How long do I bikeride?

Right now I'm at 1400 calories a day, and I figured that excersizing would help me lose weight faster. I can bike ride around my town since I live in a small village, but how long should I bike ride for? I like to ride around the high school and elementary school track, but after a little while I get bored of bike riding and go on the swings for a while. How long should I bike ride? And if going on the swings helps too, how long should I do that?

The key is not to loose weight "faster", but healthy though a balanced diet and exercise. The first step is to plug in your numbers in to a calculator designed for kids to see how many calories you are burning, then go from there. A healthy daily deficit is around 600 Calories.

As for your question there is no real "right" answer. I think bare minimum recommendation is 30 minute of "vigorous" aerobic exercise a day. Although this kind of makes it sound like it is some kind of choir that you have to do. You are a kid try finding something you enjoy doing. Exercise shouldn't be boring. Maybe join a sports club at your school, etc?

UD

I find that riding around town keeps me more interested than riding on a track.  If you have local bike trails, you may want to try to go for a ride on them at least once or twice a week, depending on how close they are to you.

A sports club is a good idea, but maybe if you enjoy biking then you could start a biking club of your own.  You could check with your school to see if they will sponsor your club idea.  Finding friends that share your interests really helps make it fun and get you motivated.  Even if you ride the track, doing so with friends will keep it from getting boring.

I ride for about an hour when I ride.

For me, it helps to have an iPod. No, not with the headphones all the way on my ears, but with the iPod cranked up and the headphones resting around my neck so I can hear traffic and music- like a car radio.

Otherwise, it just helps to have a destination. If you are cycling with a purpose, and need to go to the grocery store or something, then it's easier to push yourself because you know you need to get there.

Remember that you need to pedal vigorously in order to loose weight. Get yourself a heart rate monitor to make sure you are on track.

Setting an absolute number like "1400 calories per day" is going to be the wrong approach.  Using this site, you can come up with your maintenance level based upon your height, age, frame size, and current weight.  Plug in your daily activities, and you have your total burn for the day.

Subtract 500 to 1000 from that, and you get your target caloric intake to lose 1-2 pounds per week.  It is not safe or healthy to lose faster than that, and you will inevitably set yourself up to yo-yo right back to (or beyond) where you are now.  At a bare minimum, as a teenager, I'd say you don't want to go below 1500 even if (maintenance - 500) would take you below that.

Weight loss and maintenance work best when you make a number of small changes to your lifestyle that add up, in total, to a big change over time.  It is much easier to maintain that way--deprivation doesn't work; it just leads to binge eating later on.

As for bike riding, UD had it right that 30 minutes, three times per week, gets you the required cardio to be healthy.  If you like riding, and want to ride more, that's OK, too, just work up to it gradually.

There are, invariably, going to be some biking clubs in your area, and there will be beginner women and juniors among them.  You might hook up for a slow group ride now and then ("C" group--slow pace, no dropping riders who can't keep up).  There's safety in numbers, as they say.

Yes, biking trails can work well, but MUPs (Multi-Use Paths) stink on ice.  If you want to try a MUP, you'll have to go slowly, because they'll be clogged with oblivious pedestrians pushing strollers, people walking dogs with their leashes the whole way across the trail, etc.

Mountain biking is another alternative that will keep it interesting, and it can be a vigorous, challenging workout that also builds a strong sense of balance, even if you're only on reasonably easy single track.  Best to go with a buddy if you go off-road.