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Honestly, I think this thread has pretty much motivated me to start recording my rides so when I do one day get run over by some careless oaf I can either sue their pants off or at least have plenty of evidence for their vehicular manslaughter case.

You all rock. I think I'm going to try the vaseline first and see if that helps before I go spending too much money. Didn't even know there were entire product lines designed to fight this discomfort so feel much more encouraged now. No more riding my saddle sideways halfway home! My goal is to get back up to real long…

Honestly, didn't even think to search for bike seat on here. I'll take a look, thanks!

So your body has a certain number of calories it needs to keep you alive doing all your daily activity, that would be the TDEE and there are lots of calculators out there to figure it out or MFP gives you a pretty generic one. That number represents your maintenance calories, the number of calories needed to maintain your…

I add a little prepared juice to my frozen stuff. Right now I add about half a cup of carrot juice and a cup of Naked Juice but I plan on just using organic apple juice and the carrot juice in the future. With that I can get a cup of frozen berries a good size banana and about a cup and a half of ice in there to make a 32…

I just exercise as much as I can because I want to get fit and track the calories I eat because I figure if I mostly eat less of them I'll lose weight. On days where I go for hours long bike rides I often add a few hundred extra calories just because that little bump keeps me on the bike longer. My personal opinion is we…

Its a great plan. We all just sort of do the best we can with what we have. The only two big things you might want to add to the workout would be dips (can use a chair or a few books or bed frame) and if you can find a pull up bar to go in a door frame for a few bucks, pull ups. Also get out and walk / run whenever you can…

How many calories are there in a newborn baby dolphin?

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Most annoying moment in the history of any young woman's life: "The Freaking Plug Came Out!"

A True Story I used to commute to and from work in Utah all the time on my bike and one day was taking the right side of the through traffic lane to avoid being in the dedicated right turn lane. Some putz got super mad at me and went all Captain Courageous by rolling down his window and cursing at me until the light…

It's never a little less :smile: You just need to weigh stuff likely. My 1700 a day was about 2300 a day when weighed. From what I understand, I'm not the only one with a bad eye for estimating food weight. Once you know how much you are eating, to lose weight you probably just need to eat a little less.

Not sure if this is relevant but when I was healthy as a kid I was underweight but still had a belly that never wanted to go away. Answer for me was to eat a bit more protein and workout my upper body a bit. I was never able to land a six pack but it got much flatter when my chest and back got a little stronger.

This is probably the one stop shop for everything: http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1080242-a-guide-to-get-you-started-on-your-path-to-sexypants The link in item number one has all the BMi/R/Neat stuff in it.

I hope my libido doesn't get too out of hand, my wife barely puts up with my two girlfriends as it is.

The only real trap is that as others have mentioned part of the loss is gonna be water weight as your body adjusts to new diet and exercise so that may come back or may drop even lower and then come back. The key is to think big picture and appreciate that eating at a deficit and exercising will drop the fat but the scale…

You can do quite a bit with bodyweight exercises. The trend on MFP right now is all about heavy lifting and I'm all for it but for thousands of years before the power cage there were push ups, pull ups, sit ups, dips and squats.

I find if I have snack food like that around it's easier for me to just graze on them or indulge some monetary urge. So far I just eat a meal if I am hungry and since most my meals are 300'ish calories, that's about the same as 6 rice cakes but after I am done I am full and don't feel like I could eat another meal for…

Personally the thing that did the trick for me was as simple as planning my meals out in advance. It sounds painfully easy and it is. I binged when I was hungry and didn't have a plan for solving the problem. Now I eat as much as I want but I eat meals not whatever I can put in my mouth.

The funny thing is here in Minneapolis we have dedicated bike trails that go one for miles with no stop signs or cross traffic... as I ride now I find myself complaining about the rude cyclists that ride slow or two abreast on the bike trails making it more difficult to safely pass them without facing oncoming bike…

In the US, across most all of the country with a few possible local exceptions, bikes are vehicles and belong on the road or in designated bike lanes. Riding on the sidewalk as an adult will just get you a ticket.

The funny thing is, you would probably be sitting in a real traffic jam and not just needing to wait a moment to safely pass if all the bike riders decided to start taking their cars out.

Most of the time when I am out I pedal my electric bike around. When human powered, it's way slower than my normal road bike but I ride it more because it's heavy and slow and thus a better workout. The nice thing with it though is if I need to, I can turn a little handle and get up to 30 mph pretty quick to scoot around…

I don't really count my cardio as anything needing a rest day unless it is something new and the muscles hurt after doing it. The human body is pretty much designed to be in motion, the days we do nothing are probably harder on it than the days we move around in my mind. Weight lifting on the other hand (or any muscle…

Not to keep hitting the nail on the head over and over but the truth is that the problem is not in the drivers or the riders but in the government's failure to adapt the infrastructure to safely support both.

I think it's all just a matter of familiarity. Here in the US most people drive cars two blocks to the gym. In parts of Europe and Asia a lot more people walk and ride bikes. Personally, when I'm on the bike my main concern is to not get run over. I'll ride dead center middle of the lane for as long as needed at whatever…

So prepare for a few different opinions, we all have different things that have worked for us. 1. You will not die. Hydration and some carbs will get you through most any ride as long as you are patient. I'm 250 lbs and went for a 47 mile fun ride yesterday. I would be out again today if it wasn't raining here. 2. I rode a…

I wasn't a calorie counter back then so I mostly just kept track of the stuff I knew had protein in it (i.e. food labels). Never occurred to me to count the protein from an apple... Bananas, broccoli, rice, peas, apples, oranges, bell peppers and TONS of V8. Aside from the can mostly just stuff that I grabbed from the…

No that was when I was in my 20's. Got a job and fat since then. I was 20 grams of protein on about a 1800 - 2000 calorie a day diet which was still calorically deficient for my activity hence the continued weight loss throughout. I guess you could be right in that the it was all just a calorie / fitness thing. I know when…

I was a vegan at the time so fruits and veggies with lots of grains. I ate pretty much all the time because it was a lot of plant stuff. I was running all the time, biking, martial arts six days a week. I don't doubt that in America we eat FAR too much protein but my personal experience suggest to me that it IS possible to…