I would write you a story about this one but we did the whole Ikea workout today, walking around the store for hours, carrying heavy flat-packed boxes, pushing heavy carts, loading heavy boxes into the car, unloading them and carrying them up flights of stairs. Condensed furniture is heavy. Ha! Maybe I have written you a story about this. I haven’t lost any weight since we started running, but I do think I look a bit trimmer and more condensed. Muscle being so much denser and heavier than fat cells, I suppose that’s possible, right?
Anyway, Ikea. I haven’t even really assembled anything because I’m just exhausted, so I’m off to bed now.
I lost some weight last year running, but I did a lot of it in small increments – short runs three times a week, and then more intensive training for a half-marathon. For me it was worth it just to be out of the house a bit more – for the first time since moving to the UK, I had something resembling a tan! Running with small weights is something I like to do. builds up some upper body strength…but enough about that, I’m already starting to sound like a running nerd! :) Hope you enjoy your summer of running…
You are like Ikea furniture! Compact, cute, easy to shop for, difficult to lug upstairs with a dolly, and coming with incomprehensible instructions and an allen wrench.
Denise, that is the nicest thing anyone has ever said about me. I’m going to use it as a review quote on the back of my next book. :D
As someone who is both big into running (and eventually lost a lot of weight through a combination of it and better eating) and used to help train runners for their first marathon… yep, early on the conversion from fat to muscle will result in you having little to no weight change, but becoming more compact. (Eventually once you’ve finished adding on that new base layer of muscle, the fat just starts going away without being replaced and the weight goes down.)
i’m in the same boat. started running in jan and haven’t lost a lick of weight… but word on the street is i appear slightly more condensed. it’s certainly something :)