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https://www.runnersworld.com/tools/calories-burned-calculator Try using this calculator. It won't be 100% accurate, but if you start by eating back 50%-75% of your calories, you can adjust that % according to how the weight comes off.

You don't say if you're male/female, weight, etc., but in any case you won't be burning 500-600 calories with your 50-60 minute routine. I ran 55 minutes this evening and burned about 350 (5'6 woman, 160lbs). Weight training burns significantly less. If you're losing at about 1lb/week, keep doing what you're doing. If…

Soya mince, beans, pulses. I love all the beans- and they go with everything (almost).

Did you build up to 5 miles, 6 days a week? If not, please cut back and start building up slowly! You're at high risk of an overuse injury. If you did build up, then I would recommend looking into a proper running programme rather than just running 5 miles every day. It wont effect your weight, but it will improve your…

How much of your cardio is running, and how many miles are you running a week? It's not massively relevant to your weight gain, I would just be concerned about injury risk (which is obviously very relevant to keeping weight off). I understand wanting to exercise more than is strictly necessary for weight loss- I am a…

I'm a bean and pulses loving vegan. Relatively easy to get my protein targets with those bad boys, and not a crazy expensive way to go about it. I do jeffin' love beans, though :p I I don't tend to use nuts that much as they contain so much fat, and I find them way too moorish.

By the way, why are you doing 2-3 hours of cardio a day? If it's because you're involved in a low impact sport you love, then fine (although that sounds like an unsustainably intense regime if you only started training in the last 12 months?), but you really don't need to be doing that amount of cardio if it's just for the…

So before Saturday, everything was going fine? If that's the case, don't worry. You can't have gained 9lbs in fat since Saturday. Worry about it if the trend continues to go up over the next few weeks (or if you start to feel unwell, of course, in which case see a Dr). My weight fluctuates by about 5lbs day to day (which…

What's your activity level set at (sedentary, etc)? I am assuming that you're down as sedentary or lightly active. I'm around the same weight and height as you, and I'm set to los -1lb a week. I think I gives me about 1600kcal. The people saying "that isn't enough" probably aren't taking into account the fact that five…

"Time of month/time of the month" I thought it meant "theory of mind" for a long time and couldn't understand!! Ahah. Don't sweat it, you won't have gained fat eating 1350/day. Weight fluctuates a lot, especially for women (for reasons you suggest and have already been mentioned). Obviously if you are usually very regular…

How long have you been losing for? It took me 4 weeks to notice a difference, and I can only see it on my shoulders and upper back. But my BF is down 5% (caliper tested every 4 weeks) and other people insist my torso looks slimmer. Pictures and measurements are very useful- especially if you are doing any work in the gym,…

I am assuming the OP has done her race now. I think we are probably opposite sides of the world, though, so I can't figure out the time difference...hope it went well!!

Check out the Veganuary website. I've been vegan for 10 years (which is all my adult life). I can't help with recipes very much...I cook to my own taste...but my taste is not quite the same as most peoples (I just mix whatever I need up that vaguely goes, and then make it spicy AF)! A good way to go about making the…

Why do you think you're struggling to get enough calories in? I'm vegan, but can't really think of an answer as I can't see the connection between struggling to eat enough and veggie/vegan...have you switched recently and are struggling to think of alternative meals?

Perfectly possible. 1-2lbs of that could be fat (depending how much you have to lose). My weight can fluctuate 4-6lbs in a day (and Im a healthy weight). When you change your diet you'll often lose water weight. And if youre eating a little less, youll have less food passing through you at any time, too. Your scales might…

Okay, half way sounds like a good time to take some carbs, if that's when you would have taken them before too. Just watch out for gut rot....personally I would rather bonk than have the runs, if the race were a little shorter, but if you might be out for an hour or longer feeling like rubbish, then it's probably worth the…

Agreed. I've just started working with a PT. I have read books, and watched hundreds of hours of youtube content on powerlifting, olympic lifting, and bodybuilding/general strength training. None of that is as useful as having immediate feedback on your form. Knowing you should keep a neutral spine is different to knowing…

See a sports physio/muscoskeletal specialist and get their opinion and advice :)

How long are you expecting to take to finish, roughly?

If you have only lost 1lb of fat (which is great, given your goals and everything by the sounds of it)...then don't assume the other 2lbs are muscle. Your body isn't just fat and muscle. Sounds like we have similar schedules (except I am running a bit more as I was already doing that) and eat similar calories most days…

Is there a particular reason you want to do the 20 mile race? I know you said you don't want to get lost/bored/lonely on your own, but you will need to be running that sort of distance closer to the time of your marathon for multiple weeks in a row anyway...so you will still fact the exact same problem(s). I would…

Eat them back. If you have 20kg to lose and are eating 1200 normally, then you will still lose eating 1500 even if you have overestimated the amount of calories you've burned, to be honest, as that's a very low number. You're effectively only eating 900kcal if you don't eat them back, which isn't sustainble or enough to…

What's your goal? There will be some variation based upon the objective of the training- different sports place different demands on your core and abs.

If it's only once a month, then do whatever is sustainable. Anything at or below maintenance is still in the right direction. No point being any more miserable than bleeding for days on makes you already. My current period is on week 6 (!) so I am sticking to my deficit... :(

T Might be more to do with the fact that 10lbs from a 180lb body represents a larger % of body weight than 10lbs off of 230lbs. Someone could lose 20% of their mass at 140lbs (28lbs) and would look drastically different at 112lbs, but someone who loses 28lbs from being 250lbs won't look as obviously different. That's my…

If I understand correctly, this only happens if you're restricting your calories? If so...don't restrict them. You can afford to eat at maintenance for 2-3 days a month. If it's happening regardless, although the diet seems to be making it worse, then definitely go back to the doctor (ideally another one) because what you…

What time do you exercise, and what time do you get hungry? On Sundays I do my long run which is 2-3 hours. I tend to eat quite minimally all day, and save most of my calories for the evening. It seems to catch up with me then. If I ate a larger lunch after running (when I don't have much of an appetite anyway), it doesn't…

I think the database isn't inaccurate. Mine rarely comes in over 1g. Some days that might be right, if I'm only eating fruit and veg then I don't imagine there's a lot of sodium in those?...But today I've eaten bread twice and it says there's no sodium in the bread I ate! I would check the packing of food you're eating, to…

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892765/ This is an interesting article on sugar-cravings and sweeteners (like those in diet sodas). Obviously if you do crave sugar, and eat sweet foods, it's still okay if you keep your calorie deficit, but it's something to bear in mind.

I got seriously addicted to diet drinks (dr pepper zero, and then I transferred over to pepsi max). I have no idea exactly what caused it, but the withdrawal when I stopped was horrific. I had to wean myself off in the end. I was drinking absolutely litres of the stuff, though. So, they're delicious, go for it, but don't…