I'm not sure how to square these results with my experience. I went from almost 30 BMI to under 22 BMI using running extensively. Of course, there are always a lot of confounders, but on my weight loss plot, you can basically see the periods where I was running consistently (with the exception of the potato diet, I was not running during…
I'm not sure how to square these results with my experience. I went from almost 30 BMI to under 22 BMI using running extensively. Of course, there are always a lot of confounders, but on my weight loss plot, you can basically see the periods where I was running consistently (with the exception of the potato diet, I was not running during that yet still lost weight). If it's not CO, then it must decrease appetite and hence CI, I guess, which does seem possible based on my experience. Nevertheless, I would not discount running even low mileage (I'm running around 30 miles weekly, occasionally high intensity) as a weight loss strategy.
It seems to have worked for my 1 friend whom I mention in the article, too. He also ran at least 30 miles a week, whereas the studies Pontzer cites seem to be a bit less than that (I think up to 25mi?)
Could be that you got over that "hump" into the "it actually works" zone, or maybe you're just a good responder to exercise, or the CI decrease you mention.. who knows. I always just get hungrier from exercise :)
I'm not sure how to square these results with my experience. I went from almost 30 BMI to under 22 BMI using running extensively. Of course, there are always a lot of confounders, but on my weight loss plot, you can basically see the periods where I was running consistently (with the exception of the potato diet, I was not running during that yet still lost weight). If it's not CO, then it must decrease appetite and hence CI, I guess, which does seem possible based on my experience. Nevertheless, I would not discount running even low mileage (I'm running around 30 miles weekly, occasionally high intensity) as a weight loss strategy.
It seems to have worked for my 1 friend whom I mention in the article, too. He also ran at least 30 miles a week, whereas the studies Pontzer cites seem to be a bit less than that (I think up to 25mi?)
Could be that you got over that "hump" into the "it actually works" zone, or maybe you're just a good responder to exercise, or the CI decrease you mention.. who knows. I always just get hungrier from exercise :)
What would happen if you took your running back down to a, shall we say, sane level?