UncleRiotous

I struggle with this one. My weight loss was great and I was doing that and then I plateaued. What I've been doing the last week or two is eating between 1200 and 1500 but not eating back exercise (about 1200-1400 calories a day). I was expecting to only do it for a couple of days because I thought I'd run out of energy on…

You never regret the workout that you do but you rarely want to do the workout before you've started.

I ride for about 60-90 mins a day most days and I started to find I was getting cramp in my calves on occasion. I'm now having a banana after a serious ride (unless I'm going to eat dinner shortly after I finish) and increasing the salt in what I eat on days when I know I'm going to be sweating hard. Since I started doing…

The problem is that how many calories you burn depends on all sorts of things including your metabolism, how fit you are and for walking and cycling how far you go and how high you climb. A heart rate monitor SHOULD be more accurate and I find that for the exercise I do (90% cycling) normally MFPs estimate is lower than…

A lot of the current research on diet shows that sugar (rather than fat) is the big problem with weight gain largely because it spikes your insulin levels and that makes you feel hungry which sets up a vicious spiral where you eat something sweet and end up craving more sweet stuff. I don't think anyone has done a serious…

I think it depends on how much exercise you're doing, how often and how many calories you're burning as well as obviously what your daily goal is without exercise. On days that I commute by bike I burn 5-600 calories each way and I don't feel the need to eat them back. That said if I'm likely to be riding for more than…

If you can find a way to check out the Hairy Dieters it's brilliant (a BBC series where cooks the Hairy Bikers lost about 42lb each in three months without eating boring grub). They've got various recipes online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/programmes/p00vq8c6

I'm guessing you're doing a two day a week fast. I think one of the key questions is are you doing a full fast or a partial fast (500 cal a day)? The other question I'd ask is how much exercise are you doing and how often? If you're doing a couple of hundred cal of exercise then I probably wouldn't worry too much, if…

Five years ago I lost about 85 lbs and just wanted to put a note of encouragement in. I went from couch potato to being a fairly serious cyclist at the same time and on every single level of my life I feel hugely better without the weight. Good luck and good on you for going for it.