A friend sent the video below to me, hopefully as a bit of a joke, but I did watch it because the title (The real reason why older cyclists struggle with weight) intrigued me. I was expecting him to present me with the latest trendy reason, but he essentially spent the whole 7 minutes talking about calorie expenditure vs calorie intake, i.e. the reason we don’t lose weight is because we eat more than we burn.
I know that weight loss gets more difficult with age and that there may be other factors playing a hand in the background, but the fact that this guy has to make a video like this says a lot about a society that seems to be increasingly populated with people looking for excuses for their problems (if they think it’s a problem, of course) that possibly don’t really exist.
Now that I’ve had a moment to digest it, this video does seem simply a little click-baity, but I clicked, so you can too!
The Vicious Cycle 
This jives with my experience. I find that if I shove less food in my mouth, I tend to lose weight. As I get older, I need to shove even less food in my mouth to achieve the same result. This seems to be a disappointing reality that I am forced to deal with.
I guess we’ve both had many decades of shoving food into our mouths. We can always remember the good times.
I am with Steve. The secret of losing weight is eating less. I have just lost half a stone by this simple method but may find it hard to keep it off. Food is nice.
Food certainly is nice. And there’s so much of it.
We don’t eat out much and that helps. They tend to give you too much on the plate.
There is NO SECRET to losing weight. Eating less does not insure weight loss. Metabolism, genetics, age, gender all play a major part in how your body processes food. And also extremely important is one’s mental outlook. There’s a phenomena call ‘Starvation Mode’ where your body holds onto every calorie it can because you are not eating enough.
This is especially tricky if you’re a competitive cyclist…eat less, bonk and lose power, ..recovery suffers hence performance falls off.
Eat less…lose weight…a foolish oversimplification to a dilemma millions of people struggle with everyday.
Thirty years trying to achieve the body of a supermodel and what I’ve learnt is exactly this. If only it wasn’t so frikken hard to do.