Struggling to Lose Weight as a Runner? Here is the Secret with Runs for Cookies
Run to the Top Podcast | The Ultimate Guide to Running
RunnersConnect: Coaching Community, Running Experts, Inspiring Runners, No Fluff Blog
4.6 • 931 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Thanks for tuning into this episode of Runners Connect.
Today we’re talking about the weight loss aspect of running. We’re talking with Katie Foster who’s lost 125 pounds from running and has become an inspiration to runners and non-runners alike. She has some great advice. She’s best known for her Runs for Cookies blog and chronicles her journey and her ups and downs and really is inspiring.
“I was willing to only do changes that I could make forever.” - Katie
Katie talks with us about how making a list of the changes you intend to make could be the difference between temporary and permanent results, how to still [...]
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| 0:00.0 | If you just do it now and you only do changes that you're willing to live with forever, then there's really no reason to put it off until tomorrow or the next day like you can make changes right now and they're not going to be horrible changes because they're ones that you're willing to live with. |
| 0:14.0 | So do it now and there's no reason to, you know, be the same weight that you are a year from now. |
| 0:20.0 | Welcome to the Runners Connect, Run to the Top Podcast, where it's all about learning from the best minds in the sport so you can train smarter, stay healthy, and run faster now. |
| 0:32.0 | And now your host, Tina Muir. |
| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Tina Muir. |
| 0:37.0 | Thank you so much for being here with me today for the latest episode |
| 0:40.0 | and last episode of the year of the Runners Connect Run to the Top |
| 0:44.8 | Podcast. It's hard to believe yet here we are. I hope you have something fun |
| 0:49.8 | planned for the new year and I know we have a lot of exciting changes planned for this |
| 0:54.0 | podcast in 2016. I got a lot of feedback from your surveys and if you did miss |
| 1:00.1 | out on the survey feel free to email me but I hope you will enjoy these |
| 1:03.9 | changes we've made after hearing the feedback. So last week we talked to Luke |
| 1:08.9 | Psteadra who shared his story as a University of Oregon runner who quit running for good after his first disastrous marathon, |
| 1:17.0 | but eventually his passion was reignited and he actually ended up running a 210 in Chicago. |
| 1:23.0 | So that was one end of the spectrum and we learned about how important balance was in our lives to keep running |
| 1:30.0 | as just a part of our lives rather than all of the focus in our lives. |
| 1:34.0 | But today we're talking about it from a different angle, more of the weight loss aspect of running. |
| 1:40.0 | So almost all of us have chosen running in part because of the weight loss or weight maintenance aspect. |
| 1:46.0 | It allows us to stay healthy and keep enjoying some of our favorite foods. |
| 1:50.0 | We know how good it is for us. |
| 1:52.0 | So today you're going to hear from Katie Foster, who's lost |
| 1:56.1 | 125 pounds through running and has become a source of inspiration for runners and non-runners alike. |
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