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It depends on how long and hard your running but if your weekly total is 2 hours at low intensity that won't actually burn enough calories for significant weight loss. Even if you think your eating the same just 200 calories a days extra will offset your running. As said above a month isn't that long either so if your maintaining weight and getting fitter your still in a better place. For upping your running you have to build miles pretty slowly so the extra calories burnt will correlate with that so any weight loss will be gradual as well. And that is actually a healthier more sustainable approach. I can recommend the DQS app by Matt Fitzgerald (his books are also good) if you work on slowly building miles and improving your diet score at the same time you should be on the right track. Good luck with it.
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It depends on how long and hard your running but if your weekly total is 2 hours at low intensity that won't actually burn enough calories for significant weight loss
Not sure I agree with this. Plenty of people lose lots of weight with this activity level if they are backing it up with dietary changes.
According to Garmin Insights, running 2 hours per week puts you in the top 20% of Garmin users in terms of running duration. Three hours per week puts you in top 10%
@dubkev sometimes I find my metabolism gets stuck in a bit of a rut and I need to shake things up with a type or intensity of exercise I'm not used to. Have you considered doing some strength training? Works wonders alongside cardio for fat loss.
Stonehedge
Hey there LFGSS runners. I have picked it running again from the xmas break and been doing every second day (a 3-run pattern of long / short / short) without fail. Something that I've noticed this time around that didn't seem to be a factor previously - I'm not losing any weight. Diet is the same as before, and I'm not drinking, but the bulk I put on in the run up to Christmas just doesn't seem to want to budge.
Should I just be upping the distance? Was expecting to be seeing at least some results now, but nothing. I think not cycling to work every day any more is having an impact.