if i go biking for an hour everyday will i lose weight?

Question

even if i do eat a bit of junk food

Answer 1

try and lay off the junk food, not only will it not help you in your attempt to lose weight, but it's just plain bad for you. try eating yogurt or organic granola bars when you want a snack. I'm not a biker, I'm a runner, but i know it takes a long time for me to lose weight. i play soccer 2 times a day and eat like a pig, so i lose none, but if you eat healthy and take an intense bike ride, then you could be on your way to burning calories! just make sure you really push yourself while riding a bike. you could get a better workout riding hard for 10min than riding easy for an hour. try to increase your distance ever few days or so. also, be consistent. you can lose most of your strength by just taking 3 or 4 days off of exercise, so keep it up!

^^^that was basic motivation. to know if you are losing weight, it will take time and a scale unless you want to calculate exactly how many calories you are taking in every day with how many you are burning on your daily bike ride and blahhh bla bla. however you choose to do it, hope the links below help.

also, it matters how much you weigh now and how fast your metabolism is. if you are of a normal weight if not skinnier, than i suggest making sure if you REALLY want to lose weight. if you do, it will be more difficult. if you are slightly overweight or coming upon obese, then it will be easier in some ways to lose weight and harder in others.

Answer 2

It depends on what else you're doing. Try to substitute the junk food with healthy food. For example, dump the chips and get a fruit salad or instead of a chocolate bar, eat a lite yoghurt. Whenever you want to "diet", you should look at it as more of a lifestyle change--trying to be healthier. Of course, bike riding is going to help you in so many ways, so why not do it? Try exploring the area's bike trails--the ones around here are really nice! :)

Answer 3

You could but it depends how hard you work yourself with the bike in that hour.
Plus you should try to bring little snacks with you that is both healthy and like the food your used to right now.
You can't just ride slow and sit slouched riding a bike. You actually have to work harder than the bike like pedal up hills or even when your bike is moving without you pedaling, still do it anyway.
Also at home try adding some fruits and veggies to your diet but don't change it fully and just experience your taste with other things besides just junk food.

Answer 4

This would be a great start. When it comes to loosing weight you need to do 2 different kinds of exercise. Aerobic (riding your bike) and weight training. The bike riding will help you trim the fat and problem areas. While light weight training will help you tone back the areas where you lost the weight. (IE: tighten up the skin, and prevent sagging) Start small with your riding if your just getting back into exercise. Maybe 15 min a day, 25, 45, a full hour. Could take a month till your comfortable with an hour pace.

Answer 5

Say you eat a pack of 6 Oreos which equals 270 calories, and you burn 270 calories biking, you will cancel out the snack. But, if you sit on your butt the rest of the day and eat more junk food than you burn, you will not lose weight.

Here's a calorie calculator that will tell you how many calories you can burn for different activities. Type in your weight, and 60 minutes if that's how long you plan on biking, and scroll down til you find bicycling at it will tell you how many calories you'll burn. http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm

Answer 6

Depends on your definition of "a bit" and how you bike. If you have a Snickers bar and go for a nice leisurely pedal, say bye-bye to your calorie loss due to biking.
If you crank up the bike for the whole hour then you'll get some fat burn benefits and muscle and the Snickers bar won't hurt much. Still, I'd watch the calorie and fat content of "the bit" of junk food you have.

Answer 7

Yes you will..

Biking is considered cardiovascular exercise because your working out your cardivascular system, its the same as being on a treadmill. You should also watch your calorie intake so that you wont be wasting time biking when you eat all those high fatty foods. The best way to lose weight healthy is to do cardio exercise and diet.

Answer 8

Actually if you are referring to the scale numbers going down...no you won't. You will be gaining muscle which weighs more than fat.

A good way to loose weight is to use a calorie counter watch

Keep to a 1,200 food intake

Add 1,200 plus 3,500 (equals one pound of fat) ...and that is the total amount of calories you need to burn each day. Its actually really easy once you start watching the numbers and it doesn't seem like work or exercise. Its just a matter of changing the way you think about loosing weight.

I use this method when i gain some pounds. The first time I did this I went from 168 to 127

Answer 9

Yes as long as U only eat a bit of junk food & the rest of your food plan is healthy

Answer 10

as long as its not a really slow biking, and you do kind of a good diet, yes. you should erally check ur calories u eat in the day and the ones u burn, use a metabolic calculator, if u go intensive biking for an hour each day ud probably lose some weight.