Weight Management

This winter my lovely wife and I have tackled a much stricter diet.  She found a wonderful book full of great receipts made with as much natural ingredients as possible and serving sizes coming in around 400 calories each.  I have three meals and a snack totaling 1600 calories.  Throw in a couple coffees and a nibble on some finger foods (Cashews, etc) here and there and I come in for the day around 1800-1900.  We have greatly reduced the wine and beer consumptions, limiting it to weekends and when we do enjoy we try and keep it to a couple rather the a few :)

Lets just say, my winter weight is at an all time low on the scale, I am currently in mid March seeing numbers flash on the scale I usually see in late July in the height of racing or my peak fitness.

This is very exciting for may reasons.  One I look great.  More importantly, bike racing is greatly impacted by one's personal weight and weight of your bike.  You may ask yourself why is that, simple, GRAVITY!  The person that wins the races is the person with the best "weight-to-power" ratio.  I may put out way more power then many other cyclist but do to my very large size (in the biking world I am huge) I don't win a lot of races.  My Power has to be way higher to fight the dreaded gravity effect from my weight.    Also, why I don't send more then I already do on my bike to make it lighter since I my self could lose 10-20 lbs will give me much better results then dropping $2-3000 on a frame that weighs 3/4 lb lighter then what I have now.

Looking forward to getting outside and doing some real work out soon!