Running and Weight Loss

Diet is for weightless exercise is for fitness. Get your diet under control taking into account any exercise and you'll lose weight

Run for fitness, not for weight loss. No ne can say if or how much weight you would lose by running. Your weight loss will depend on your diet. Track you calories, stay in budget and you'll lose whether you run or not.

Running will help you keep the weight off and will boost your cardio-fitness so you'll end up being more generally active. But if you run without watching your calories, you'll naturally eat back the deficit.

I just finished the c25k program and i lost 13 pounds doing that.

I run-jog 10 miles everyday, well actually I take 2 days off a month. I run-jog for 2 hours a day. I have a route that I created in my city. I clocked in that I am burning between 1000-1200 calories within 2 hours of jogging. After jogging, I walk 10minutes to my gym
and I do strength training exercises. I will normally do 200 squats with a 20 pound weight, I will lift 10 pound weights( bicep curls and I do lunges and other exercises to work out my lower and upper body(This is normally 30minutes long. I than do a 30 minute abdominal workout. In total my workouts are usually 3 hours long. Sometimes 3 in a half hours if I decide to do 15-30 minutes worth of internal running at the end of my workout. But that is if I am not too tired. I also have to walk back from my gym so that is another 10 minutes back home. At night I go for a 30minute walk with my husband and then I do my cleaning, take the dogs out for a quick 10 minute walk(cannot walk them for the life of me) They wanna kill everything in site. So I mean, I am pretty active, I don't work, so I have a lot of free time on my hands. Since I have been running I lost 9 pounds. I'm not exactly where I want to be ....my stomach still is my trouble area, but I mean, i weigh 99 pounds. So i can't quite complain too much. I think if you start running, get on a really well balanced diet you will see results. My results took a long time... I had to really cut out the bad food and really dedicate myself to excersise everyday. I know I should rest more, but hey I have a lot of time to recover, I don't work.

Well I've lost about 53lbs since I started running in January, HOWEVER, the weight loss is due to the calorie deficit. I eat back (happily!) all my running calories. Like someone else mentioned, exercise for fitness and eat for weight loss.

I'd say the only way running has contributed to my weight is that it allows me to eat more and therefore is making this whole process much easier as I'm in no way feeling deprived.

To answer your other questions at the moment I run 3x per week at 10km-20km per run but it's come down quite a bit since the summer. When I was training for the marathon in August my weekly mileage was definitely higher.

I started C25K in May and also started dieting, doing Slimming World. Along the way I ditched SW, started 5:2 fasting and counting calories on my normal eating days. I'm 50 and I run 5K twice a week now. I also have horses which keep me active and I'm a part-time housekeeper as a job so that keeps me moving too. I have lost 43lbs so far and am only two pounds away from my target.

Everyone loses weight at a different rate. Like most people said in their reply, it's all about 'your diet. Try to eat as clean as possible. Also, I personally find that HIIIT with sprints works great to really shread up. Keep pushing youself, you'll get to where you wanna be.

Some interesting research has been done on sprinting and how effective that is. Apparently the body uses up a lot of energy accelerating, just like a car does. So short bursts of speed are definitely worth the effort.

Usain Bolt burns less than 20 calories running a world record 100m. There are lots of good reasons to add sprinting/intervals, but calorie burn isn't one of them.