DON'T SKIP BREAKFAST!!! You need a decent breakfast, oatmeal with fruit, whatever, to kickstart your metabolism in the morning! I had trouble getting started on the weightloss. I was biking to work, only 12 miles roundtrip, but started adding to the trip home as I worked up to more an more miles. Finally started having breakfast, which I had been skipping for years, and the weight started dropping off much faster. End result: I am 6'1" and average build but used to be a swimmer. I had gotten to 240 lbs when I decided to do something different. Quit the cokes, chips, junk food. Never was much into alcohol anyway. Still took almost 6 months to get down to my current 190 lbs. Feel soooo much better and looking forward to trimming off another 10 to 15 lbs just to get rid of leftover flab. Still working out but back to swimming. It's safer as drivers are so very rude and lethal to bicyclists.