Hey Everyone!
I've noticed that it was so much easier to loose weight with running, as opposed to swimming. It seems even though i'm swimming hard, the 13 or so pounds that I need to loose haven't budged. When I was running, my diet didn't have to be really clean...in fact I ate pizza at least once a week, and found that it helped me during high mileage. During running, my weight was very low despite the pizza habit. While swimming makes me hungrier, and I'm probably burning more calories per workout, the weight loss isn't there.
Why is this?
Thanks,
Jerrycat
Parents
Former Member
Weight loss should only be undertaken as a set of permanent lifestyle changes (incorporating exercise and sensible eating). Depriving yourself of pizza and other treats will only increase the odds of the plan failing. Therefore I recommend the calorie-count approach. You can eat any food item you wish, as long as you keep to your calorie limit (and meet basic nutritional requirements).
A slice of commercially produced cheese pizza might be something like 400 calories. If you have 2000 calories in your daily budget, you can have a slice during lunch with plenty of caloric headroom to work with the rest of the day.
Tomorrow, in fact, I plan to meet my Dad at the Chinese buffet.
Weight loss should only be undertaken as a set of permanent lifestyle changes (incorporating exercise and sensible eating). Depriving yourself of pizza and other treats will only increase the odds of the plan failing. Therefore I recommend the calorie-count approach. You can eat any food item you wish, as long as you keep to your calorie limit (and meet basic nutritional requirements).
A slice of commercially produced cheese pizza might be something like 400 calories. If you have 2000 calories in your daily budget, you can have a slice during lunch with plenty of caloric headroom to work with the rest of the day.
Tomorrow, in fact, I plan to meet my Dad at the Chinese buffet.
