Rest day, and I’m thinking about food. I originally said I wanted to get closer to 110 than 120 before real training started, but I’m at 117. I’ve only gotten there by recently (past 2 weeks) formally vowing to cut out junk food and candy, and eliminating my normal glass of wine\/beer on weeknights. Everyone says “don’t diet while marathon training,” which makes sense, and I mostly want to focus on eating extra-nutritious food as opposed to *not* eating stuff. Junk food can be a real temptation for me, and I also fall into that stupid trap where I think it doesn’t “count” if I’m on the road\/on my own etc. So if I’m with Jonathan, I need real meals, but by myself a candy bar & bag of chips is fine. I want to treat my body better than that!<\/p>\n
Going through a number of the running blogs that Mark’s collected<\/a>, I was struck how many of the first ones I checked out referred to having had eating disorders. Scary! I’ve never gotten near that unbalanced about food, but there are things I need to look out for. Reading and eating are tied together: if I’m eating something delicious I particularly want something fun to read, and vice-versa. So I’m trying to keep a few principles in mind (eat slowly and avoid fake food–emphasized by Will Clower’s great The Fat Fallacy<\/i>–focus on enjoying the food, choose good food even if it takes longer\/costs more, etc.)<\/p>\n I’ve been a vegetarian (lacto-ovo) for more than 20 years, by the way, and normally I don’t worry about protein at all, but I’ll have to keep that in mind a little more. We have a good source of free-range eggs, so that will be easy (especially since I love eggs). Through another blog I found this page<\/a> on what to eat after a long run. Slim-Fast? No thanks, that spells “fake food” to me, but what seems just perfect is Cheerios with milk & fruit. I love love love them but normally avoid them most of the time because I tend to not be able to stop at one bowl. A legitimate reason to down 2 bowls after a long run? Hurray! “My advice is to find something that you really love to eat and use it as a celebration of your hard work from your training.” Exactly. A reason to look forward to long runs! I just better check the Cheerios box again–I remember them as being basically pretty healthy without too many additives, but…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rest day, and I’m thinking about food. I originally said I wanted to get closer to 110 than 120 before real training started, but I’m at 117. I’ve only gotten there by recently (past 2 weeks) formally vowing to cut out junk food and candy, and eliminating my normal glass of wine\/beer on weeknights. Everyone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/marathon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}