Originally Posted by
Menel
I don't eat junk food. I'm not trying to find "rewards".
I'm trying to find the right balance properly fueling my body, so I can continue training on consecutive days and not send my body into starvation mode. And avoid over fueling, and still maintain a calorie deficit.
One advantage of cycling vs running, if you have sufficient time, is that you can burn a lot of calories from fat that don't need replacing in order to train the next day. With running you're much more likely to deplete your glycogen stores and these will need to be replaced. But if you cycle for 3-4 hrs at a moderate pace it's much easier to maintain a substantial caloric deficit while still being able to train on consecutive days. This assumes your primary interest is in dropping weight vs getting faster.