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Your BMI is in the healthy range. You have highish BF% for your gender and age. I'd focus on eating and sleeping well and doing some lifting if you want to drop BF%. Healthy habits are going to pay more dividends than calorie counting

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If you want full function GPS as well as tracking, you can pair an Garmin HRM chest strap with a Garmin handheld GPS (like a 64st) and upload the data file to Garmin Connect - this can be set up to read across to MFP I use a Forerunner 230 for my running and don't bother setting it up for walks - the step counter seems to…

HM training plan calls for 10mile run with some speed work - normally do long run on Sunday. Will do it while turkey is cooking and before guests arrive

You shouldn't be in constant pain. Combined with guilt over not exercising and what sounds like binging sound like ED territory. I don't see the point of exercise without a goal in mind. If you set a concrete goal (a race of some kind I'd suggest) and follow a programme to achieve the goal, hopefully your relationship with…

Agree. I used to get DOMS quite bad when training in an unstructured way i.e . I was not doing enough easy but never able to do quality hard sessions Since I've adopted the 80/20 easy/hard approach I don't suffer as much. I think there is a breakthrough point when you get to a certain level of activity where it just…

I'm lucky to be able to 'get hold of' pheasant, partridge, wild duck and geese, hare, rabbit, pigeon etc. All fantastic sources of protein plus filling and delicious.

Do this I suspect your racing weight will be sub 180lb. Even that's bit on the big side to win bike races.

Sensible way to go is keep doing 5k twice a week and a long run. Add another 500m - 1k to your long run every week 10k in 5 - 10 weeks - just go slow

Mine only started to disappear when I got to 14% BF

Mine only started to shrink when I got below 15% body fat I think for most of us the fat is thickest around the waist so, although we are probably losing fat evenly, it seems to be belly and love handles that take longest to go

Most of my morning runs are done after a gulp of water as I am in a hurry and haven't got time to let food go down. I feel more mentally ready to go if I don't delay I've maintained lean body mass and dropped 12kg and 8% BF in 6 months. I don't think it has done any harm but attribute my losses (or gains depending on how…

Couldn't agree more. If you don't fuel your muscles you'll burn out or exercise less effectively. I eat back my exercise cals as carbs and would struggle to reach fitness goals if I didn't. 200 cal for half an hour on a elliptical sounds about right to me Try knocking out 400 cal in half an hour on a rowing ergometer…

I hadn't given this a thought. I tend to use the database rather than adding manually. I know it's not 100% accurate but I've been losing fine. Although the chemical composition of fibre is carbohydrate, it is mostly cellulose and indigestible. So the British way seems to make sense to me from a biological point of view.…

I search on database for e.g. 'carrots 100g' and that usually brings up an option with 100g

Take a look at any serious training programme whether it's strength or endurance training and rest is built in. Not necessarily rest days but much lower intensity or switched between upper and lower body. Training is Stress -> adaptation -> performance gain Adaptation requires rest and nutrition. If you train too hard you…

The running chest strap has an accelerometer which measures running dynamics like bounce, ground contact time, stride length - not sure what I would do with this information - only available on the top end watches

I couldn't get the ANT+ chest strap from my Edge 500 to pair with my 230. Don't know why maybe the battery is a but low but it works OK with the Edge. I had a hunch it wasn't going to work so I was glad I ordered with chest strap. I got 230 because I wasn't satisfied that wrist based HRM was worth the extra (also take…

Most studies are concluding that exercise alone doesn't help most people lose weight As said above it's because 1) The body is annoyingly efficient and only fairly fit people will be able to burn 300 calories in 1/2 hour. Example - yesterday I rode my bike for 4 hours - In my head this is at least 2000cal, my Garmin said…

Id be inclined to do a slow 30 minute run and if it goes OK then do the bridge to 10k Loads of help Here British NHS site but very international you'll be welcome

So it is Presumably the alcohol evaporates when it is baked at 400 degrees and is not consumed

Yeast is using aerobic respiration when bread making so it doesn't make alcohol. It can convert the starch in flour to glucose. I appreciate it's only marginal but was curious - Thanks