Excellent, loose weight by eating more, brilliant!. Although it's more about timing food than

eating more of it. Skipping breakfast can make your body hang on to its fat stores and

make it harder to lose weight, so kickstart your metabolism by eating a proper breakfast.

9. Like an American Pro

Give up gluten. Some people have legitimate health reasons why they need to avoid gluten,

but for many others it is a simple way to feel better, less bloated and sometimes lose

weight too. Often it's just a great way to control your diet as it does take some

planning, but the anecdotal advantages of going without can't be ignored.

8. Like a French Pro

Keep your legs warm at all times - cold legs are fat legs.

This is clearly a load of rubbish, and might explain why so many french pros look a little

fat and ride quite slowly. Baguettes and Brie are not good performance food. In all seriousness

though, some people spend their lives trying to get ripped, but sometimes it just doesn't

happen. Never try to sweat it out to lose weight.

7. Like an Italian Pro

Eat pasta but never, ever drink coke.

Another old school technique passed down from Soigneur to Soigneur. There is no science

behind it and this kind of thinking is gradually leaving pro cycling. Along with avoiding tomatoes,

potatoes, shellfish, milk...

6. Like Thomas de Gendt:

When Thomas de Gendt came out all guns blazing in 2011, leaner, meaner and faster than ever

before he put it down to two simple things - hard work - and no sausages. If only it

was always that simple. Or maybe it is? Cutting out one or two things could make all

the difference to whether you lose weight or not, whether it's biscuits, donuts, chocolate,

beer, whatever. And remember, it's never essential to cut something out altogether,

just limiting quantities could be enough.

5. Like Alberto Contador:

Like most Grand Tour winners since Jan Ullrich, Alberto looks like a skeleton, so what's

the secret? Can we mention steak? And clenbuterol? Don't go down this route, it's a terrible

path. Taking anything to lose weight isn't healthy, and you could end up losing performance

rather than fat.

4. Go hard at the end of your rides

Recent research has shown that finishing a training session with some high intensity

work is a great way to lose weight. The theory goes that this increases Post Exercise Oxygen

Consumption which triggers fat burning.

3. Exercise your willpower. Sometimes it comes down to this. Sometimes you just have to say

no. No to the second cake. No to the fifth beer. No to the block of cheese. It can be

that simple.

2. Eat more on the bike and less off it.

Fueling less on the bike can mean that you need to pig out when you get home, or worse

still slows your metabolism. Eating more on the bike means you won't blow, and won't

be quite so hungry when you get home, and so be less tempted to eat the contents of

the fridge.

1. Eat healthily. The old ones are always the best. You want

to loose weight? Eat a bit more healthily, eat loads of vegetables, eat lean meat, eat

complex carbs, eat simple fats. It's not fashionable to diet like this but nothing

will make you feel as good or help you lose weight quite like eating healthily.

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