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
Swimming definitely makes most people hungrier, making them more likely to go for higher calorie foods. I have heard this time and time again from clients and experienced it myself. I weighed about 20 pounds more when I was exclusively swimming for exercise, but after practice I could easily wolf down 10 pancakes. Since I started teaching fitness classes and cross training, I can eat what I want and now weigh what i did at age 16. When cross training, I seem to only want moderate amounts of food and have learned to choose wisely! I just read an article today in HEALTH about how women are so terrified of food and this just isn't right! Finding healthy balance so you can enjoy food that is nourishing and healthful is possible, but some people embark on things so fanatically, they never give themselves a chance to experience that!
Swimming definitely makes most people hungrier, making them more likely to go for higher calorie foods. I have heard this time and time again from clients and experienced it myself. I weighed about 20 pounds more when I was exclusively swimming for exercise, but after practice I could easily wolf down 10 pancakes. Since I started teaching fitness classes and cross training, I can eat what I want and now weigh what i did at age 16. When cross training, I seem to only want moderate amounts of food and have learned to choose wisely! I just read an article today in HEALTH about how women are so terrified of food and this just isn't right! Finding healthy balance so you can enjoy food that is nourishing and healthful is possible, but some people embark on things so fanatically, they never give themselves a chance to experience that!
