Bike riding to lose weight

That will vary depending on your size, amount you want to lose, amount of food/calories you consume....etc. There is no magic number unfortunately...You just have to get out there and do it until you start getting results.

The bike riding will have nothing to do with the weight loss..it will be the calorie deficit.

I ride to work and back everyday, then at weekends I try to get out and do a bigger ride. But during the week its just a 6 mile round trip. To lose weight soley from riding, you need to be doing rides of 10 miles plus. Riding is good to buils stamina and its good for loss because your heart rate will stay in the fat burning zone for longer. But you need to put the time in.

I ride and do the couch to 5k running programme.

Assuming you're eating your TDEE, you need to bike 500-1000 calories a day.

To be more exact than we'd need to know your caloric intake, how many calories you burn when you ride, etc.

The bike riding will have nothing to do with the weight loss..it will be the calorie deficit.

This.

But definitely get a heart rate monitor and use that to gauge how much you are burning.
I try to go out 3 times a week. 12km with little coasting, and a hilly road to boot!
I burn 360 calories in 40 mintues. That is better than doing 40 minutes of Insanity for me, and nothing beats being outside!

Just get on it and start moving! But you can't just depend on it to lose weight for you. As others have said accurately, your activity plus your eating (I call it fueling) must equal a 500 - 1000 calorie DEFICIT daily for you to lose weight. Warning though: DON'T GO BEYOND THE 500-1000 DEFICIT or your body will think it's the Ice Age again and start holding on to all energy. It will think you are starving and won't release the fat. Because of that, no matter how good you feel with your physical activity, especially as you get stronger, you have to diligent about staying on that narrow fat-burning bridge until you have lost the excess weight.

-Debra

I started out losing weight just by walking. (up to 550 miles since jan) and I've lost almost 40lbs. I bought a HRM and had to add biking as exercise because I broke my foot. The HRM shows that I get my HR up a LOT higher than when I was walking so I know I'm burning more. I prefer the biking now because I can get my HR up faster and keep it up longer than I can while doing other things. I hope to get this foot healed so I can get back to walking though because it is a big stress reliever for me. I broke the foot when I tripped over my dog while working on C25K so it was hard to switch up my exercise routine but it can be done.
Just try it for a few weeks @30 minutes a day or so and see what happens. As long as you enjoy your exercise, the fat will melt off if you keep doing it. If you find out that you don't enjoy biking, try something else. Anything that makes you sweat will do it!
Oh yeah, and stay within your diary goals! Good luck!

If you use a smart phone, Endomundo is a free, nice app that will track your rides and speeds and estimate a calorie burn for each ride. I don't know how good the estimate is. They seemed realistic for me.

I love endomondo, but like MFP the calories burned are very high.

30-60 minutes a day is what I do.
Riding my bike (combining with jillian michaels) helped me to lose weight like crazy when I started (at least 1kg a week which is a little more than 2 lbs.).
Just use it to get to work, or friends, or the supermarket.. whatever! And make sure you get your heart rate up!! Don't focus on how long a day you have to be on your bike, that will be very demotivational! Just use it when you can and you'll notice you can spend a lot of time on it sometimes!

What Jillian Michaels ( I assume DVD) are you using? I would like to incorperate her workouts, with mine. I am just not sure which is best to use? I am running now so getting cardio, looking to tone and strengthen. I am sure all of Jillians DVDs are helpful, just looking for advise. Thx

I have recently taken up bike riding and LOVE it! Yesterday morning (before it dot oo hot) we took the kids and rode an easy 5 miles. Then last night me and the hubs went back out for another harder 5 miles! LOVE IT!!!

My friend/roommate went biking with her father for various distances almost every day for the past year, and along with eating healthy and right, I believe she said she's dropped about 40 pounds. Their rides started off with short distances, and then eventually they were biking to somewhere that was 15 miles away. It got intense, but she's proud.