Diet and gaining weight?

tehpr3chr said:

I have been on a diet since highschool. for those of you who saw my other post a little over a month ago, u read that i went from 325 then, to 235 today...i recently gave up mountain biking, and began road biking...i finally paid off my giant ocr2 friday, and have ridden it every day since....just sat. thru today...anyways, my diet pretty much consists of basically the same thing every day:
breakfast:
half a bowl (1-2 cups) cornflakes w/ soymilk
lunch:
1-2 fat free chicken breast with mozarella cheese slice on em sandwiches w/ 100% whole wheat bread
dinner:
varies obvously, but tonight i had a burger from the grill, a bit of beenie weenies, very few fries baked in the oven, and two dill pickle slices...

i try not to snack in between meals, but if i do get hungry, i eat a piece of fruit or some peanuts or somethin...oh, and btw, i only drink water...nothing else, just water...was hard at first but now everything else is nasty...

here's what i'm curious about though. i got down to 231 on like friday, but then when i started riding these past three days, i've shot up to 235...i know i know...it's only 4 lbs...but after being large my entire life, i get more paranoid about these things...i've worked hard for my weight loss, and i wanna keep my weight down...now, is the gain just my normal body variations in weight, or am i getting muscle and it's causing me to gain?...

Unless you are lifting weights, and taking steroids, there's no way possible to gain weight from cycling. No way. Only the extremely genetically gifted could gain any appreciable muscle from only riding, and while on a calorie-restricted diet to boot!

And what makes you think you are just NOW gaining the muscle? Wouldn't you have done that when you FIRST started riding (if it were indeed possible to gain) rather after you've been riding for awhile?

Worry not.

Aztec said:

Unless you are lifting weights, and taking steroids, there's no way possible to gain weight from cycling. No way. Only the extremely genetically gifted could gain any appreciable muscle from only riding, and while on a calorie-restricted diet to boot!

And what makes you think you are just NOW gaining the muscle? Wouldn't you have done that when you FIRST started riding (if it were indeed possible to gain) rather after you've been riding for awhile?

Worry not.

By the way, work in more vegetables and fiber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The variation in your weight is most likely due to the differeing amounts of water in your body, and also how long it was since you last ate. my body weight can vary over a kilo day to day and i am only about 80kg. As someone has mentioned it is very unlikely you have gained any muscle mass on such a low calorie diet and in such a small time period.

l1ncs said:

The variation in your weight is most likely due to the differeing amounts of water in your body, and also how long it was since you last ate. my body weight can vary over a kilo day to day and i am only about 80kg. As someone has mentioned it is very unlikely you have gained any muscle mass on such a low calorie diet and in such a small time period.

just for the record, i drink on average about 150oz. of water a day, and like i said, water's all i drink...i guess some days i just hold the water in more..