Quote Originally Posted by indysteel View Post
Does that mean you can eat a bit more ice cream?

Just kidding. Sounds like a very helpful process. I'm looking forward to hearing whether the adjustment helps.
It sounds like more Greek food to me

I've been told this before by sports nutritionists, but was scared off whenever I immediately gained weight She did get me to promise to try this for 6 weeks to allow my body a chance to adjust to having more fuel... We will see if this helps me with my body fat percentage - it should. It stands to reason if my body finally has enough fuel for my activity level that it should become more willing to burn body fat. Thankfully this particular sports nutritionist also counsels diabetics so that helps my confidence level.

Quote Originally Posted by Becky View Post
Can you expand upon this a bit, particularly the bit about not counting on-bike and post-bike calories? Thanks!
Becky, I've been on a quite strict diet for several years now, and it was stricter at one time. As someone who did have type 2 diabetes I always struggled with what to do with my calories on long ride days - I've been known to burn well over 2,000 calories on the bike or more (though not recently) and I came up with an approach that worked well to fuel me on the bike on those really long efforts without bonking, and of course there is a need for significant post-ride fueling as well.

I DO actually track these calories as well, but they don't enter into my daily allotment. They get burned too quickly to have time to become fat anyway I have always had problems with low blood sugar as well, outside of the diabetes, and this approach has seemed to take care of the problem. I still struggle with getting enough on the bike for my long rides - but I suspect this is always a moving target.

Does this help? I don't do much different for rides <1.5 hours.