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+1 greek yoghurt, or low fat cottage cheese. I like to mix frozen berries in or dip apple slices into it (though I guess that doesn't fill the "low sugar" criteria). Adding a little cinnamon is nice as well. Lunch meats - I probably eat way too much sodium but I sweat bucketloads when I run or cycle, which I do a lot.…

It took me an awfully long time to carve out the space and time for myself to pursue my fitness goals. I'd always been reasonably active but never really working towards anything in particular (I'm a cyclist/swimmer/runner). My wanting to go for a run was often met with such disdain, comments like "you don't *have* to go…

I can run 10-20km outside with no worries but I always get bored on the treadmill. I usually last about 10-20 minutes at steady state and then I start messing around. My favourite "game" to play is every 30s (or pick whatever interval you like, could be distance, could be time) I increase the incline by whatever the…

Greek yoghurt! I eat so much of it now, breakfast, snacks, dessert sometimes :)

Yeah when I run I get people beeping at me occasionally as they drive past...which makes me feel uncomfortable but they're gone quickly. When I ride my bike they're usually more angry than heckling, which can be scary.

lol that doesn't necessarily work if you like apples, but yeah, pick a food you're not really fussed on and if you don't really want to eat it then you're probably not actually hungry.

30g raw oats mixed with a dash of milk and 170g tub of plain fat-free greek yoghurt then left to absorb in the fridge while I was on my bike. Then I added some frozen berries. And coffee. Always coffee. It's missing the fat, but I'll probably grab an apple with some almond/peanut butter in a bit.

No multivitamin, but I eat heaps and heaps of fruit and vegetables. Probably 3+ pieces of fruit and half my lunch and dinner would be vegetables, as well as a lot of carrots and capsicum for snacks. All sorts of colours, green and otherwise :) I'd be really surprised if I was missing there, just given how much I eat and…

Doesn't work for everyone, but I weigh daily (or almost) but don't focus on the day's number, since it can fluctuate by as much as a few kg depending on what I've eaten and what I've done exercise-wise (a few months back the day after a hard 150km ride it went up nearly 5kg, not kidding, but down again in a few days, was…

That'll most likely be to do with the balance of hormones (estrogen vs progesterone), I've had similar experiences as things stated up. I'm 25 now, so yeah, I have to be careful. I guess so long as it doesn't cause issues there for you then you're fine :)

Just I guess a note of caution, be wary of dropping too low, especially as a female endurance athlete, for hormonal reasons. Been there, done that, bad idea. A few years ago numerous life-stresses got the better of me and I basically stopped eating, not to lose weight, it just sort of happened. I dropped down to 47kg…

I was at an all girls school, graduated in 2008. School PE for me was awful, I hated to run and I hated netball, and I couldn't play tennis (lots of the girls had lessons, a minority of us had no idea) and those seemed to be the go-to options from our teachers. I used to swim a lot, often up to 12 sessions a week with two…

I was an Asics Kayano wearer exclusively for about 5 years, then some reps from Mizuno came to my running club one night a couple of years ago with shoes for us to try. I tried the Wave Inspire 10s and loved them so much I went and bought some (I was due for new shoes and they were giving us a 30% off voucher for their…

Apparently I don't get true "piriformis syndrome" (says the physio) but I have had issues with that sort of thing. If I correctly recall what I was told, in a certain percentage of the population the sciatic nerve runs through the piriformis muscle and in some people if that muscle is overactive, usually because of weak or…

If you're only really exercising for weight loss and recovery time isn't an issue for you, it doesn't matter, though some people find if they exercise at a mod-high intensity for a prolonged period then don't eat soon after they end up very hungry and over-eating later.

It depends on where the pain is. In the joint? Front? Back? Could be all sorts of things. Best bet would be to see a physio or similar, they can probably tell you what it is and recommend how to fix it.

I'm lucky that I have a fair bit of power, and a really good cardio base from years of swimming and running before I picked up cycling last year. I'm yet to ever have to walk a hill, but if I lost a few kg it'd make a huge difference to climbing for me I think. Though I reckon the boys would still be waiting for me at the…

I'm in a sort of similar situation, trying to balance trying (not really succeeding) to lose about 5kg or a little more (up to 10, but I'll see how I look and feel with 5) while still maintaining a fairly high training volume (approx 15hour/week including cycling, running, swimming, strength). I ride a lot with a bunch of…

Yeah I'm definitely with you on just getting hungry, I don't really crave sugary crap or anything like that, but oh my god are there days that I want to eat anything that isn't nailed down. Even food I don't like, I'm just so hungry!

It depends so, so much on the machine and in particular the range of motion you're using. Don't get discouraged!

Yep, everything will be some kind of approximation, and it really depends on what you're doing. If you keep track of the deficit and corresponding weight changes you should get an idea. That said, I would really, really caution against eating back all the calories if you're using MFP estimates or estimates from cardio…

Another progression you can try is to do them on your feet but with your hands on a step/chair/bench. The higher it is the easier. Focus on doing them slowly with a very controlled movement pattern, and through the full range of motion. Make sure you're engaging your core as well. I can do a couple of "normal" ones (on the…

My two cents... In short: It really depends on the person and what you normally do. Training stress is a combination of frequency and intensity, but what's too much for you might not be too much for you. "Listen to your body" might sound like new-age crap, but in my experience it works. If you're feeling fine, then that's…

I'm working on squashing the little voice inside that tells me I'm not good enough and I shouldn't bother trying. Most of the people I train with guys from uni (I'm female) so they've got a natural genetic advantage (lol). It's difficult to not just feel like I'm useless because they're all so much stronger and faster than…

There's a Facebook group called "Girlride! Melbourne" which is females from all over Melbourne and people use it for "Hey is anyone in the <whatever> area up for a ride?" and you can say how fast/far/etc and see if there's someone who'd be interested. It's not a club or anything, just "women in Melbourne who ride bikes",…

Yep, then the numbers are probably accurate. In my experience the Polar numbers are pretty reasonable when it's set up correctly. Plateau's are fairly common in weight loss. The body can be very efficient, unfortunately. Sometimes you have to further increase the calorie deficit, or something else you can try is to try…

My bike computer is a 500, which I don't think will estimate VO2 max, but my running watch (Polar) has a function that estimates based on resting heart rate variability, which was estimating 47 vs the 45 that I was tested at. If I use my most recent 2km running time in a calculator I get about 40, but I'm far better…

The accuracy of the calories burned from the watch will depend a bit on what sort of activity you're doing (steady-state cardio they're generally quite good, but for interval training it can over-estimate because it's based on heart rate and it can take a while for your heart rate to go up and especially down with the…

No worries :smile: I find all this stuff interesting, I'm a cyclist and runner and have friends who work in these areas, so I like to pick their brains. One further note on VO2 max while I think about it, is that the number that people are usually quoting is a measure relative to your weight. So if a 100kg person and a…

One way I used to increase my distance was to add it to the start of a run on one of my regular routes. So if I knew that I had, say a 10km route that I liked to follow and I wanted to do 12km that day but was having trouble getting past the mental wall, I'd go and run 1km the opposite way to what I'd normally go, so I'd…