Why You Run But Can't Lose Weight

beemerphile1 wrote: »

Anyone running to lose weight will fail in the long term. You restrict calories to lose weight, you run/exercise to improve your fitness/health.

But loosing weight helps you be faster

Alatariel75 wrote: »

KaterinaDokuzova94 wrote: »

1) Don't eat 1 h after the run

Why?

I mean up to 1 h cuz at that period you are most hungry idk it works for me I usually eat lunch and dinner and I have lost some weight. I also try to cut salt,sugar,pasta and bread as much as I can.

rileysowner wrote: »

Yet, often the added exercise is counteracted by a decrease in NEAT expenditure. At least that is the explanation for the general lack of success in simply adding exercise to achieve weight loss. Can it work, sure, but not regularly.

This has been my experience. And increase in appetite. And my body is hanging on to water in order to repair muscles. Anyone who thinks they are building muscle while running probably isn't (getting stronger not the same as adding muscle mass). I had a friend who had lost a bunch of weight through starvation and a medication that was causing appetite suppressant. She wanted to lose a little more and was talking about coming running with me. I told her it would probably derail her as it would increase her appetite when she was doing a pretty effective job at starving herself to thin. Still, if you like running you should run. If you don't, find something else.

Stoshew71 wrote: »

I don't even know where to begin to criticize this article. So I will just say, yeah... what everyone else is saying. Losing weight is about managing your calories. If you eat (slightly) less calories than what your body needs for the day, then you will eventually lose weight. If running makes you require more calories for the day... well you factor that in to your daily equation.

All the EPOC, running too much, running to much the same way, blah blah blah....

Use this site the way it was intended. You will know what through careful examination of what you put into your body combined with tracking what you do in a day, combined with regular weekly weigh-ins, over time you know how to adjust your calories, your workouts, your intensities so that you can lose weight.

If you are not losing weight: you are either eating too much (underestimating what you are tracking in intake), over estimating what you burn in your exercises, or your calorie limit you set is too high. none of this EPOC afterburn stuff blah blah blah blah.

^This! Running too much actually makes me lose too much weight.

There are many points to running.

MorningGhost14 wrote: »

Running to lose weight misses one of a bajillion points to running.

What if I run for a bajillion reasons including to lose weight?

PeachyCarol wrote: »

Why You Run and Can't Lose Weight by Peachy Carol

1. You're Eating Too Much

Naaaah. This is too simple, cannot possibly be correct

MorningGhost14 wrote: »

Then you run for all the points.... lol

bah, i started running to loose weight.
now i have other reasons to keep running

Upstate_Dunadan wrote: »

Great article on the topic of conditioning vs. cardio. Fits into the topic in a sideways kinda way. Also it's sure to ruffle the feathers of any cardio lovers out there

https://www.t-nation.com/training/predator-conditioning

I can't understand why.

Ignoring the misogyny, I still don't think it is a great article.
First, it all comes down to what your goal is. "Conditioning" as he describes isn't going to get me over the finish line of a half Ironman.
Yes, tons of cardio and eating very little will have negative effects but not everyone is doing that. There are tons of distance athletes who don't have "underfed seabird, manboobs, and an upper body made of twigs and Jell-O"
The whole article assumes people who are doing "cardio" are doing only long, slow runs.

"Conditioning prepares you for battle. Cardio makes you really good at running slowly away." - No, not really. You want to run a faster 5k? Some longer slower runs will definitely help you.

"Conditioning fires up the metabolism. Cardio extinguishing it over time. "- nope.

"Conditioning relieves anxiety, boosts all-day energy and fires up brain function. Cardio increases anxiety and cortisol. (Runners are only happy when they run. The rest of the time they're *kitten*. True story.). " - nope (and not just because of the *kitten* part).


"The rule here is that if you can do it while checking your iPhone, watching TV, or carrying on a conversation then it isn't predator conditioning." That's great, most of my runs fall under this and I'm not even doing the exercises he suggests.

Upstate_Dunadan wrote: »

Great article on the topic of conditioning vs. cardio. Fits into the topic in a sideways kinda way. Also it's sure to ruffle the feathers of any cardio lovers out there

https://www.t-nation.com/training/predator-conditioning

I stopped reading at "t-nation".