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Living is a fat burning event in a calorie defecit Cardio contributes to the calorie defecit. Therefore It is a fat burning exercise. Making this very simple weight management equation unduly complex is a bit silly. Eat at a calorie defecit and add some fun exercise you enjoy. The magic will happen. There is no rocket…

Cans of almonds Jerky Quest bars if you have a little carb room in your day or are going to burn them off

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All that hard work and fat burning drive your blood sugar up. But you know that is not the same as eating ice cream driving your blood sugar up Hang in there. It is a major pain. You got it though.

Insurance company spanking as motivation Ha At first I thought their measures seemed extreme but it has benefited you. I guess it works. You have undeniable results! It would be a bit humbling to admit being watched made it work. But I get it. I share my results with my daughter. It is one of those things where hearing her…

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I walked by the mirror in the locker room at the gym and didn't feel like I needed to hide under a beach towel. Body hate is going away. No love yet but not embarrassed to change in the locker room Baby steps

You must exercise longer If you do a more intense fuel burning exercise for the same duration you do a low intensity low fuel burning exercise, you will burn more calories. There may be a discrepancy on the machines you are using if they tell you that. Calories are just fuel. Intense exercise burns more fuel in same given…

200 pounds. Goal of 188. I eat 200 grams of protein - 800 calories Low carb is 80 or less a day - 320 calories I try to keep at 1900 or less per day so that leaves me around 800 calories for fat with moderate adjustments for a significant amount of calorie burn. Weight loss is slow. But I'm ok with that.

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Eating excess calories causes a physical reaction called "de lardo gluteus", fat goes to your butt. Anything beyond that is over complicated ramblings.

You could do a variety of workouts for different goals. Higher intensity periods of cardio can help lower your resting heart rate. They burn mad calories but you can't do them for as long. Some intense exercises are a little bit more stress on your joints. I like doing some intense days now but did not when I first started…

Put your lock on your gym bag as a habit. Lock it to your zipper or something as soon as you unlock your locker It will keep you from leaving it at the gym. I have forgetting my lock!!

Fat burn rate is an endurance term, zone 2 most often, abused as a sales and marketing term. If you are doing a 50+ mile bike ride then zone 2 is probably a great idea. You burn a slightly higher percentage of fat as fuel. I keep in zone 2 for triathlon training. 4-5 hours in duration. Aside if that, I would not do steady…

No accidental bodybuilders Best line ever It takes a long long time of busting butt to add 10lbs of muscle and drop 5% of oft fat. I don't think reaching those two goals is a real "threat" of accidentally happening for the majority of the populace. There was no snark in your comment. That was pure truth. For me to go from…

Stuff leg deadlifts make the round firm mound. Not sure if you want to replace something fluffy with something firm or just have some size reduction in mind IMO most women don't go for the no-assed look! Ha Good luck with it.

MFP has lots of straight up snarky bad advice mixed in with the good I would suggest joining a few forums, a gym where you have actual workout buddies. I have never had the goofy all calories are the same arguments with other fit athletic people. Take the good and leave the bad.

Not the number MFP calculates It is crazy high I use Garmin VivoActive and had an Edge 500 calorie calculators with a heart rate monitor MFP numbers were over double the Garmin numbers using the same heart rate monitor The MFP numbers were off by enough to stall my weight loss for a bit until I got the Garmin and used…

I lost the majority of my weight on a moderate carb diet doing lots of cycling and some running. As your body gets acclimated to burning a higher percentage of fat, it will be less of a power drop. If you just want to complete the HM, then it isn't that big of a deal. A HM is s 2 hour or less event for most People You…

Cycling You can get a pretty intense workout riding hard

You don't need to refuel unless you do a long workout. Or have not eaten all day, of course, then you just need to eat! Most machines and even MFP is optimistic I use Garmin apps with a HRM. A bit closer VivoActive is what I use now and it is normally 1/3 of MFP cycling and 2/3 of MFP for running based activities. 100…

I have done Recovery Rate cardio when getting over a cold I have also done a leg day workout when recovering and ran myself down and got sick again! Be careful You can often take 4 days off and come back stronger. Rest and recovery is always essential, sick just means you need more.

A decent calorie defecit and any cardio you can enjoy doing will burn off added body fat Just don't eat back calories by the overly optimistic MFP calorie burn numbers They are so wrong you can actually gain weight It is all about the calorie defecit And you have ears you body takes fat for fuel where it wants to Kinda how…

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@SingingSingleTracker Exactly on track OP If you are training there is the need to know you heart rate. There is a different HRM for cycling and running. If you are burning calories and just doing some cardio burn, knowing what you are doing and why you are doing it won't hurt. Knowing which type of fuel your body…

The MFP calorie counts are insanely high I use VivoActive with a heart rate monitor feeding into MFP too. The same bike ride shows 3045 calories on Map My Ride. It is 1278 on Garmin Edge 500 and Vivo Active Eating the correct number of calories burnt is one thing Eating back the bloated massive numbers MFP gives is a good…

4000 a week from 4 bike rides of 1000 calories Eat at close to break even. I like exercising it off more than not exercising and eating less

Probably not Unless you are borderline on protein intake, one workout isn't gonna throw you into a catabolic state

Sub 6 hour Iron Man 70.3 12-13% normal body fat percentage, not just during summer lean out.

I love steel cut oats Put a little coconut oil in them and cinnamon Mmmmmm They are very slow release carbs great for long bike rides