Most weight you have lost ?

I do this all the time. My running weight is 150. My non-running weight is 180. It takes about 3 months to go from one to the other. When I want the 150, I run twice a day, hard pretty much everyday, almost all of it on the track. Maybe I'd take a couple weeks to just jog some to loosen up. I would imagine that everyone is different though.

My injury to my knee wouldnt allow that dramtic of a workout right away, wish I could.

December 2004. My team was having a new years party and i drank Eggnog. I dropped about 8lbs that night.

10 pounds in one week.

Oh...oh wait. How much have I LOST?

I would suggest, like coming back from any injury, that you just rebuild your volume gradually, making sure you listen to your body. An extra thirty pounds will put extra stress on you while running, but it doesn't mean that you are automatically that much more likely to get injured. Some cross-training is probably a good idea, but I don't think you need to go so far as to incorporate walking into your schedule, unless that was part of your exercise regiment in the first place.

If it is really something you are frightened about, seek out softer surfaces like grass or dirt trails for your running, to minimize the impact and reduce the chances of injury.

Just saw your post that the injury you're coming back from is a knee injury. As somebody with a history of knee injuries, I would also stress flexibility for future injury prevention; I know that it has been the key to my recovery from chronic tendonitis. The energy you're generating with each stride is at some point channelling through your knee, and the tighter your hips, IT bands, hamstrings, etc are the more work your knees are doing to compensate. An extra thirty pounds isn't going to help, but if your hamstrings are super-tight then your knees could end up doing 5 or even 10 times that weight in extra work.

30 lbs. I was a 5'11, 150 lbs. 800/1500 guy. I dropped down to 130 lbs. when training for a marathon. I thought weight loss was a magic pill that allowed you to keep running faster, so I kept going. Bottomed out at 120 lbs., with severe anemia. Back up to 130 now, but still struggling with the effects of losing 30 lbs. in the course of a year.

i would suggest running at "grandmas pace" (a phrase stolen from an interview with a really good african runner..can't remember who) to start out with, on grass. As I said, I can't remember who it was, but he would start out with runs of 2-3 hours coming back from injuries or long layoffs with this method. This accomplishes two things - lets your tendons, muscles, bones, etc, adjust to running again with a low stress stimulus and burns a lot of calories. I've used this to come back after long layoffs, and you'd be surprised at the amount of time you can run comfortably if you slow way down.

anyway, at this pace on grass you should be fine to run for 30-40 min even starting out, i would imagine (this is what i did after a long layoff and was fine). obviously listen to your body though and if it hurts, stop. if you've got knee problems, it's probably a good idea to do some light leg weights 3X a week after running too. ice afterwards, gradually build up to an hour and from there you can start adding in faster segments as your body allows.

2-3 hours ? to start with ? seriously ?

Run on grass or dirt if possible twice a day. Go longer on weekends. Don't eat after 7 p.m. Drink tons of water.

Lost 30 lbs in 2.5 months (185 to 155 lb @ 6 ft. tall) doing this.

Weighed 216 after finishing law/business school. Weighed 165 almost exactly a year later.

Can't run, but I walked to work (~3km), walked at lunch (~2km), and walked back home from work. Total for the day typically five miles.

Drank a liter of water during the morning and another in the early afternoon hours. Made my own lunch and dinner each day. Typically had an apple or orange during the morning; ditto during the afternoon. Zero calories after dinner: plain water or seltzer only.

Usually lifted on my one day off each week. For whatever reason, lifting generally seems to help me lose weight.

It helps that my "natural" weight is light: I weighed 148 when I graduated from college. It also helped that I stopped being a law/biz/bar student!

52 pounds in six months in my early 40's

injured and not running, got lazy and was living large,

too much fast food (burgers for lunch, pizza delivery for dinner), ice cream and candy.

Cut back on all those carbs and calories, started running

At six foot, one I went from 213 lbs down to 161 lbs.

went from 23, 24 minutes for 5km down to 18 minutes, sub six pace

I once lost 145kg of pure fat one evening.

Unfortunately the chick found me again later.

Walking did it for me, too. About a year before I started running again, I was up to about 185-190, biggest I'd ever been. I ditched the car and walked everywhere - to work, to the store, started taking the stairs, etc. Didn't really change the way I ate, just lots of time on my feet. After like 2 months I was down to about 160ish. Once I started running again, I got back down to 140 or so pretty quickly and leveled out there.

fat, bald wears glasses wrote:

ok, so here is the deal, I was hurt and gained alot of weight, 30 lbs from my racing weight, 25 from where Id like to be,Im around 193.

how do you lose the weight with running but not get re-injured from running while too heavy ?

what distance or time would you start ?

walking ?

So you want to be 5 pounds heavier than your racing weight?

Unless you are well over 6 feet, you should weigh less than 170 for competitive running.

Try this:

1-3 weeks) 20-30 min at easy pace 4-6 x per week to start. 1 longer run per week.

3-4 weeks) 30-45 min 4-6 x per week. 1 longer run per week.

add in cycling (long as you can stand it -- 30-300 min) and swimming (30-90 min) or rollerblading (30-120 min) as often as your energy will allow. Eat as well as you can. Drop the really high-cal foods and sodas. There are a million ways to do this.

Make these "cross-training" workouts at easy pace so they burn mostly fat. That is all they need to be for. once you have dropped the fat, and run 30-50 mpw for 8-12 weeks, you will be able to resume whatever training load you have done in the past and should be back to the 150-160 level.

15 pounds baby!!!!!

I just stopped eating. Amazing how fast it can come off, but I don't recommend it.

Lift weights. Supposedly it causes the muscles to burn more fat/calories even after you've worked out. Don't know if I buy this, but I've maintained a healthy weight since upping the lifting program.

BTW, I think 2-3 hours a day to start is nuts.

I have 3 months curtailed running every year.

This is due mostly to Hot Summers and because I'm an old Fart.

I usually gain 25lbs.

Run out slowly till you are stuffed then get Home The best way you can.

That is the best weight loss strategy I know for a runner.

Initially getting Home is a Walk/Run.

In a few weeks it becomes Fartlek.

I can average 2lbs + a week loss as long as I am careful not to Fill up the tank to often.

harsh but fair wrote:

I once lost 145kg of pure fat one evening.

Unfortunately the chick found me again later.

GOOD ONE!!! HAHAHAHAHA BEST ONE I HAVE HEARD ALL MONTH.

I have taken off over 80lbs, finally down to 157. Thank goodness running is the best exercise you can do for dropping the weight so running lots is key. The body has an amazing ability to adapt. Soft surface running is always a good idea if it is an option. I personally had to start on ellipticals, I had let my condition slip to be so bad (20 years of life happens). I did that until I could handle the dreadmill (it was Winter) and then on the roads as soon as possible. Went from 237 to 193 from January to April, the rest came off slowly perhaps 10 lbs per year. Pounding the roads made the bones hurt from about 4 inches above my knee to about 4 inches below my knee just hurt form the pounding. Advil 30 minutes before the run got me through the first year or so but now its great. The times dropped really nicely along the way. I think the injuries are just a fact of life when you are training, they happen you and deal with em.

fat, bald wears glasses wrote:

2-3 hours ? to start with ? seriously ?

no, i didn't mean he shoudl start out with 2-3 hours - i was just mentioning that that's what this guy did (he was a world class distance runner and id dthis after coming back from an extended layoff.(again, sorry about the mental blank on his name).

If you read the second paragraph, i recommend 30-40 min to start out at this pace. This is a lot better than belting out the door at your old pace and having to turn around after 5 minutes - or being injured after three days of running 30 min at this pace.