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Anyone lost weight doing COUCH to 5K??

AmandasJourney2012
AmandasJourney2012 Posts: 50
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Would love to hear if anyone has had success losing weight doing couch to 5k? :)

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  • Jomalone2
    Jomalone2 Posts: 129 Member
    I started C25K in July. My doctor told me in August that I wouldn't see results until I started actually running 5ks consistently. He was right. I ran my first one in September and have run about 7 total now. I started seeing the weight come off when I started running them consistently. I started slacking up after Christmas and the weight stopped coming off so I'm trying to kick it back into gear and make myself run at least one real race a month and train more consistently.
  • wocm15
    wocm15 Posts: 81
    Nope! Agree with the above poster's doctor. There really isn't enough running in the beginning/mid part of the program to burn enough calories to lose weight. But now that I am able to run (thanks to C25K) and am training for a half marathon, I am burning 700 - 1,4000 calories on my long runs!
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