Cycling nutrition is easy - it doesn't need to be hard for it to work
Why do you think your nutrition needs to be really hard and complicated for it to work as a cyclist trying to lose weight and improve your power to weight ratio?
When you fuel your rides everything falls into place. Easily.
I had 2 clients this week commenting on how EASY their weight loss has been using my cycling nutrition framework. Easy in the sense of disbelief because they thought it shouldn't be so easy and needed reassurance and reminders that what they were doing was working!
A female client who has lost 4kg in the last month with weekly 1:1 sessions on my gold nutrition coaching package questioned that it seemed 'too easy' and thought she maybe needed a bigger deficit. Despite losing 1kg a week consistently, having stable energy levels, no more sugar cravings and enjoying eating regular meals.
I reminded her that when these changes are 'easy' to stick with, they are easier to continue doing and stick with long term. The harder the change is, the less likely we are to stick with it for years to come. Which is essence the 'secret' to long term weight loss - being able to stick with those changes long term.
Cycling nutrition doesn't need to be hard to lose weight.
Similarly I was chatting with a second male client using the cycling nutrition framework who has learnt how to adapt his food intake around his training, now eats anywhere between 2000-5000kcal a day. He was also surprised and almost shocked at how he had managed to lose another kg in the past two weeks 'without having tried to'. Because when he was looking at the numbers on the nutrition tracking app, he thought he was eating too much.
This is the power of learning how to fuel your rides and applying nutrition timing appropriately to what you eat before, during and after your training.
Depending on the training you do, different days have different energy needs. Many people will eat the same thing day in day out, underfuelling their rides, eating back their calories afterwards and as a result their nutrition timing is completely out of whack.
It's time to stop eating REactively and learn how to eat PROactively when it comes to your nutrition as a cyclist.
When you learn how to fuel your training, it is easy to improve your performance and lose weight without compromising power at the same time because you ensure your body gets what it needs, when it needs it.
My cycling nutrition framework is a 4 step process to simplify how you eat around the training you are doing in a way you can sustain whether you are in full training mode, on holidays or taking a break from riding.
When you fuel your rides everything falls into place. It's easy to do, and that's why it works so well.
Gemma
Fuel your cycling with confidence
Learn how to fuel before, during and after cycling with the Cycling Nutrition Framework for optimal body weight, recovery and performance.