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I mash mine with half carrots (cut smaller than sp as they cook slower), half sp. No butter required.

I have set some PBs running after horrible 12h+ days at work - just tell yourself your mind has had a workout but not your body!

Are you going by a weekly or daily goal? I find it very difficult to keep within my calorie goals on a rest day, but I make up for this by saving some calories on exercise days. Also, how long are you cycling for, and how many calories are you logging for it?

Can you define high? Are you sure you put in your personal details (weight, gender etc.) correctly?

Must be true!

I have gained around 10lbs in a weekend. I did a big bike ride (160 miles) and ate like a pig for the following two days (it was Easter), so I suspect some was muscles retaining water in response to the bike ride, some water weight from all the carbs, and undoubtedly, some proper weight gain. I lost 6lbs in a couple of…

Off topic, but there are several tools online to merge two .tcx etc. files together.

I have a banana and 250ml of semi-skimmed milk as soon as I get in - I find this does a pretty good job of keeping my appetite down for the rest of the day.

From Bristol, live in Cambridge.

Well according to MFP you should have eaten 2664, giving you a net of 1650, so no, 473 is not good, it is too few. That said, it depends on the accuracy of the value of 1014 exercise calories. What exercise did you do and for how long?

Tuna? Doesn't get more convenient than that. If I'm really low on protein I'll mix it into mash potato or cous cous, and have it alongside another piece of protein (last week I had cous cous mixed with tuna with a breaded basa fillet).

If you're really worried about going over calories, don't have a cheat day. But no, timings won't matter. As others have said, have a target for the week (including your cheat day).

You can't.

When you first register with MFP you are asked about your daily activity level: this will affect your daily calorie allowance. You should set it to a setting that best describes your day and this will update your calorie allowance accordingly.

I think the easiest way is with tuna. It's so versatile - last night I had a piece of breaded fish WITH a large can of tuna on rice cakes to get my protein fill. I've also been known to mix it into sweet potato mash. I'm also a big fan of Skyr yoghurts; not huge amounts of protein but if you're having something sweet…

If I want to know calories from running I always use my HRM, or values of cal/km from other similar runs if I wasn't wearing one. That said, I find the runners world calorie calculator to give me the closest estimate of calories burnt: http://www.runnersworld.com/fitness-calculators/calories-burned-calculator# I find this…

I would go with the HRM value - MFP values could be with any bike with any terrain - your HRM gives you a value that's more reflective of the energy you actually used.

Dates in English format :) 1/5: 131 minutes cycling 2/5: Rest (not lazy day :D) 3/5: 10 minutes running + 50 minutes rowing 4/5: 119 minutes cycling + 45 minutes swimming 5/5: 10 minutes running + 54 minutes rowing + 72 more minutes running 6/5: 20 minutes cycling + 49 minutes open water swimming 7/5: 24 minutes running +…

Dates in English format :) 1/5: 131 minutes cycling 2/5: Rest (not lazy day :D) 3/5: 10 minutes running + 50 minutes rowing 4/5: 119 minutes cycling + 45 minutes swimming 5/5: 10 minutes running + 54 minutes rowing + 72 more minutes running 6/5: 20 minutes cycling + 49 minutes open water swimming 7/5: 24 minutes running +…

Cycling. Always.

If you have spotify, this is the playlist I go running/erging to https://open.spotify.com/user/vousden/playlist/6hmfBCIzxiz117SCBswgno

I've made this a few a times and it's been great each time. http://pinchofyum.com/rockin-5-ingredient-sweet-potato-turkey-chili

This was a couple of days ago, pretty sure it's the biggest I've done. Entirely unplanned as ever - all started when my housemate left out some chocolates for everyone. Gained about 1.5lb the next day. My total calories for the day was 6886, with 857 exercise calories.

Do you warm down, or do you go straight from full exertion to stopped? If the latter try working at a much lower intensity at the end of the workout.

Shredded wheat with milk, banana and grapes and an apple. Oh and 5g of Easter egg.

3 months is a long time to wait before adjusting your calorie number if you're losing though!! My problem is that my daily activity levels tend to fluctuate around a bit from month to month, so one maintanance value is likely to serve in perpetuum. I also agree with sijomial's comment that you're likely to be more active…

Yep, the plan is to re-evaluate every 2 weeks.

Thanks for all the input guys, so in the end I decided to use a 14d 'sample period', during this time trendweight estimated that I burned 325 cal/day more than I was eating, and the raw numbers suggest that I lost 2.9lb. My average net calories for this period was 2352 / day. I'm going to be conservative (?) and increase…

I was at around a 550 cal/day deficit. When I was losing trendweight was pretty accurate, although it tended to have a greater calorie deficit than MFP, although not by much. I'm also a fair bit more active at work at the moment so I suspect that's playing a factor in the weight loss. I think I'm just being super paranoid…

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear, what I mean is, how long should you wait before changing your calorie goal? Obviously weight loss/gain over 2d is most likely water weight, and a month is too long, so how long should I wait before changing my calorie intake?