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2000 calories sounds about right on exercise days - 1400 base to lose 1lb or so per week, then eat back your exercise on top. Any less food and you'll damage your metabolism. So I don't think it's eating too much or not exercising enough. Is it what you eat? 1400 or 2000 cal of whole foods, fresh veg & home cooked protein…
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Looking at your diary... Re. rates of weight loss, not all calories are created equal. 100 extra calories of broccoli never made anybody fat, but 100 cals of chocolate might just stick. It's basically about how fast your body can digest the food down into sugar, and the resulting spike in insulin this generates. The more…
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If you do 20 miles several times a week I'd be quite surprised if 35 miles was any kind of a stretch to be honest. I normally do 12-15 miles a day (on a road bike, fairly fast), and find when I double this 25-30 miles on a Saturday that there was essentially no noticeable difference and I don't get tired at all. Ride as…
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Rates of weightloss depend on your starting point. Now you're slimmer, 2lb/week isn't really realistic - 1lb/week or 0.5lb/week are more sensible to aim for. Slow and steady gives you a better shot at actually achieving the goals healthily - at your current weight, 2lb/week is only doable by basically starving yourself and…
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1. Run a 5k at 10km/h, then work that up to 10k distance. 2. Weight down to 140lb, then 135lb. Started at all of about 147lb so this isn't much compared to everyone else, but it's still feels daunting for me. 135lb is the lightest I've ever been, at a time when I was working out a LOT and not eating very much. I'm not…
