I stumbled across an online cycling book, Cycling Performance Simplified:
http://www.americanroadcycling.com/T...px?frm=MenVert
Some of it is very funny. The thread running through it is he is working with his wife, Mary(AKA Black Widow), to do their group ride at a 23+ average speed. They are around my age, mid 50's.
I think it's worth reading, and the page on diet called
Naturally Thin should be required reading for everyone that starts a diet log on this forum.
A couple of gems from that page:
"You are fat because you eat too much of the wrong stuff, plus your gargantuan overweight body has been a long term project, and it is going to take time to remedy.
You are not going to get into that bathing suit in the next three weeks no matter what diet you go on."
"Being fat does not mean you are a bad person.
It merely means you are an ignorant sedentary sloth.
Of course, that is not your fault.
You are only a sloth because you have been sedentary so long you can't move anymore even if you try.
You have only been sedentary because you are ignorant of the rabidly horrid effect inaction has on your health.
And you are only ignorant of that fact because nobody has ever told you the simple truth (how bad your lifestyle is for you) in a way that might convince you.
In fact virtually every product advertisement you are using to get your information has a strong interest in keeping you stupid and sedentary.
Let me fix that right now.
A sedentary lifestyle is the absolute worst thing for you."