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Re:I became addicted to running, and lost 26 lbs. All thanks... by aaaa123456 on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:07PM (#36529686)
You cannot outrun your diet. All of the weight loss came from dietary changes. Running as an exercise is really good for you but if you're not an actual athlete only contributes marginally to calories burnt.

I burn roughly 2000 calories for doing a 20km run, a bit more than an hour and a half of running, heart rate of 170 to 190bpm. There is 1300 calories in a large big mac meal [1]. Its stupid easy to consume excess calories. For the next day or two after a 20km run I feel so famished that I could eat 6000 to 8000 calories a day after that.

[1] https://www.calorieking.com/us/en/foods/f/calories-in-meals-...

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Re:I became addicted to running, and lost 26 lbs. All thanks... by JimtheCoder on Thursday June 29, 2023 @10:44PM (#36529911)
"You cannot outrun your diet."

I know some triathletes who would beg to differ.

For someone just getting started...I agree.

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Re:I became addicted to running, and lost 26 lbs. All thanks... by seanthemon on Friday June 30, 2023 @02:17AM (#36531181)
If you're on triathlete level it becomes "you can't outdiet your run"
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Re:I became addicted to running, and lost 26 lbs. All thanks... by heavenlyblue on Friday June 30, 2023 @05:20AM (#36532315)
As a male you would also consume 2000 calories just doing nothing, so that puts you at 4000 calories in that day you would have consumed. So that's not that excessive.
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Re:I became addicted to running, and lost 26 lbs. All thanks... by aaaa123456 on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @11:54PM (#36595355)
> As a male you would also consume 2000 calories just doing nothing, so that puts you at 4000 calories in that day you would have consumed. So that's not that excessive.

Thats my point 4k calories is not much. Its super easy to consume it 4k calories, its a shit load of effort to burn 4k calories.

Check out this, eat and burn 10k calories in a day. You can guess which one is harder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZTz9LDFg1E

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