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
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Jerrycat,
An example of fat-loss:
I started swimming about 4-5 weeks ago. 2000-3500 Meters a day.
I have no idea if I lost any weight, since I decided to not obsessively weigh myself.
I am watching my diet and calorie intake, and I've noticed I dropped one dress size within the last month.
I also noticed a lot of positive changes in the muscle tone, upper and lower.
I read somwehere several years ago that one dress size change usually adds up to 8-10 pounds of fat loss.
Hoping this continues so I can be around 4 or 6 in 2 months :)
Also, I started off coming out of very sedentary lifestyle for couple of years.
For those of you who have been working out all along, you may need to introduce different kind of change in your diet/exercise style.
As for swimming and fat... Our bodies tend to react to being cold (lower temperatures in water) by wanting to store some fat, which can lead to extra hunger. I tend to be very hungry after a distance swim.
Occasionally I take an appetite surpressant. When you're that hungry, sometimes it is too easy to overeat. With an appetite suppresant, I can limit the calorie intake to what I need, rather than what I feel like.
Jerrycat,
An example of fat-loss:
I started swimming about 4-5 weeks ago. 2000-3500 Meters a day.
I have no idea if I lost any weight, since I decided to not obsessively weigh myself.
I am watching my diet and calorie intake, and I've noticed I dropped one dress size within the last month.
I also noticed a lot of positive changes in the muscle tone, upper and lower.
I read somwehere several years ago that one dress size change usually adds up to 8-10 pounds of fat loss.
Hoping this continues so I can be around 4 or 6 in 2 months :)
Also, I started off coming out of very sedentary lifestyle for couple of years.
For those of you who have been working out all along, you may need to introduce different kind of change in your diet/exercise style.
As for swimming and fat... Our bodies tend to react to being cold (lower temperatures in water) by wanting to store some fat, which can lead to extra hunger. I tend to be very hungry after a distance swim.
Occasionally I take an appetite surpressant. When you're that hungry, sometimes it is too easy to overeat. With an appetite suppresant, I can limit the calorie intake to what I need, rather than what I feel like.
