The Cyclopreneur Coach

Knee replacement 8 months ago to completing this years 106 mile and 17,700 feet of climbing 2026 Etape du Tour 🚴‍♂️ Congratulations Steve, awesome achievement!👏 Click the link in bio for more

Always hungry off the bike?

Weekend ride done, ride uploaded and then the wheels fall off completely?

A big lunch because you earned it. Snacks through the afternoon that wouldn’t normally be there. A larger dinner, a few drinks, a Sunday that follows roughly the same pattern because the weekend has already gone that way.

By Monday morning, the scale is up. Again, and the frustration of a solid week of riding undone in 48 hours sits with you all over again.

This is the cycle that’s been quietly killing your progress for years.

The cruel part is it feels completely justified in the moment. You rode hard. Your body is demanding it. The hunger after a big weekend ride isn’t weakness; it’s biology doing exactly what it’s designed to do when you’ve gone out under-fuelled and run yourself into the ground.

That’s the part most riders miss.

The overeating on Saturday afternoon isn’t the problem. It’s the consequence of not fuelling properly during the ride. Of arriving home with blood sugar crashed and hunger hormones through the roof, standing in front of the fridge making decisions no amount of willpower was going to win.

Fix the fuelling on the bike and the uncontrollable hunger that hijacks every weekend starts to lose its grip.

The last 10-15 kilos that have been sitting there through summer after summer aren’t stubborn because you lack discipline. They’re stubborn because the weekend pattern has never been addressed at the source.

Sort that, and Monday mornings start telling a very different story.

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Can’t stop eating after the weekend ride?

Weekend ride done, ride uploaded and then the wheels fall off completely?

A big lunch because you earned it. Snacks through the afternoon that wouldn’t normally be there. A larger dinner, a few drinks, a Sunday that follows roughly the same pattern because the weekend has already gone that way.

By Monday morning, the scale is up. Again, and the frustration of a solid week of riding undone in 48 hours sits with you all over again.

This is the cycle that’s been quietly killing your progress for years.

The cruel part is it feels completely justified in the moment. You rode hard. Your body is demanding it. The hunger after a big weekend ride isn’t weakness; it’s biology doing exactly what it’s designed to do when you’ve gone out under-fuelled and run yourself into the ground.

That’s the part most riders miss.

The overeating on Saturday afternoon isn’t the problem. It’s the consequence of not fuelling properly during the ride. Of arriving home with blood sugar crashed and hunger hormones through the roof, standing in front of the fridge making decisions no amount of willpower was going to win.

Fix the fuelling on the bike and the uncontrollable hunger that hijacks every weekend starts to lose its grip.

The last 10-15 kilos that have been sitting there through summer after summer aren’t stubborn because you lack discipline. They’re stubborn because the weekend pattern has never been addressed at the source.

Sort that, and Monday mornings start telling a very different story.

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Ride numbers improving but still carrying extra kilos?

Carrying an extra 10-15kg up steep ramps?

The moment the gradient bites, you already know.

Everyone else shifts gear and lifts the pace. You shift gear and just try to hold on. By the top you’re gasping, legs burning, watching the group reform ahead of you without breaking a sweat.

Same thing. Every steep ramp. Every ride.

Here’s the maths nobody spells out.

On a steep climb, your engine and gravity are in a direct fight. And gravity doesn’t care how many hours you’ve put in this year. It only cares about one number, the total weight it has to pull against.

Carry an extra 10-15kg into that fight and you’re not just slightly disadvantaged. You’re asking your legs to do a completely different job to the rider who’s already at the top.

Think about it this way. Strap a loaded backpack to the rider who’s dropping you on every ramp and see how quickly the gap closes. That’s the reality of what you’re carrying up every climb, invisibly, on every single ride.

The engine might be fine. The fitness might genuinely be there. But neither of those things can fully compensate for the dead weight fighting against them when the road gets steep.

This is why more training alone never quite solves it. You can’t out-pedal 10-15 kilos on a 12% gradient. You can only remove them.

Drop it properly, without losing the power you’ve built and those ramps that have been beating you stop being the moment you dread and start being the moment you move.

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Snacking and constantly eating killing your progress?

Been riding every week since spring but still getting left behind on hills?