Running Won't Help You Lose Weight?

I don't see how anyone could possibly argue that burning calories, in any manner, would not help you lose weight.

This.

running is one way to burn some calories. Other prefer, HIIT like...making waffles and stuff.

Running is amazing...period. It helps shape your body, makes you feel awesome and aides in weight loss. Of course eating at a deficit makes you lose weight but combined with running yields great results. Plus, it is a must if you intend on surviving a zombie apocalypse. :glasses:

Number 1 Rule of Zombie Survival? CARDIO!

Never understood the whole Zombie thing. One Nuke would end it all.

Yep & kinda everyone that is a survivor.

I can't say anything about running since my bad knee restricts me to low impact exercise BUT regarding exercise in general, all I can say is my own experience: with casual diet control and no exercise, I lost 23 lbs in 2 years. When I added exercise and got more disciplined about my diet, I lost 23 lbs. in the first 2 months. Yes, of course some of the early stuff was water weight, nonetheless, in my experience, sure you CAN lose without exercise, but it sure as heck takes a whole lot longer. And in a strange way, going to all that work to force myself to exercise in spite of my lifelong aversion, motivates me to stick more closely to healthy eating so I don't sabotage all that extra effort with the part that is easy, fun and yummy! )

Exercise in conjunction with a healthy diet does help you loose weight, you need to expend the calories you put in
You don't have to do fantastic amounts of exercise, if your normally the sedentary type a good brisk walk to the shops will help, leave the car at home, if your more active a power walk.................its not all about getting sweaty at the gym.
I'm no gym bunny but I do enjoy walking I take my backpack with water, fruit and a couple of biscuits and go and explore my local countryside....enjoyable.
By doing something you enjoy your more likely keep it up

Running absolutely factored into my weight loss. I have a hard time meeting my calorie goals without it. I'm usually a couple hundred over, which I can easily take care of with a jog. It's helped my stay in shape and not feel deprived.

i lost loads of weight with running and watching what i ate. Probably lost too much weight.

Running won't help you lose weight. Running helps make you awesome!

this!!!

Running will "help" you lose weight if you do it right, it won't magically lose weight for you. Use it to help create a calorie deficit to achieve your goals and you can't go wrong.

You do have to be totally honest with yourself though - running is perhaps more prone than many other cardio activities to adaptation. Your body quickly becomes very efficient at doing the same, so you have to keep challenging yourself, or prepare to make an adjustment to your burn, however calculated (even an HRM burn is a best guess based on maths).

Anecdotally, not all miles burn the same. Based on observations from myself and friends, you won't burn twice as many calories on a 10-mile run as you would have burned on two separate five-mile runs. I imagine this is because your body uses different energy release mechanisms the longer you make it go. This is affected by how you fuel on the ruin too.

I wish I'd been on MFP when I was training for my first marathon - I was still maintaining or gaining despite five-hour long runs at weekend. I know now that was because I was eating practically an extra day's worth of calories, despite only having burned around 500. "But I was starving!" doesn't cut it!

false..i've lost close to 50 pounds running...:noway: