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Alex, that's impressive. Congratulations. :) Incidentally, a small amount of dark chocolate (about 35 g per day) is apparently good for reducing cholesterol. So if you want to live a little... Redwing, I figure that if you avoid too much saturated fat, refined sugar, processed foods, and...

Steve, perhaps a softer way of making my point is that for a non-competitive athlete (i.e. most people in this thread :)) it's not worth worrying about the small details. (Such as maintaining exact protein / fat / carb ratios or six equally sized meals per day.) The main point is that you...

Steve, I'd expect that you'd lose weight on your diet above. It just wouldn't be very healthy. :) I didn't make my original point particularly well, but I was thinking of macronutrients on a very broad protein / fat / carbohydrate level. If you're exercising hard you need 1 - 2 g of...

The one rule in weight loss is that you have to consume fewer calories than you burn. And provided that you cover your nutritional bases and avoid excessive amounts of saturated fat or sugars then I don't think that meal timings or ratios of macronutrients (fat, protein and carbs) makes a lot of...