How much weight can you lose bicycling everyday?

Question

I'm 5'3''.
I weigh 243lbs
I'm african american female.

I'll be riding everyday for at least an hour.

Answer 1

It depends on your diet and the intensity of your ride. I got back into biking about 4 years ago after a 15+ year absence. I dropped about 50 pounds in about 9 months. I didn't starve myself, I just ate sensibly and tried to reduce the nighttime snacking, which was (and still is) my biggest weakness. My weight now has leveled off even though I'm still riding every day. I was up to around 235lbs and now I'm about 185. The sooner you get started, the sooner the pounds will go away! Good Luck!!

Don't worry about how much you're losing each day, just concentrate on doing your workout every day, the weight will take care of itself if you stick to your routine.

Answer 2

That depends on a lot of factors:

How long are you bicycling? 30 minutes? An hour?

How fast will you go? 10 miles per hour, 20? Or just leisurely?

Are you using a stationary bike like at a gym or a bicycle out on the streets?

And then for weight loss, you have to factor in your intake (what you eat). There’s a good site called www.caloriesperhour.com where you can calculate various activities and the amount of calories you will burn within a given time according to your weight (people who weigh more burn calories faster). I would go there after factoring in how many calories you take in a day (if you’re losing weight, I would limit it to 1000-1200 per day) to find out how much weight you could lose.

Answer 3

Assuming that you will travel somewhere between 10 and 15 miles in that hour you should burn around 360 Kilo calories.
(i.e. 100 watts x 24% Average body efficiency).

As long as this, plus other exercise is greater than what you eat you will loose weight.

Weight loss may be a little slower to start with, since you may need to build muscle. If you keep it up, the weight loss will increase, as will the distance you can cover in an hour.

Try to eat well or you will run out of energy quickly. If your still doing this in six to eight weeks you will be well on your way to a happier healthier you.

You will also find that a lot of the trips that you you used to do in your car would be done on the bike instead.(good for your hip pocket and the environment).

Answer 4

This is one factor in an equation that contains many factors. How far are you riding? What time of day? Are there hills involved or not? And those are just the questions concerning your exercise.

Weight gain (or loss) has more to do with what you DON'T EAT than anything else. No amount of physical exertion will make up for a poor diet. You can't lose weight regardless of how much you might exercise and still "eat anything you want" contrary to what the people who are trying to sell you a "weight loss plan" might tell you.

Correct dieting is the key. Focus on eating fats and proteins and eliminate sugar (and starches) from your diet.

Answer 5

Get yourself a heart rate monitor to wear when you ride. If you set it up with your body/age stats, it should give you an accurate calories burned reading. A Polar F4 is a good base model. This will help with your calorie intake planning. 3500 calories is one lb of weight loss - so a 500 calorie workout every day for a week, with your caloric intake at a level for a sedentary person (1200-1900 range) would mean losing a pound a week.

The biggest help to eating will be to eat small meals - 3 small meals with 3 healthy snacks 2-3 hours between and after. Try to not eat after 9 p.m., drink lots of water, avoid fructose sweetened products (soda pop). Helps your body to not go into starvation mode (binge eating because you are excessively hungry, so your body tries to stock up when food becomes available) and eating often helps to level out your blood sugars.

As you build muscle, you will burn calories faster. Try to start some form of core exercising (pilaties, yoga or specific core training for beginners) after a month or two of dedicated riding. You need to strengthen your core muscles (cycling doesn't do a good job of that) to build more muscle to help burn more fat - plus it strengthens your back, stomach and upper body to help you ride faster and longer.

Answer 6

I think that's great. You'll be really happy if you ride every day. Not just about your physical appearance - I think you'll be a happier person. Riding just does that to people.

Answer 7

it depends on your diet and metabolism

but daily excercise is the first step in weight loss

go for it and best of luck!

Answer 8

Well you can lose weight ! And it makes your stomcah go down ! So go 'head and ride your bike !!! hihi ... !!

Answer 9

How many miles are you riding?

Answer 10

Lots... depends on hard you're pedaling (uphill, etc.)