ric_stern/RST said:
i'm talking about the literature that refers to weights etc and trained cyclists, and the underlying principles involved.
if you think i'm posting misinformation then you don't have a good understanding of the work in this area, which doesn't surprise me considering that you think your diet is good (your wife is correct).
i suggest you go back and read some of the earlier pages of this thread especially those around page 5 and 6, where we talk more about the mechanisms involved (see posts by Roadie Scum, Andy Coggan, and myself). If you search through the archives of this forum and look for posts by 2Lap as well.
ric
i require some 8/9000 calories during long ride days, 3/4000 of those calories are at the expense of cycling, i get those calories by whatever means possible, if i was to eat carbs alone then i wouldn't stop, 12-15% of those calories comes from protein, 25% comes from fats 60% of my calories comes from carbs, i eat alot of fat and maltodextrin and carb drinks. since it is an easy way of upping my calorie intake.
My diet works, i obtain the calories i require, i recover within 2 days completly.
just cause my diet isn't steamed this, boiled that, fresh this organic the other or green leafy, just cause it isn't the same as yours doesn't make it a poor diet. a poor diet would in my terms be 1000kcal short or to much, doesn't make no difference to me weather food is fryed grilled steamed boiled, organic or not, to me aslong as the calories are there in the quantities i require i don't care. my diet is fine, i just preapare the foods in different ways than you with oil fat, i don't care.
But you probably think fat is a bad thing, but i like my diet when i have very long rides i need extra 2/3000kcal or so, so thats 2 giant fruit and nut 1kg choclate bars complete with 1 litre of irnbru with an apple banna etc and what ever else i can get my hands on to eat. i love my diet and i bet there are hundreds of people out there that would love it also, if it mean't they could reatin a perfect weight.
65miles @ 23mph avg can't be that bad a diet and remain 11.5st, ohhh and i have tryed the higher carbs thing, but recovery periods are slower than extra protein, since i don't have a deskjob, but a job that requires 8hrs strenuous work walking carrying and lifting, i need recovery periods to be as quick as possible to be in condition to do my job and to beablee to pedal the miles to and from work.
diet change left me run down with a cold, so the missus agreed that my diet works for me.