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OMG, so glad to have found other bikers. My husband and I are training for a 2016 cross country ride from California to Maine. We do between 12 and 20 miles during the week and longer runs on the weekends. We have done one Century ride early on in our biking career, took us four days to recover, LOL. Love biking so much!!…
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Have ACL injury in knee, torn/shattered meniscus, if I walk on treadmill, my knee blows up like a watermelon (as it did last night when I gave it another try). I wear a full leg knee brace. I have heart issues and just came off a 30 day heart monitor that I had to drag around with me everywhere. BIKE BIKE BIKE BIKE.....You…
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CONGRATUALTIONS!! YOU HIT A PLATEAU. wow, you should be so happy. A plateau, in someone who is being very careful to calculate their exercise, weigh their food, and log ALL their food, just means that your body has hit a time that it is about to "reset" to a higher metabolic rate. This can take as few as a few weeks and as…
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Hello, and you are welcomed here at MFP. Just wanted to ask if you have tried biking as an alternative to jogging/running. Burns great amount of calories (more than most other exercise if you get your speed up), you get to sit on your butt to exercise, and your environment changes fast enough you might not be so bored. Try…
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See a lot people saying that they have tried before and had a hard time dieting. I lost 101 pounds in 7 months on the LCHF diet. Got in an accident and was in wheelchair over three years. Getting it back together now, and have dropped 18.8 pounds since May 1. I know a lot of people gasp at the LCHF diet and say that it is…
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Naw, the best thing to start with is a bicycle. Compare the calories burned biking to the calories burned in any other exercise. You get to sit on your butt and work out, the wind keeps you cool (most days), and most likely you will find someone close that will see you riding and want to ride with you.....maybe even your…
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Motivation comes from within. It will happened for you when you no longer have that voice in the back of your head that says...."MAYBE I will make it this time". When that voice is gone, and the total decision is to do this, then you will have your own motivation....which is the only kind that works. We here can support…
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I weigh 260 pounds, will do a 20 miles bicycle ride ae approximately 16 to 17 mph (measured with bike odometer that gives current and average speed as well as time of ride) and I am crawling all over a trailer today (about 6 hours) hand scrubbing rust off the underneath of a trailer with a wire brush and painting it (I…
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I know when you are as heavy as we both are (100+ pounds to lose), we don't want to hear that 2 lbs. is a good rate. We want it to fly off and never come back. I am just now coming off a 2 week stall. I gained and lost the same 1.8 - 2.0 pounds so many times I was getting dizzy going up and down. I wanted to give up. I was…
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Cut out all junk food. ALL OF IT. Cut out all sugar except from fruit and keep that down (eat anything that ends in the word "berry" and some melons and read ALL labels in the store to avoid hidden sugar: corn syrup, cane sugar, erythritol, etc...). Look carefully at all condiments for sugar content and switch from…
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Wow....this sounds like me. My husband said I had to share that with you. LOL
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Did you know that at 145 pounds, if you rode a bike for 45 minutes at 16 mph, you could burn almost 600 calories.....and you get to sit in your butt. I hate gyms, also. Love biking.
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First......DON'T GO ON A DIET!!!!!.....Sounds as if you have been struggling with weight issues for some time? If that is the case, do you think that one day you will hit your goal weight and all those weight issues will magically disappear? We have all fallen into "diet despair". Don't see this time as going on a diet,…
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If you are incredibly incredibly motivated, then eat a normal amount of food and increase your exercise. Go insane with the exercise and eat your 2000 calories each day. I bike, so I burn 1500+ calories in 80 minutes of cycling at 16MPH. Today, I ate just over 1650 calories. I was never hungry all day, and I split those…
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YOU HIT THAT ONE SQUARE ON THE NOSE. Got into a one week stall, was working out excessively (burning 1000+ calories in workouts alone, 6 + days per week) and the scale stopped dead. Took one day off, fed my body, and dropped 1.2 pounds instantly.
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1200 calories sounds very low to me, also. In 2007, I lost 101 pounds in 7 months and then had an accident that put me in a wheelchair for 3 and a half years. Here came the weight again. I was hemiplegic, so I could not move much. Got better and took 70 of the pounds off in just 5 months. Then, another mishap. I could not…
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Hello: Skip the gym, skip the pencil thin dead head blondes at the gym (no offense to anyone, that is just how they are at the gym I used to go to), and get a bike. I am now 261 pounds. I was 278 pounds just 15 days ago (lost 17 pounds in 15 days). I used to do the "gym thing", but I just could not keep doing it day after…
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I bike 6 days a week, 11.5 miles per day at 15 mph. I too had a difficult time with cramping, especially in my legs. I am on LCHF diet and that is inherently a diuretic. It was suggested I take a medium dose magnesium supplement in the morning and make sure to get my 8 - 10 glasses of fresh water (not water with drink…
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Lost 101 pounds in 7 months back in 2007. Had an accident and was wheelchair ridden for three and a half years. Back on my feet now and here we go again. Got 103 pounds to lose. So, we can all pray, laugh, cry, complain, and wine together. I'm in because I know it only works with friends helping out.
