Many people wonder whether running for weight loss is a good idea. Running confers many benefits-it gives you a great cardiovascular system, it burns lots of calories, and it builds willpower and self-discipline.
However, running also has a dark side. Thousands of Americans suffer from running-related injuries every year. Running improperly or attempting an aggressive training regimen too quickly can cause foot, leg and knee problems that last for decades!
It's really the ramp-up time that makes running a difficult method for weight loss. If you're not already a trained runner, you can't just start running 5 miles a day, even if you're in good shape from other sports-running at the level of intensity required to burn serious calories is really a discipline on its own and your arches, shins, posture etc. probably are not ready to handle the running program you'd like to adopt to lose weight.
So running for weight loss can work-but usually only if you've been running for a while... and then you probably don't need to lose much more weight!
An alternative approach that's much easier on the body is to diet. Don't hit the back button yet-I'm not telling you to start eating nothing but salad and count every calorie you consume. In a proper diet for weight loss, structuring your meal schedule and varying the amounts of food you eat are at least as important as regulating your overall calorie intake, and you definitely shouldn't have to starve yourself.
The key to a good diet is that it does the same thing exercise does-it increases your metabolism-but without the physical stress of exercise. The calorie shifting technique pioneered by the FatLoss4Idiots diet is a perfect example of this. With FatLoss4Idiots, you can eat pretty much any food you want-what matters is that you vary the types of foods and eat them at the correct times in order to maximize your metabolism. Using these techniques alone, it's possible to lose as much as 9 pounds every 11 days!
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