Just found out about the community

[HappyNoodle]

Hi, about to start week 3. Trying to lose the excess four stone I am still carrying. I lost one in the last five weeks and decided to see if running might help to keep up the weight loss. I certainly feel good about it so far.

[Jay66UK Graduate]

Welcome. I’m hoping running will do the same for me. My lesson: I thought I was hungry and began overeating. I was thirsty instead!

[HappyNoodle Graduate in reply to Jay66UK]

Good luck, you are way further into your journey than me. I’m hoping this will be a long term change.

[Jay66UK Graduate in reply to HappyNoodle]

If you choose that it is then it will be x

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate in reply to Jay66UK]

Lots of water

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Welcome to the forum.

The guide to the plan is essential reading healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

Enjoy your journey.

[sallenson Graduate]

Someone senior and grown up will probably pop up in a while and say that C25K isn't positioned as a weight loss programme and that the relatively short duration/distance runs we do (Short? Ha!) don't enable weight loss particularly.

Jay and I (at least I think) would offer a different view. I'm in W5, Jay's a proper grown up, but I've lost 2lbs every week so far. And I'm not hugely overweight (I don't think). That's 8 bags of sugar to date.

I'm pretty active, but apart from the three runs a week I'm doing no more than three leg/core strength sessions and a session on a bike trainer. Only 30 minutes a day for those.

It's the running that's made a difference. And I feel shed loads better. Well enough to spend hours typing on here! And the only eating problem I have is occasionally missing my mouth

[Jay66UK Graduate in reply to sallenson]

Backing that up, I’m slowly losing weight. I lost 1kg just doing yesterday's run, but that was all fluid and I will have put that back on!

It is the old story - calories in vs calories out. Up your activity and you lose weight so long as you don’t simply eat more.

[HappyNoodle Graduate]

I’m trying to eat healthy and exercise too, to lose weight and hopefully keep it off. I am a teacher so I am on my feet most of the day and I walk the two miles to school and two miles back home everyday but now I run to school three mornings m. with a slight detour to fit it all in, and I am losing more weight. I would like to do some thing stretchy and some strengthening too but going to focus on this first then look for more.

[Irish-John Graduate]

I found I lost weight but not as much as I thought..then someone explained muscle weighs a lot also...and I suddenly realised I can see more of the floor these days when I look down

[HappyNoodle Graduate in reply to Irish-John]

I can see the difference in my body in just the two weeks I’ve been doing this and I couldn’t see it before even though I’d lost weight.

[Irish-John Graduate in reply to HappyNoodle]

And it only gets better! 😃

[_SimonT_ Graduate]

Hi Niki! Wow! A stone in 5 weeks is awesome! Are you on the NHS weight loss community too? They are also a nice bunch. Very supportive and I do a weigh in each week.

I spend more time over here, though. This lot have a better sense of humour! 😜

[HappyNoodle Graduate in reply to _SimonT_]

I didn’t know there was one or is it one you?

[_SimonT_ Graduate in reply to HappyNoodle]

It’s called weight loss NHS. Are you on this community via health unlocked? I’m on the app and also go back to the website to make new posts.

[HappyNoodle Graduate in reply to _SimonT_]

Thanks I looked it up and am now following

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

Check this out, even though you have begun

Well done you

Keep it slow and keep it steady...a healthy eating regime, linked with this is a win-win situation