Clean-Up Your Diet

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To lose weight, it helps to maintain a daily calorie deficit. In other words, you need to burn more calories than you eat each day. There are two ways to do this: Eat less and move more.

Running helps you maintain a calorie deficit by increasing the number of calories you burn. You can increase your calorie deficit and your rate of weight loss — at least in theory — by eating less. The problem is that running, like other forms of exercise, increases appetite which makes it difficult to eat less — something known as the compensation effect. This is the primary reason exercise often fails to meet people’s expectations for weight loss.

Individual appetite responses to exercise are varied. Working out has little effect on hunger in some people, yet makes others ravenous. There’s not much you can do about it either way. If running increases your appetite, you will probably eat more. What you can do to ensure that the compensation effect doesn’t stop you from reaching your goals is increase the quality of the foods you eat.

Actually, most of us don’t suffer from consuming too many calories, but rather from consuming too many empty calories. Before you try to cut calories, sports nutritionist Matt Fitzgerald, author of the book “The Endurance Diet,” recommends adjusting your diet to eat better than you were by cutting back on cookies, white bread and anything processed. Replace the junk with more fruits, vegetables and lean proteins and see what happens. You’ll likely see good results and feel better just by adding more high-nutrient foods, and you’ll naturally cut calories when you make the switch.

High-quality foods — foods boasting macronutrients, micronutrients and fiber — are less energy dense and more satiating than low-quality, processed foods, so they fill you up with fewer calories. By increasing your overall diet quality, you can eat enough to satisfy your heightened appetite without putting the brakes on weight loss.

Here are lists of high-quality and low-quality foods, given in rough descending order of quality.


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When you start running, make a simultaneous effort to eat fewer foods from the right-hand column and more from the left-hand column. There is proof it works. Danish researchers reported that new runners who ran more than 5K (3.1 miles) per week for one year — but did not change their diets — lost an average of 8.4 pounds. Meanwhile, new runners who also changed their diets lost an average of 12.3 pounds.

However, make sure you’re taking in enough calories. Often, athletes are chronically underfueling, and that slows their metabolism to a crawl, explains Nanci Guest, the dietitian behind the Canadian Olympic team during the Vancouver Winter Olympics. If that isn’t the case for you — and you’ve tracked what you’re eating, so you have that data — then you can cut some calories. But stick to lowering your intake by 500 calories a day, maximum. Don’t cut more than that or you won’t be able to fuel your training (that’s any cardio: riding or running have similar requirements) properly, according to Guest.



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