Can running before dinner help lose weight?

Running is a very good fitness exercise, especially now that urban construction is becoming more and more complete, there are more and more outdoor places for people to run. Moreover, running not only allows people to have a healthy body, but is also very good for the heart. More people also use running as a means of losing weight. But we all have to go to work, and it’s too late to eat after get off work. So can running before dinner help you lose weight? Let’s find out below.

Running before meals is because the stomach is empty and no new fatty acids have entered the fat cells. Exercise can draw them out and convert them into calories to be consumed. Therefore, jogging or brisk walking half an hour before meals and persisting for 40 minutes can achieve the effect of fitness, beauty and weight loss.

You should not run half an hour before a meal. The gastrointestinal digestion requires the participation of digestive juices. The brain should have enough time to secrete digestive juices half an hour before a meal, which is conducive to gastrointestinal motility during meals. On the other hand, what you need to pay attention to when exercising before meals is not to engage in overly strenuous activities. Strenuous exercise can easily lead to a decrease in the secretion of digestive juices, and breathing heavily during exercise can also affect a person's appetite.

When running, you should pay attention to:

1. Doing warm-up exercises before running can help enhance ligament elasticity and joint flexibility, and avoid problems such as muscle strain or sprains due to carelessness.

2. Although running is not an intense exercise, a large amount of blood will be concentrated in the lower limbs and muscles after a long period of exercise. If you stop immediately without proper relaxation, it will affect the blood flow back to the heart and cause blood to remain in the muscles, making it difficult to eliminate lactic acid. It is also easy to cause insufficient blood supply to the heart and brain, resulting in dizziness and fainting.

3. It is recommended to do a 5-10 minute massage after running, which can relax the leg muscles and make the legs slimmer. At the same time, if possible, soaking your feet in hot water before going to bed can effectively eliminate leg obesity problems such as edema, thereby achieving the effect of slimming your legs.