I'm 5'6", 165lbs, I bike 6-8 miles every day and do resistance training 6 days/week. I also have limited myself to 1800 cals/day and at least 130g protein. For two years I was biking 6-8 miles every day, doing resistance training and maintaining 210lbs which, at my height, is bordering on clinical obesity. If you could be healthy just by training and eating what you want I would have done it twice.

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hermitcrab 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I don't understand how you wouldn't lose weight. Are you sure the 1800 kcals is accurate. Are you including what you drink?

	▲	reverendsteveii 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oh no, I lost weight when I was on the 1800kcal. it was when I was working out what I intuitively feel like is a lot more than most people but still eating what I wanted that I didn't lose weight, which anecdotally fits with the premise of the article.

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tpm a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Your bike ride is too short to lose weight.

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reverendsteveii a day ago | parent [-]

it's not though, because I lost 25% of my weight

	▲	tpm a day ago \| parent [-]
		"For two years I was biking 6-8 miles every day, doing resistance training and maintaining 210lbs"