It feels great, but does my butt look big in these shorts?

Posted on November 19, 2014

Man, I love running -- it keeps me happy/ unsad. Got to give it to those endorphins; I'm blissed out after a nice run.

But to be fair, it doesn't do a thing for me in terms of losing weight. (For me, it just maintains.)

You read that cardio takes off the fat. Tried that, doesn't work. In fact, I've been running 4-5/wk since May, and off and on for the past 3 years. And while it's fabulous going from barely able to run for 1 minute, to running 8-10km/45min, it does squat for weight loss for me. Go figure.

(I know why. The great chocolate chip cookie experiment of August 2014 comes to mind. *hehehehe* It was SO worth it. :DDD)

Good thing though is, once I keep with a healthy but strict diet for a reasonable period and get the weight off, the running keeps me there. Like I said, it's maintenence only. And also, free drugs.

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Clothes Pony

11/19/2014 5:29AM

You've got a great sense of humor. And besides giving us free feel-good drugs and maintaining whatever we do to our weight through diet, we have to acknowledge that it does burn a few calories too, so negates a little bit of what we eat.

My friend walks everywhere, refuses to own a car even though we live in a public transportation dessert. She gains 10 pounds every summer eating the same, doing the same amount of walking, but in winter she has to walk in cold weather and so it burns enough calories that she loses the 10 pounds she gains in summer.

So it is part of the whole equation. I think the hardest thing to realize in a world where we have more than enough delicious choices of food, and need to do so little physical labor, we lose track of how efficient our bodies are, and how few calories we actually do need to maintain health.

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Frae

Oh yeah. Because the flip side of this is, I was maintaining with barely a blip in my weight while eating 10,000 kcal of the most nummilicious cookies for two weeks on. OMG. :DDD

Your friend's awesome. We got rid of our (2nd hand) car 6 years ago to reduce our carbon footprint, but we live in an area with luxurious bike lanes and pretty decent buses. Plus, things are so close that I can just walk to grocery shop.

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