will running boost weight loss?
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Supadoopafly
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Tomorrow I start week 2 of C25k. I currently run/walk a circuit of 2.66 miles in about 47 minutes.
Ideally I intend on being able to run the whole 3.2 miles in 45 mins (or less).
I'm 323lbs. Will running aid weight loss? In the past my weight has been stubborn at removing itself from my true bikini body as is proving the case at the moment.
Thanks for reading.
Ideally I intend on being able to run the whole 3.2 miles in 45 mins (or less).
I'm 323lbs. Will running aid weight loss? In the past my weight has been stubborn at removing itself from my true bikini body as is proving the case at the moment.
Thanks for reading.
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Running - like all exercise - burns calories, so yes, it can help with losing fat.
Careful with running at your weight, because the risk of injuries is higher. Take any pain as a possible sign to reduce or stop the running.0 -
Running does burn more calories than just walking yes. Be careful while doing C25k, don't forget you can repeat weeks if you need to. At your weight, walking alone will burn significant calories without as much stress on your joints. I started at 278 and going 2.6 miles in 45 minutes is amazing!!!
If you really want to go for calorie loss go for distance verses speed. I have an article somewhere I'll look for but you can enter the numbers in MFP and see what I mean.
Let's say you walk 4 miles total.
The calorie burn by walking 2mph for 2 hours = 3mph for 1 hr & 20 mins = 4mph for 1 hour. All the same distance and all similar calorie burn even though speed & time is different. Just something to think about.0 -
Hey! That's my starting weight... and I'm just finishing week two of c25k.
Exercise helps for sure, and running flat out rocks. I'm sure people will suggest you add some strength training in order to maintain muscle as you lose. I do You Are Your Own Gym on the days between my runs. :drinker:0 -
Must confess I find walking really boring. My body frustrates me, I can do so much more than it will let me.
I run very slowly. I tend to one run per eeek outdoors and the rest on tbe treadmill.
My fat is sooooo stubborn. My resting heart rate is 69bpm, I work hard at the gym. The weight isn't shifting.0 -
Hey! That's my starting weight... and I'm just finishing week two of c25k.
Exercise helps for sure, and running flat out rocks. I'm sure people will suggest you add some strength training in order to maintain muscle as you lose. I do You Are Your Own Gym on the days between my runs. :drinker:
hey, youve done well to lose 25 pounds. Can we be friends so I can see what you're eating?
I love the Mark Lauren book, I need to revisit it, ive neglected it for many months.0 -
At your weight, I would opt to go slower (to minimize chances of injury) and a longer duration...the more you move, the more calories you burn. Trying to increase your speed too quickly is risking injury and injured feet, ankles, shins, knees or hips can set you back to doing zero exercise.0
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You will be much better off separating your workout routine and eating.
What is eat is going to be the primary factor in weight loss.
Working out is going to make you a bad *kitten*.0 -
Honestly I think it depends on the body. I too did the C25K. The first few weeks I started to lose but once I got to the longer runs, my body seems to hold on to the weight. My body seems to go into "stress" mode I guess. Once I went back to the shorter runs and eventually cutting running out then I started losing weight again. I lift weights too so I know it wasn't a "building muscle" thing as to why I wasn't losing. I don't like running at ALL so maybe even that in and of itself put my body into too much stress. IDK but anyway give it a try and see how it goes for you personally.0
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You will be much better off separating your workout routine and eating.
What is eat is going to be the primary factor in weight loss.
Working out is going to make you a bad *kitten*.
I wish I could, but exercise inspires me to eat better.0 -
At your weight, I would opt to go slower (to minimize chances of injury) and a longer duration...the more you move, the more calories you burn. Trying to increase your speed too quickly is risking injury and injured feet, ankles, shins, knees or hips can set you back to doing zero exercise.
not too bothered about speed right now. My goal is to do that 45 min/3.2 mile thing eventually. I can help the speed I do at the moment, it's my natural slow pace, I can run faster, but don't. However i dont think i can run any slower. I was really concerned with weight loss and running.0 -
You will be much better off separating your workout routine and eating.
