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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a semi-fat person who by nature dislikes running.  But I run to get exercise and (try to) lose weight.  I've started (and stopped, and started again) running many times over the years.  My advice is that you start slow with low mileage (maybe 2 miles), 3 times per week.  Wear a watch (or put some app on your phone) to measure roughly how long it takes you.  Every week, you try to (1) increase your total mileage by just a little bit (maybe only a couple blocks farther), and/or (2) run it just a tiny bit faster than the previous week (maybe only 30 seconds faster).  Keep your goals simple and manageable.  You will get positive feedback quickly because you're not trying to bite off too much.  You are less likely to be injured because you're only increasing your effort each week by a tiny amount.  Those tiny increases will grow though, and you'll get better.  You won't want to quit, because you'll hate breaking the streak of positive improvement you've got going.  Best of all, you might learn to like running more.

That's my best advice.  (I think I'm sort of learning to like running at long last.)[/quote]

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