's example and build up to a 5k using our beginner schedules.If you already run, set yourself a more challenging target. Kirsten Lodge only ran occasionally but signing up to a half marathon and upping her training helped her lose 15 pounds over six months

. Armed with a Runner’s World half-marathon training schedule, he set himself a target of 2:30, and promptly modified it to sub-2 when he realised how fit he was getting. On race day, he finished in 1:52, just seven minutes behind his boss

Keith Fitzpatrick was very active when I first started seeing him at my sports nutrition clinic. He ran 25 miles a week, played rugby and lifted weights regularly. In the previous three years, Keith had lost almost three-and-a-half stone on his