Run Your Butt Off!: A Breakthrough Plan to Lose Weight and Start Running (No Experience Necessary!)

Shed unwanted pounds and keep them off ONCE AND FOR ALL with Run Your Butt Off!, a back-to-basics, test panel–approved weight-loss plan and beginners' running program that yields sustainable, healthy results. The Run Your Butt Off! program is founded on the simple concept that in order to lose weight, calories burned must exceed calories consumed. No gimmicks, no shortcuts, no silver bullets can circumvent that reality. With this program, you'll learn to burn fat from both sides of the weight-loss equation—the calories in and the calories out—at the same time. Run Your Butt Off! by Sarah Lorge Butler with Leslie Bonci, MPH, RD, and Budd Coates, MS will make you fitter, stronger, and leaner.

SARAH LORGE BUTLER is a Runner's World contributing editor who has covered the racing, training, and nutrition habits of runners of all abilities, from beginners to Olympians.

LESLIE BONCI, mph, rd, is one of the country's most recognized sports dietitians and a consultant for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Pittsburgh Pirates, and other professional and amateur teams.

BUDD COATES, ms, has a degree in exercise physiology and is a member of the Runner's World advisory board.

RUNNER'S WORLD is the worldwide authority on running information. With a goal to inform, advise, and motivate runners of all ages and abilities, Runner's World aims to help runners achieve their personal health, fitness, and performance goals, and to inspire them with vivid, memorable storytelling.