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I'm 40. Can hold 180 bpm for about an hour. Can't get much higher than that regardless. Apparently max is 195, but I'll only hit it a couple times a year - recently did a 2 min effort averaging 160% of ftp, it stuck right tight to 180, 181. Threshold set by training peaks using coggin (5).

According to my power meter/Garmin, my 50 min spin this AM burned 443 cal. My normalized power was 159 watts, my average power was 154 watts and my average hr was 130 bpm. It was a fairly steady effort (no intervals). That said, stationary bike power accuracy is apparently quite poor from what I've read. I would take that…

I LOVE my treadmill. Its a BH S5TI or something similar. I use it with a foot pod and Zwift... it's fun as hell and I hate running.

Now: Lose ~1lb/week through May. (18# total, 20 weeks, ~155 target) Jan: Hit 30+ hours of cycling. Feb: Hit 35+ hours of cycling. Black belt in TKD. March: Hit 45+ hours of cycling. April: Get in some nice long weekend rides. Hit 50+ hours of cycling per month now through August. May: Be ~155# 12hrs @ Mesa Verde - keep my…

Today's ride in calories, MFP vs a powertap (thingy that measures watts at the rear hub). 324 minutes total, 90.9 miles, 17.7mph average MFP calories - 4840 Powertap calories - 2697 I generally eat all the calories back that my power tap says I burn... because it's an actual measurement of work performed. If I went by MFP,…

Sometimes I simply don't know what I should even eat... or how much. Rode the bike for 5.5 hrs today... had a pound of pasta salad, 2 lb pork tenderloin, a hefty sweet potato... still need to eat 1200-1500 calories... but of what, I have no idea. I have a case of Guinness in the garage, kind've want to drink the calories.…

There are many, but essentially three types of road style bike. One is racing (shorter head tube) another is comfort/endurance (tall, sometimes very tall head tubes).The third, a touring bike could be good too, but (in my mind at least) they are built slightly heavier for panniers, and make some geometry sacrifices for…

My point is the relevance of the 220... the figure literally means nothing and there is no real reason to even have the number there. Is there a good reason or are you just literally pointing out anything but the topic of thread?

Clearly.

ugh. Joshua McAllister quotes: "Look I'm not sure what has rattled your cage, but it seems something has." - baseless comment "Of course its working for you now, you are under eating so of course you will be loosing weight." -comment w/o any supporting/factual info. " by burning 1000 of daily intake is putting yourself at…

OK, that makes sense. Trying to wrap my melon around why that number is even relevant. I don't see how it adds any insight or value.

Between MFP, Strava, Garmin and my power meter, figures for ONE EXERCISE varied by over 1K calories and you think it's possible to run a deficit for an entire week of 1750 cal? Even if I knew exactly the number of calories I was consuming per day... IMPOSSIBRU.

That's not true. You do know my stats because I shared them. Also, as you put it, "of course it's working for you. You are under eating so of course you'll be losing weight." Huh? *rolls eyes* How do you know I'm under eating. You saw one screenshot after one meal. You've jumped to so many conclusions you tripped and fell…

.5 lbs per week would mean managing to a deficit of 1750 calories or 250 cal per day based on a bunch of estimates of physical activity, calories burned, consumed, etc. Even if I had the rigor required to do that, I wouldn't have the data. Great suggestion. IMPOSSIBLE to execute.

You seem fixated on a number that has no context. Never actually had a day where I ate 1300 cal. Said differently... I eat 1500 cal per day but only consume 80% of my exercise calories. How is that different if I end up getting to the same number? ..

The way I am managing it is working for me right now. In the past I would often eat for workouts that never occurred. It was... problematic. At this point I am averaging 1lb per week in weight loss. Adding back 500 cal will erase any progress. I still have 20 lbs to go in order to reach my target weight. I work at home and…

Thanks for the info... btw, I eat 100% of my calories back (always) so I'll do close to 2300-2500 cal today. I average a hair over 2k per day. Mfp set my goal. 5'6", sedentary (work from home, less than 2k steps per day...). I've been doing 1.3k per day + 100% of burned calories since December (when I was over 200 lbs) w/…

I lost 35 lbs on diet alone (nearly). When I began working out, I found that I had a much lower calorie deficit if I wanted an effective workout (keep effort/power levels up). If I did work out at a deficit, I had a ravaging hunger that I wouldn't have been able to deal with for long OR I couldn't reproduce efforts I knew…

I bought one because it was important for me to quantify how little I actually do. I work from home and aside from taking the kid to school, I'm sleeping or sitting for 20+ of 24 hours. It was interesting to learn that many days I take less than 2K steps. As far as 'fitness tracking'... I've got different tools I prefer…

It depends. I was eating 100% of my calories burned back but I was on a very low calorie diet due to the fact that I work from home and am sedentary 22 of 24 hours of the day. Over time, I increased my baseline calories by 150 per day and reduced the % that I ate back to around 60%. In the beginning I had about 50lbs to…

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Good Job. I did a nearly dry Jan - brought on by weight loss motivations. I wasn't super motivated to cut it out entirely as much as I was looking for a reduction. It was an easy way to cut out 1600 calories a week and accounts for nearly 2 pounds of my weight loss. Never looked at it that way until I started counting.

I'm not sure I understand. You mean to tell me that you don't eat before exercising on purpose? Sounds gimmicky... like vegetarians. Or NA beer. I like to workout on at least 250 calories in my stomach and will consume about 200 calories per hour of workout (while cycling). If I don't keep the calories coming in, I don't…

I don't remember specifics. I was riding 4-5 days a week, 40-60 a day and racing MTB every other weekend. My HRM indicated that I was burning through a ton of calories and I *think* I was eating 75% back plus my 2K calorie diet. Oatmeal, fruit and nuts for breakfast, probably a +/-1K calorie lunch and then another 1K+…

I have no advice to offer... but your effort sounds similar to what I've gone through in the past. Below is from a cycling perspective... rocks swim better than I... running? not even sure what that is. At 5'6" my BMI said that I was overweight at 160. I desperately wanted to get down to 145-150 which was high on the…

The lowest weight in my range of "happy weight" is still "over weight" when I calculate on BMI so I take that recommendation with a grain of salt. Once I got down to the high 140's... which BMI says is the high end of my "Normal" weight... I felt fine but was lethargic/non-competitive on the bike. Went to the Dr. and asked…

Ugh. Vegetables. Yuck. Don't eat them... way less hassle. ...and if you feel like you must use them, they should be a garnish on bloody mary's. *only trying to be funny because there is nothing more that needs to be said that hasn't been said already.

Wake up at 6am, grab a big cup of coffee and hit the bike hard for 20-30 minutes on an empty stomach. 10 minute soft pedal, a quick shower and a shot of whiskey will start the day off right EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. Can't drink all day unless you start in the morning.

I didn't start losing weight until I started using MFP. Last 2.5 weeks of Nov I walked over 80 miles while hunting and ended up gaining 10 pounds (and it wasn't a good 10 lbs). I was shocked. It was definitely not how I wanted to kick things off. I thought about getting serious when I got back home in December. A month of…