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I run three miles a day, never drive anywhere (bike or bus), eat reasonably healthy, and I'm still 20 pounds overweight. And what really scares me is that runni

by pkulak 2y ago

I run three miles a day, never drive anywhere (bike or bus), eat reasonably healthy, and I'm still 20 pounds overweight. And what really scares me is that running is the only exercise I enjoy and if my weight fluctuates up just 5 pounds or so, I start getting hip/knee/foot etc pain. If I gain 10 pounds through some lapse in morality, I won't be able to run anymore and I'm cooked. If that happens, I'm banging down my doctor's door for a pill.

intothemild 2y ago
So I'm a distance runner, who is on these drugs.. and yeah, It sucks, I LOVE running.. but running heavy SUCKS. Most people run to lose weight, I lose weight to run.
- karmajunkie 2y ago
  honest to god i wish i knew what it was like to be like you —i have always hated every step of a run, and im halfway convinced the notion of a runners high is a convenient fiction cooked up by nike.
  - Schiendelman 2y ago
    There are a few things that happen here, but the most common one is not having someone helping you with form, and running much too fast. If you talk to a physical therapist and run with a distance runner and have them help you keep your heart rate in zone 2, you will probably feel much better.
  - __turbobrew__ 2y ago
    Second the other commenter. Measure your heart rate and stay within a lower zone. Most likely this means you will be walk-running at the beginning or even just walking up a steep hill. Running is an activity of many small incremental gains. Every week you can go a little tiny bit further but if you amortize that over a year it makes a big difference. Many go into running too fast and hard which leads them into not liking it because they feel absolutely miserable the entire time or they injure themselves due to bad form. I had a good physical therapist which took me from nothing and for the first few months I wasn’t even running but doing foot and ankle strengthening because that part of my kinetic chain was so weak.
  - occz 2y ago
    This took me a long time to figure out: it's ok to not like running. There are other forms of physical activity that may appeal more to you, which you can do in place of running. I'm personally into biking, which gets me more than enough exercise.
artursapek 2y ago
It's probably seed oils tbqh
zahlman 2y ago
>I run three miles a day Which will burn somewhere on the order of 400 excess calories - about as much as a typical North American muffin (or two of the big cookies from Subway). But worse, your body was probably going to use most of those calories on something else (fidgeting, running a higher body temperature, other immune responses including inflammation) anyway, assuming that you haven't been gaining weight with your current habits. Exercise is healthy and reduces stress, but it just isn't effective for weight control. Humans are animals, and animals have on the order of a billion years of homeostasis technology behind them. >eat reasonably healthy Hardly anyone has any accurate picture of how much they consume, as measured in calories, except for those with actual explicit experience of measuring and accounting it. If a pill happens to end up helping you eat an amount that lets you maintain a healthy weight, I'm all for that. But it's important to have your mental model properly calibrated.
- pkulak 2y ago
  We’re not making different points. Read the parent comment I was responding to.

by pkulak 2y ago

intothemild 2y ago

So I'm a distance runner, who is on these drugs.. and yeah, It sucks, I LOVE running.. but running heavy SUCKS. Most people run to lose weight, I lose weight to run.

karmajunkie 2y ago
honest to god i wish i knew what it was like to be like you —i have always hated every step of a run, and im halfway convinced the notion of a runners high is a convenient fiction cooked up by nike.
- Schiendelman 2y ago
  There are a few things that happen here, but the most common one is not having someone helping you with form, and running much too fast. If you talk to a physical therapist and run with a distance runner and have them help you keep your heart rate in zone 2, you will probably feel much better.
- __turbobrew__ 2y ago
  Second the other commenter. Measure your heart rate and stay within a lower zone. Most likely this means you will be walk-running at the beginning or even just walking up a steep hill. Running is an activity of many small incremental gains. Every week you can go a little tiny bit further but if you amortize that over a year it makes a big difference. Many go into running too fast and hard which leads them into not liking it because they feel absolutely miserable the entire time or they injure themselves due to bad form. I had a good physical therapist which took me from nothing and for the first few months I wasn’t even running but doing foot and ankle strengthening because that part of my kinetic chain was so weak.
- occz 2y ago
  This took me a long time to figure out: it's ok to not like running. There are other forms of physical activity that may appeal more to you, which you can do in place of running. I'm personally into biking, which gets me more than enough exercise.

artursapek 2y ago

It's probably seed oils tbqh

zahlman 2y ago

>I run three miles a day Which will burn somewhere on the order of 400 excess calories - about as much as a typical North American muffin (or two of the big cookies from Subway). But worse, your body was probably going to use most of those calories on something else (fidgeting, running a higher body temperature, other immune responses including inflammation) anyway, assuming that you haven't been gaining weight with your current habits. Exercise is healthy and reduces stress, but it just isn't effective for weight control. Humans are animals, and animals have on the order of a billion years of homeostasis technology behind them. >eat reasonably healthy Hardly anyone has any accurate picture of how much they consume, as measured in calories, except for those with actual explicit experience of measuring and accounting it. If a pill happens to end up helping you eat an amount that lets you maintain a healthy weight, I'm all for that. But it's important to have your mental model properly calibrated.

pkulak 2y ago
We’re not making different points. Read the parent comment I was responding to.