No weight loss!

[Thingy0303]

I am delighted to be halfway through week 8 and expect to finish the whole thing in about 10 days.

I definitely feel fitter but have lost no inches which was one of my goals. Now that I am doing longer runs (and I eat sensibly), when can I expect to lose a few inches?

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate]

Well it isn't a weight loss plan.. so it may take a while..

Health eating linked with this will certainly make to feel fitter and healthier but the weight loss is a slow process...take a peek at our sister site... many of the folk here are on there also... and find it works well.

Weight Loss NHS

[damienair Graduate]

I’ve been running for around 2 years since graduating. I’ve been 2-3 stone overweight for about 20 years and it was always my wish to lose the weight. So I started running after being a couch potato for years. I was running 5k 3 times per week and was up to 10K every now and then. Guess what, I lost no weight. I thought I was eating a healthy diet, and I kind of was.

In January this year I decided enough was enough and I set out to lose the weight so as to help with my running. I gave up bread, sweet treats, eating between meals and greatly reduced my portions. I took the mantra of eat less and exercise more. It worked. I’ve lost 2.5 stone and my 5K time has gone from 33 mins down to 26 minutes.

Diet is 80-90% related to weight loss. It’s hard and you have to be hard on yourself. The main thing for me was reducing portion size on my plate, no bread and no sweet treats. And drink at least 2-3 litres of water per day.

Damien

[UnfitNoMore Graduate]

@damienair speaks volumes in his reply. There’s a saying that you can’t outrun a bad diet... and while that may not be 100%, you have to be running a lot of miles to disprove it.

Here’s how I see your situation... you’re fitter... so that’s one goal scored and because of it you’ll have an extended life expectancy. While the press are all on the obesity crisis, their focus is on sugar and fat... but the truth is it’s more of a not moving so much issue.

If your weight is stable across your running, some of it is muscle gain, a little is better hydration (hopefully you’re better at that than you were) and then the weight loss can come. Are you eating more than you were before? We burn the calories and that can make us hungry... so we can eat more and that’s ok because we burned the calories off, so maybe we don’t notice it happening. I’d suggest tracking everything you eat and then looking at what the fitness trackers say you burned with open eyes... it includes calories you would have burned sat in a chair.

If your weight is stable right now then a small reduction in intake will slowly (which is good) start to reduce the weight and get you to where you want to be.