaise, and some chicken salad for brunch.
Dinner was 2 glasses of port, then I made honey roast pork on a bed of fennell and parsnip, served with buttery mash potato and red cabbage in port and cinamon. Washed down by some ice cream and choc brownies.

Today a banana, apple, toast OJ, coffee.
Then some nice ribs and a salad for dinner in a local hotel.

Weight needless to say has been creeping up in the past two weeks (however some of that may have been down to a week in London - top place for great foor at great prices - simply cant beat the full English in a traditional greasy spoon cafe).

Planet X

BTH

ashleey wrote: »

Interesting point. Can someone set up a poll to see who looks at their own reflection in shop windows when cycling? Honesty only.

If you can look at yourself in shop windows then you're not pushing hard enough.

IM0

ashleey wrote: »

Interesting point. Can someone set up a poll to see who looks at their own reflection in shop windows when cycling? Honesty only.

so what you're really asking is, are you a poser or not.

BOT: breakfast of wholewheat bread toasted [about 3-400 Kcal worth]
or large bowl of cereal muslei style in the warmer months

sandwhich/s for lunch, ham or chicken and cheese and tomato and mayo, and cuoscus salads during summer
some elevenses bars during the day as snacks to keep me going untill dinner,
pasta w peppers tomatoes and steak some days, bolognaise others, in winter I switch to more casserole type food and changeover to potatoes for the most part. Less carb loading needed as intensity is much lower

and all the crap of biscuits and cake that I feel like eating after Ive had all the nutritious food of the day

manwithaplan

I have gone from about 13 st at the start of the summer to 11 st now. Both weights are from my unreliable bathroom scales - I think a few pounds could be added to both. I am about 5' 11'' and most of the weight loss was in the first six weeks or so. I have been pretty stable for the last couple of months. I don't really want to lose any more weight.

My weekend diet is pretty chaotic and usually involves one night of porter (maybe 4-5 pints). During the week, I eat a smallish bowl of porridge with full fat milk and a slice of brown toast with flora and jam for breakfast. I usually have a bagel/sandwich with tuna or bacon or something at lunchtime with coffee. Proper meal in the evening - roast chicken with spuds and veg or pasta or stir fry. Don't snack much during the week - maybe a square or two of dark chocolate or a couple of jaffa cakes.

I go for one spin of 80-100k each weekend as well as my shortish commute. My turbo stares at me accusingly during the week.

petethedrummer

http://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/tour-features/14-ways-eat-cyclist-tour-de-france

mloc123

petethedrummer wrote: »

http://www.bicycling.com/tour-de-france/tour-features/14-ways-eat-cyclist-tour-de-france

They forgot to include steak