Exercise is a great way to help lose weight. Jogging or running is fantastic exercise. Find a good sidewalk, park, or trail in your area and start burning calories. Find out how to lose weight jogging by burning calories, increasing your metabolism, and improving your desire for healthy foods and reducing your craving for junk food.

• Jogging is a great way to burn calories

• Talk to your doctor before starting an exercise program

• You can burn 500-1,500 calories per hour depending upon your weight and speed

• Jogging and healthy eating improves your chances for successful, long-term weight loss

• Jogging can increase your lifespan

• Jogging can decrease your risks for several common diseases like diabetes and high-blood pressure

The content in this page is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Please contact your doctor before using the information presented here.

Jogging is a great way to help with losing weight. For every mile you jog, you'll burn in calories about 70% of your weight in pounds. For example, if you weigh 150 lbs, you'll burn 105 calories (150 times 70%) per mile of jogging. It takes a deficit of about 3,500 calories to lose one pound of weight.http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/tricks-to-lose-those-last-5-pounds

A mile can be jogged in 8-12 minutes for casual joggers. If you jog three times a week for a half hour, you'll burn 600-1,500 calories per week, depending on your weight and your running speed. That amounts to 2,500-4,800 calories per month. Jog more than that and the calories burned become even more significant.

Jogging will increase your appetite. To lose weight, you'll need to take in less calories than you're burning. You should plan to eat about 50% of the calories your burn while jogging as extra calories in your diet. Replace half of your jogging calories with healthy food, leaning towards vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and healthy proteins like soy and lean meats.

You'll need to combine your jogging eating program with a sensible diet, but you should plan to eat at least 90% of the calories you'd normally need, and even up to 100% on jogging days. For example, if you normally need 2,000 calories per day to maintain your weight, you should plan to eat at least 1,800 calories in addition to the 50% of calories you'll burn while running. Let's say you burn 500 calories in a given day, this means that you should eat at least 2,050 calories (1,800 + 250) but not more than 2,250 calories (2,000 + 250). This will give you a caloric deficit of 250-450 calories on a jogging day. On your non-jogging days, make sure not to eat more than your calories needed to maintain your weight.

A training program is a great way to help you lose weight jogging. It'll give you a concrete plan to follow and aids in tracking progress. If you've never jogged or haven't jogged for a six months or more, you'll need to ease your way into a jogging program. Consult with a doctor on a training program that will work best for you.

Here's a sample 16-week program for someone who hasn't jogged very much and doesn't exercise very often:

Weeks 1-2: Walk 3 times a week for 20 minutes each walk. Weeks 3-4: Walk 3 times a week for 30 minutes each walk. Weeks 5-6: Walk 2 times a week for 30 minutes each walk, jog 1 time a week for 20 minutes Weeks 7-8: Walk 1 time a week for 30 minutes, jog 2 times a week for 20 minutes each jog Weeks 9-10: Jog 3 times a week for 20 minutes each jog Weeks 11-12: Jog 3 times a week for 25 minutes each jog Weeks 13-14: Jog 3 times a week for 30 minutes each jog Weeks 15-16: Jog 4 times a week for 30 minutes each jog

If you weigh 150 lbs and follow the caloric-intake program described in step 2, you'll burn somewhere in the average range of 7,000 – 21,000 calories depending on how fast you walk and jog and how many calories you're consuming. This will mean a weight loss of 2-6 lbs in a 16 week period. Doesn't sound like much? It's not a drastic weight loss, but it's a healthy and sustainable one. It's not healthy to drop weight too fast, and rapid weight loss is never sustainable. http://www.webmd.com/diet/guide/lose-weight-fast-how-to-do-it-safely

By making jogging a part of your lifestyle, you'll drop those pounds slowly, but will have a much higher chance of keeping them off. You'll build muscle in your legs, which will also help with weight loss. You'll increase your metabolism and your energy levels. Regular jogging has also been found to reduce cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and high-blood pressure http://www.webmd.com/diet/exercise-weight-control . You'll feel better about yourself and be more positive. Now go put on some shoes and start your training program today!