Need running friends trying to eat right!

Nice. 30 miles a week - you am serious runner! Good for you! I'm training for my 5th half marathon right now. Welcome. Looks like there's a lot of runners here.

Are you eating enough? If you follow the MFP method then make sure you add your exercise calories back. Especially since you do quite a bit of mileage each week. Or if you are consistent each week with running then look up TDEE and take a cut off of that. If you only want to shed a few lbs take a 5-10% cut off TDEE or make sure MFP is set at 0.5lb/week loss if using MFP the way it was set up.

Hi, great job doing 30 miles a week. Impressive. :drinker: I'm training for my second 1/2 marathon in May. Lost weight over the winter and now trying to maintain rather than lose myself. It's still a challanging balance. Some days I find myself ravenous after a workout and am still trying to find the perfect pre and post workout foods.
How many calories are you consuming? I'm wondering if you set yourself too low for the amount of running you are doing?

Hi! I'm also a runner. I'm not putting in the kind of mileage that you are at the moment, and I run mainly for the joy of running itself. I'm trying to lose a few pounds also and was eating at the MFP recommended 1200 per day plus eating back around half of my exercise calories. I felt weak and cranky, like I wasn't eating enough to fuel my running. I also wasn't losing much weight.

I raised my calories to 1500. I started eating back more of my exercise calories also. Lo and behold I started losing. It's only a pound a week loss but I've got to say that I feel great! I feel strong and ready to take on the world. Not only that, I'm amazed that I'm eating this much and still losing.

When I took the focus off of weight loss and put it on fitness, everything fell into place. You haven't given specifics of what and how much you're eating, so I can only speak for what is working for me.

I think this hits the nail on the head- when youre factoring in workouts, you have to maintain enough intake to keep yourself fueled. I have set my calories higher that MFP would recommend, but I use my bodymedia data to keep it balanced with the work I'm doing.

I'm a runner and have been my whole life, but havnt been eating healthy. Now I've been eating right and taking my running more seriously running 4-5 miles everyday!

Feel free to add me.

I typically do about 15 miles a week at the moment and strength train 3x week.

Depends what you think "Eating right" is, however. A lot of people would be horrified by what I eat - yet it's generally all working as expected for me, possibly even better. I do follow specific macros and don't bother to log salad, however.

Currently debating whether to break my normal 'no food before 1am' rule for a 6k cross country tomorrow morning.

Hi I'm a runner and I'm trying to lose a few pounds before spring training seasons starts. I just started MFP this week and I'm liking the accountability but I'm so hungry! I usually like to run ~30 miles per week and strength train 2x/week, but this week I've felt too weak to get my workouts in. I'm wondering if I just need a week to balance myself out. Anyone else have this experience or have tips?

Run, eat, rest, repeat.

Hi I'm a runner and I'm trying to lose a few pounds before spring training seasons starts. I just started MFP this week and I'm liking the accountability but I'm so hungry! I usually like to run ~30 miles per week and strength train 2x/week, but this week I've felt too weak to get my workouts in. I'm wondering if I just need a week to balance myself out. Anyone else have this experience or have tips?

Run, eat, rest, repeat.

Pretty much this. You may be slightly lacking in the "eat" and/or "rest" aspect of this which would cause you to feel like you do. 30 miles a week plus strength training...not saying you can pretty much eat what you want but there's definitiely more leeway for you. I recommend eating more peanut butter and pizza immediately to remedy the situation .

Edit: Feel free to add me. My advice is typically no worse that no advice at all.

Feel free to add me, though I don't run nearly as much as you! I alternate running and circuit training every-other-week. Got a couple of 5K races (race for life) in the summer - hoping to get my time as close to 30:00 as I can by then as it's currently at around 33:00.

1800 sounds more reasonable.

Generally the less you have to lose, the slower you want to lose it.

I'd be tempted to try and go for something like a 333 calorie deficit - that will take you a total of just over 2 months to lose it, but will hopefully mean less muscle loss.