-calorie protein, which is perfect for weight-loss, plus they'll keep you feeling full all morning.21 Don't overdo sports drinks. These can contain high-GI carbs, which can increase body fat. For runs of less than one hour, drink water instead.22 Drink oolong tea
- such as eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables every day, and building your meals around low GI carbs - you should lose weight and gain energy. "Low GI eating is really a healthy balanced eating plan rather than a weight-loss regime," says Bean
Conventional dieting wisdom doesn’t work for runners. It leaves you hungry, tired, and... overweight. So we updated popular weight-loss strategies to meet a runner’s needs. Here’s how you can fuel up smarter (on real food
, because running – especially quicker-paced running – is one of the best ways to fire up your metabolism (and keep it fired up). But to get maximal metabolic boost, you need to add weight training. Tweak your running sessions as well, and try to train twice
calories worth of food, hed neither gain nor lose weight. But if he follows our weight-loss guidelines to create a 1250-calorie deficit each day, he can still consume 2740 calories, which amounts to 16 bagels or 27 bananas or 34 apples or 14 servings