What is eat is going to be the primary factor in weight loss.
Working out is going to make you a bad *kitten*.
I wish I could, but exercise inspires me to eat better.
That's cool, its just a slippery slope. As others have said running eventually will even out and you won't be losing much weight from it alone. Although running gets you more calories, so bonus!
Personally I am training so for me food, running, lifting is all just a means to an end.0 -
Hey all - I have a similar question. I've been doing C25K for 2 full weeks, going into week 3. Up until I started that, I was walking 3 miles or more a day at a rate of 3.5-4 mph. Started this journey right about 200 lbs...lost 12 lbs in 6 weeks with walking. In the last two weeks, I've lost NOTHING. I'm not gaining, really either, so that is good. Haven't changed eating habits or anything, so not sure what is going on. I am trying to figure out if maybe I'm gaining muscle or if my body is hanging on to fluid or what. I'm stumped.....0
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Hey! That's my starting weight... and I'm just finishing week two of c25k.
Exercise helps for sure, and running flat out rocks. I'm sure people will suggest you add some strength training in order to maintain muscle as you lose. I do You Are Your Own Gym on the days between my runs. :drinker:
hey, youve done well to lose 25 pounds. Can we be friends so I can see what you're eating?
I love the Mark Lauren book, I need to revisit it, ive neglected it for many months.
My diary isnt open because I honestly don't want my parents seeing that I drink Scotch and eat pot pies regularly. They are on my friends list.
I know a lot of people will discourage running at 300ish pounds, but I'm like you and find walking super boring. It also feels more uncomfortable than slow running to me. If you don't have any health problems to prevent you from running, why not run, right? I avoid heel striking and go slowly so my form doesn't get sloppy.
If the weight isn't shifting you are eating too much. :bigsmile:
I suggest weighing food or not eating back all the exercise calories which are often overestimates.0 -
For me, it doubled my weight loss efforts. When I started a couple of years ago, I could walk but could barely run two blocks. It was so incredibly hard at first, but my strength and endurance came so fast even though at the time it felt like forever. Go slower or run less if you need to. Repeat weeks if you need to as long as you just keep going. Good luck!0
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Hey! That's my starting weight... and I'm just finishing week two of c25k.
Exercise helps for sure, and running flat out rocks. I'm sure people will suggest you add some strength training in order to maintain muscle as you lose. I do You Are Your Own Gym on the days between my runs. :drinker:
hey, youve done well to lose 25 pounds. Can we be friends so I can see what you're eating?
I love the Mark Lauren book, I need to revisit it, ive neglected it for many months.
My diary isnt open because I honestly don't want my parents seeing that I drink Scotch and eat pot pies regularly. They are on my friends list.
I know a lot of people will discourage running at 300ish pounds, but I'm like you and find walking super boring. It also feels more uncomfortable than slow running to me. If you don't have any health problems to prevent you from running, why not run, right? I avoid heel striking and go slowly so my form doesn't get sloppy.
If the weight isn't shifting you are eating too much. :bigsmile:
I suggest weighing food or not eating back all the exercise calories which are often overestimates.
I eat back the calories my (chest strap) heart rate monitor says I've burned, I dont follow MFP.
I weigh everything.0 -
For me, it doubled my weight loss efforts. When I started a couple of years ago, I could walk but could barely run two blocks. It was so incredibly hard at first, but my strength and endurance came so fast even though at the time it felt like forever. Go slower or run less if you need to. Repeat weeks if you need to as long as you just keep going. Good luck!
thank you!0 -
Hey all - I have a similar question. I've been doing C25K for 2 full weeks, going into week 3. Up until I started that, I was walking 3 miles or more a day at a rate of 3.5-4 mph. Started this journey right about 200 lbs...lost 12 lbs in 6 weeks with walking. In the last two weeks, I've lost NOTHING. I'm not gaining, really either, so that is good. Haven't changed eating habits or anything, so not sure what is going on. I am trying to figure out if maybe I'm gaining muscle or if my body is hanging on to fluid or what. I'm stumped.....
