he Frontal Surface Area (FSA) is an estimation of the degree to which your body shape effects wind resistance. The greater the calculated value the greater the wind resistance. For you this equates to 0.42m2 which compares poorly to elite road cyclists who score 0.32m2. A key factor in this analysis is the percentage body fat with elite males having an average value of 11.0%, although this has been shown to increase to around 13.4% during the off season. Your score is currently 18.0% which is higher than would be expected for a road cyclist. Therefore by reducing your fat mass and maintaining your aerobic fitness you will automatically become a more economical athlete. There are two options: firstly consider your diet and examine the total amount of calories that are being consumed in the form of saturated/trans fats. Secondly the levels of fat mass may be a consequence of the training phase that you are currently in. Therefore if the volume of training was to increase fat mass would decrease.
That's my reason for losing weight.
I could use this as a perfect excuse not to lose weight, since I intend using you as a human wind break!
I make no apologies for posting on this thread because I have valid reasons (I believe) for wanting to lose the weight I recently gained, and this is the weight loss thread so where better to discuss/learn about it? There is a wealth of information and support here that many of us can benefit from, and I don't think that having a BMI below the obese category should mean we can't post here. That said, I would not go onto a Weight Watchers (or similar) web site to discuss my own weight loss, because here many of us are interested in loss for fairly athletic reasons which is a whole different kettle of fish to being obese and needing to lose it to be averagely healthy.
These are my main reasons for wanting to lose weight:
1. I can't afford a new wardrobe and my clothes fit me better when I am sub-60kg
2. I start getting depressed when I put on weight, and I have previously been nearly fatally clinically depressed so this is a bad_thing
3. I need to have goals and targets in my life or things tend to start going to shit
4. I want to get faster on my bike, which for me includes being lighter and having more muscle and less fat
5. Health reasons. I am severely asthmatic and find that the fitter/lighter I am the fewer chest infections I get and the fewer courses of steroids I end up needing.
6. I try to set my kids a good example with exercise and diet choices because I don't want them to grow up using food for something other than nutrition. I've seen the heartache that comfort eating can cause people.