The body burns something like 2500 to 3000 calories during a 26 mile marathon run.

Diet trumps exercise….

[T]he real challenge is when your training requires additional calories. If you are trying to build lean muscle mass climbing, you don't just need to cut 150 calories from your diet; you need to increase the amount of lean protein that you consume.

Body movement is very efficient, because of this it takes allot to burn off ones stored reserves. A good diet will get you there faster than exercise alone . Recognizing the right windows of when and when not to eat, eating smaller portions more times a day instead of large meals few times a day, and loosing 150c a day by taking a smaller portion or loosing all together that bag of chips, candy bar , or can of soda, you will get the desired results .

I also cycle, avg. 200 miles a week. I am entered in a century for charity next Sunday where I will do my best to use as much mechanical advantage to keep the rpm at a constant and conserve as much energy as possible.

Cycling is to help keep me in good cardio shape. Proper diet relative to activity, environment, and individuals' goals, keeps your weight where you want it.

Diet still trumps exercise.

Fuck that after I climb I eat like a Mating HIPPO.

The activity is a constant.
The calorie intake is …lets say 10,000 a week to maintain 150lbs.
Do you believe that you need to take in more calories to loose weight?

So then, what is your problem?

Im sure you have no idea about a great many things there Jay.

Im sure you have no idea about a great many things there Jay.

In spite of the fact that you've been incoherently babbling and contradicting yourself throughout this thread, I have not stooped to insulting you. Too bad you can't do the same.

Jay

This is true.
Fact Jay is being nice.
Is he on drugs?

You just did it again! You're burning 4–5 thousand calories per week cycling and saying that that is trumped by 1,050 calories per week from a daily dietary caloric deficit of 150 calories. WTF!

Jay

I find it's much easier to not eat junkfood than it is to try to burn the calories later. I've always been naturally fit but time is catching up with me, so I ditched all fried foods, eat baked chips instead of regular chips, and drink no more than 12oz of pop per day. I lost 8 lbs and am back under 10%, without adding any exercise.

Moral of the story? You don't have to burn off excess calories if you don't consume them in the first place.

Good boy Jay…im proud of you. One thread makes up for years of insulting people. Well… Almost , you insulted someone on the first page. Sometimes you should just keep your big mouth shut.

You did not understand my post.

There are a great many things you do not understand….

FUCK THAT SHIT

I don’t understand what you are saying…?.what i am getting at in short... You need to burn off more than you take in to loose weight. If you take in more than you need the body stores it.

Body movement is very efficient, because of this it takes allot to burn off ones stored reserves. A good diet will get you there faster than exercise alone . Recognizing the right windows of when and when not to eat, eating smaller portions more times a day instead of large meals few times a day, and loosing 150c a day by taking a smaller portion or loosing all together that bag of chips, candy bar , or can of soda, you will get the desired results .

I also cycle, avg. 200 miles a week. I am entered in a century for charity next Sunday where I will do my best to use as much mechanical advantage to keep the rpm at a constant and conserve as much energy as possible.

Cycling is to help keep me in good cardio shape. Proper diet relative to activity, environment, and individuals' goals, keeps your weight where you want it.

Diet still trumps exercise.

I'm also not following this. You say that you ride 200 miles per week. That's about 1.4 hours per day average (assuming you can ride ~20mph). I'd estimate about 500 Calories per hour riding (several years ago, lab tests for myself yielded 500-1000 Cal per hour. I'm not sure how accurate this value is). So that's over 700 Cal burned every day. How is that less effective than cutting 150 Cal/day out of your diet? Unless the additional exercise causes you to consume more than you otherwise would have...