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You must get out of the mind set that you are doing something "wrong". Using an exercise bicycle is only superficially similar to riding a real bicycle outdoors. There is nothing wrong with that - they are just different. There is no way anybody setting up the resistance on an excercise bicycle can know how you actually…

Don't forget that this resistant starch will ferment actively in your colon. Prepare for lots of farting! :-)

Could you not find a gym buddy? Nothing like a bit of camraderie to keep you going.

I say throw your "intelligent" scale in a skip. Keep to your diet and exercise and your body fat will look after itself.

The time you spend eating less and doing more exercise :-D

Not sure about the veg, but cooked rice and beans are absolute heaven for food bugs. The length of time they stay safe to eat is highly dependent on how quickly you got them into fridge after you cooked them, so as a rule of thumb I'd try to eat them within a day or two, three max, or freeze them instead. It is very…

I generally have one day a week of doing absolutely nothing more than a casual stroll, even if I feel like doing something. I don't do Yoga so I can't comment but I find the (arguably) similar Pilates certainly isn't rest, as the idea is to work muscles until they fatigue. You might feel you don't need it at the time but…

Yes, it sounds to me like your body is trying to tell you something and you need a bit of a diet holiday. Feed yourself up a for a few days and take a couple of days off exercise - I find it's a bit like a reset button. Your weight will jump alarmingly as your gut fills and glycogen levels go up, but it will disappear…

You've got motivation (get healthy or age horribly), it's that Will Power guy letting you down. Scientific experiments have actually confirm that we have a finite amount of that; no surprise there! So my routine is to make sure flaky Mr Power comes into it as little as possible. I don't go shopping hungry. I don't keep…

Drink what you like best! If it really is an occasional night out and the diet can go hang. Enjoy it!

If you log exercise, you are allowed to eat extra calories to compensate. The goal is the amount you are allowed to eat that day without extra exercise. The net calories are the calories you have actually eaten minus the extra calories you used doing exercise, currently 1710 calories per day. You have eaten 487 calories of…

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If you were told to eat a specific amount of fruit in particular, then eat it and don't worry. On the other hand, if you were given general advice to increase the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables in general, I think the guidance is that two portions of fruit as part of your 5 per day is best. It's OK to eat lots of…

1. You will lose weight if calories in is less than calories out. You can't deny the laws of physics. 2. It is laughably easy to invent a diet regime that offers fewer calories than you need. That is why almost all diets will cause you to lose weight, even the shocking ones, if you can stick to them. The trick is to find…

MFP has me on 1200 calories a day - I only have 7lb left to lose. I can do this for a day or two, then even the furniture starts to look delicious. I get around it by earning exercise calories to bring it up to 1600 calories per day. I'm just fine on that, with the occasional diet holiday when I've got sick of…

There are no benefits if you hate it. I don't mind getting up early and I tried 6 am swimming but I was always so hungry (I wasn't going to get up at 4:30 so I could eat), I hated it, whereas I look forward to my afternoon swim. The truth is, most people are at their lowest energy first thing in the morning and there is no…

Eat real food, especially vegetables. Not weird powdered meal substitutes, overpriced diet biscuits (even if they are called 'protein bars') or low cal versions of highly processed food you shouldn't be eating in the first place. Unless you want to be eating that shi... er, stuff for the rest of your life. You'll save…

That 'get started guide' is very good. I would also suggest that you view this as the start of the rest of your life. It took you a while to get where you are, so be prepared to spend a while getting to where you want to go next and not expect a quick fix. I find the MFP calorie calculator and food logging diary to be…

I agree with Maxematics; unless you are diligently weighing everything, you probably are eating more than you think. As for 2000 calories, the only way to find out for certain is to do it and a gradual increase might be the way to go. You are almost certain to gain a pound or two of non-fat weight, but that should level…

In theory it doesn't matter what you eat as long as you maintain a calorie deficit. But some foods make it harder to do that. Personally I found that eating sweets not only ate up my calorie allowance, it made me crave more sweets. But other people seem to manage with a small treats. Try it out - you'll soon find out which…

I second a bowl of soup - easy to make in advance. Or a big plate of steamed vegetables with an egg or some grated cheese on top.

I think the current thinking is that a day or two of VLC dieting (aka 'fasting') won't do any harm and may indeed be beneficial (Check out the 5/2 diet if you like that kind of thing), but that's not the same as trying to lose a lb per day. If you want to know what a daily 3500 calorie deficit feels like, I guess you could…

According to Wikipedia, the definition of food is something that when eaten, provides sustenance, vitamins and/or minerals. So I guess calorie free vitamin pills would count. Not very filling though :-) There are other things that would supply no calories that technically you could eat without harm (gold, sawdust, fur) but…

I'd go with a small bag of dried fruit and nuts. Cheap and easy to eat at the wheel, and very satisfying, but make sure you have a weighed portion, not a big bag! The problem with sweet carb only snacks based on fruit or grains is that you feel just as hungry after you've eaten them. Well, I do anyway! Ideally you want to…

I hear you! I once read somewhere a comment to the effect that most of the symptoms of aging were down to down to reduced activity. Reduced activity seems rarely to be accompanied by reduced eating so obesity is the inevitable result. Given that there is a direct correlation between overweight and a myriad of complaints…

As far as I know, there is no scientific consensus on what constitutes excess protein in the diet, although it's accepted now that too much red and processed meat is bad, which is not the same thing at all. Eggs and fish are good if you want to avoid meat. Removing all animal protein from what sounds like a healthy diet…