So 2-4 lbs was easily just water weight lost, probably from change of sodium in diet, and storing less carbs with attached water.
But now you are running and asking the body to store more carbs than it did previously, because you are using more of them.
So more carbs more water weight.
You should see inches dropping still, eventually you can only store so much extra carbs and you'll see the weight drop again with the fat.
But I hope your diet changes since you are burning more now. If you aren't going to fuel your workout to gain benefit from it - why waste time doing it?
If it's merely to burn more calories, it's easier to drop 200 from the diet than to try to exercise 200 more.0 -
Hey! That's my starting weight... and I'm just finishing week two of c25k.
Exercise helps for sure, and running flat out rocks. I'm sure people will suggest you add some strength training in order to maintain muscle as you lose. I do You Are Your Own Gym on the days between my runs. :drinker:
hey, youve done well to lose 25 pounds. Can we be friends so I can see what you're eating?
I love the Mark Lauren book, I need to revisit it, ive neglected it for many months.
My diary isnt open because I honestly don't want my parents seeing that I drink Scotch and eat pot pies regularly. They are on my friends list.
I know a lot of people will discourage running at 300ish pounds, but I'm like you and find walking super boring. It also feels more uncomfortable than slow running to me. If you don't have any health problems to prevent you from running, why not run, right? I avoid heel striking and go slowly so my form doesn't get sloppy.
If the weight isn't shifting you are eating too much. :bigsmile:
I suggest weighing food or not eating back all the exercise calories which are often overestimates.
I eat back the calories my (chest strap) heart rate monitor says I've burned, I dont follow MFP.
I weigh everything.
If you are not losing at all and have already been consistent for a few weeks then you are lacking the calorie deficit that would give you weight loss. You may want to adjust you calorie goals, or the amount of you exercise calories you eat back.
Eta... But it looks like you've already lost 6 pounds this month? So maybe just expectations need adjusting? :flowerforyou:0 -
At your weight, I would opt to go slower (to minimize chances of injury) and a longer duration...the more you move, the more calories you burn. Trying to increase your speed too quickly is risking injury and injured feet, ankles, shins, knees or hips can set you back to doing zero exercise.
not too bothered about speed right now. My goal is to do that 45 min/3.2 mile thing eventually. I can help the speed I do at the moment, it's my natural slow pace, I can run faster, but don't. However i dont think i can run any slower. I was really concerned with weight loss and running.
For your weight...if your burn calories are accurate...you should be losing weight. Your exercise diary shows that you have already burned over 5,000 in exercise this week!
One thing that I noticed in your food diary is that you are waaaaay waaaay over in sodium some days...protein was way low.
I assume that you are eating all your exercise calories back? If they are over inflated then that might be why you are not losing.0 -
At your weight, I would opt to go slower (to minimize chances of injury) and a longer duration...the more you move, the more calories you burn. Trying to increase your speed too quickly is risking injury and injured feet, ankles, shins, knees or hips can set you back to doing zero exercise.
not too bothered about speed right now. My goal is to do that 45 min/3.2 mile thing eventually. I can help the speed I do at the moment, it's my natural slow pace, I can run faster, but don't. However i dont think i can run any slower. I was really concerned with weight loss and running.
For your weight...if your burn calories are accurate...you should be losing weight. Your exercise diary shows that you have already burned over 5,000 in exercise this week!
One thing that I noticed in your food diary is that you are waaaaay waaaay over in sodium some days...protein was way low.
I assume that you are eating all your exercise calories back? If they are over inflated then that might be why you are not losing.0
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