New Studies Eat Into Diet Math

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 3, 2010 | Carl Bialik

[WackySam]

I’ve always thought it would be impossible to ride more than 100 miles a week without losing weight.

I did go from 225 to 170 over the course of 18 months, but now I just hold at 170 on 2500 calories per day even though every calorie/weight loss chart says I should be losing 1-2 pounds per week.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Buy a pedometer. It tells you how many steps you take (and converts it into miles), and how many calories you burn off. You have to walk more than you think to burn off a certain number of calories. Having the pedometer makes it fun.

[csmusaret]

Maybe you should weigh 195.

[Mr. Blonde]

Your body figures out how to work less to get the same thing done. You would probably keep losing if you added in running or some other type of exercise. If that is what you wanted of course. I would be ecstatic to be able to get to and hold 170.