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Running 2- 3 times a week but gaining weight

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  • luciahough
    luciahough Posts: 11 Member
    You could not be eating enough. Your body could be going into starvation mode. Do you feel hungry all the time?? Try to up your calories by a bit and see what happens! You need more fuel think. You think especially if you're training!
  • trjjoy
    trjjoy Posts: 666 Member
    luciahough wrote: »
    You could not be eating enough. Your body could be going into starvation mode. Do you feel hungry all the time?? Try to up your calories by a bit and see what happens! You need more fuel think. You think especially if you're training!

    Seriously???? Starvation mode is a myth.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    luciahough wrote: »
    You could not be eating enough. Your body could be going into starvation mode. Do you feel hungry all the time?? Try to up your calories by a bit and see what happens! You need more fuel think. You think especially if you're training!

    Please - enough of the myths.

    Get Real and read point #10 here: http://www.acaloriecounter.com/blog/why-am-i-not-losing-weight/

    Or an entire article dedicated to the subject:

    http://www.aworkoutroutine.com/starvation-mode/
  • juliegoodallmummy
    juliegoodallmummy Posts: 1 Member
    My instructor at the gym today was telling the class how much we overestimate how many calories we burn with exercise. Gadgets like Garmins etc also overestimate, as do treadmills. You may be thinking a 10k run has burnt 500 calories but it might be closer to 250 calories. Apparently heart rate monitors are more accurate in calorie burning estimations. You may be simply eating more calories than you are burning. It's easy to do as running makes you hungry.
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