I hit a plateau in my weight loss when I started running more.
After having read an article similar to the one you linked I tried eating more, but in the spirit of the whole 'anti carbs' craze I mostly avoided carbs and ate a lot of protein...and actually gained weight.

so then I continued to eat more, but made sure to get roughly 55% of my calories in carbs, 25 in protein and 25 in healthy fats. When I say roughly I mean VERY roughly. I don't count calories anymore, I try to eat what my body demands. that means: if Im craving pasta - I wait. if Im still craving pasta later in the day, Ill eat pasta.
Im NOT saying eat whatever you please no limits, but listen to what your body needs. it takes a little practice, but your body tells you what it needs.
ever since then my running/endurance has improved massively, and I have lost quite a few pounds!

I wear a heart rate monitor for almost everything and use those calorie counts. It is DEFINITELY lower than what MFP would give me. Even for faster runs, where my heart rate is up in the 160s. MFP overestimates like gangbusters if my heart rate monitor is right.

Even when I'm not training for ultras I take about 30 percent off of the MFP estimates. I don't think those estimates are designed for folks who are putting in 40, 50, 70 miles a week.

So are you hungry all the time? That's what I'm wondering. When I finish lunch or dinner, I'm just as hungry as when I started eating. When I go to bed..... I'm sad..... I'm so hungry.

The week before a race, I'll eat until I'm not hungry - which isn't all that much more than what I'm eating pulling a defiicit..... maybe 250 calories more? And my body feels like it is singing. Not my stomach, like, all over. My mood, my energy, everything feels finally okay.

Yeah, so this article got me wondering if what's been happening this whole time - the whole 4 years that I've been slowly putting on weight - is "starvation mode" and messed up hormones rather than simply eating too much. I assumed I was just eating too much.

My understanding of how this works is not that "starvation mode" is real -- it is NOT true that you actually lose more weight when consuming more calories.

What is really going on is that when people get too hungry, they overeat to compensate. So the idea is to eat strategically to avoid this. You might actually be eating when you are not hungry, but this prevents feeling super-hungry later on. Most important is to consume some proteins and carbs right after your workout.

In the end, however, you still need to consume fewer calories than you burn, which means that getting a good estimate of how many calories you are burning is key.

http://www.drsharma.ca/five-sobering-facts-about-ghrelin-and-emotional-eating.html

Left for Mexico weighing 133.. Did nothing but eat and drink myself silly with zero exercise... When I came back I weighed 128... :-/ I don't know how to explain things like that. It baffles me

I totally want to go on the Mexico diet. You should market it. It would be wildly popular!

I thought it was my ultra running that made me gain my weight. I usually gain for anything marathon and up. It usually falls after going back to base mileage. Been at base for about a month now, not one pound loss despite eating at a deficit. I have also been on a no grain, low sugar diet for a medical reason. My cause is actually hormones! I am not sure if that is applicable to you or not.

I wear a heart rate monitor for almost everything and use those calorie counts. It is DEFINITELY lower than what MFP would give me. Even for faster runs, where my heart rate is up in the 160s. MFP overestimates like gangbusters if my heart rate monitor is right.

Even when I'm not training for ultras I take about 30 percent off of the MFP estimates. I don't think those estimates are designed for folks who are putting in 40, 50, 70 miles a week.

So are you hungry all the time? That's what I'm wondering. When I finish lunch or dinner, I'm just as hungry as when I started eating. When I go to bed..... I'm sad..... I'm so hungry.

The week before a race, I'll eat until I'm not hungry - which isn't all that much more than what I'm eating pulling a defiicit..... maybe 250 calories more? And my body feels like it is singing. Not my stomach, like, all over. My mood, my energy, everything feels finally okay.

Yeah, so this article got me wondering if what's been happening this whole time - the whole 4 years that I've been slowly putting on weight - is "starvation mode" and messed up hormones rather than simply eating too much. I assumed I was just eating too much.

I'm in a very different situation, my mileage is only in the 30mpw range, but when I started trying to lose weight and get fitter last year I had to have a good look at what diet did to me.

Initially I set a fairly agressive loss rate objective, and as a result had quite a low calorie goal. For about 8 weeks I lost reasonably consistently, although at a lower rate than my objective. It then stalled.

Following some advice on here I increased my goal by about 300 calories and after another couple of weeks things started to improve again.

Reflecting back what I think happened was that when I was on the lower calorie goal, and having addded running to my life, I was so fatigued that my background activity level had reduced significantly. I was always uncomfortably hungry, and tired. I also really wasn't performing adequately at work as a result, and nearly gave up on the whole exercise.

I hit my weight loss goal about 2 months ago, then reset it to lose a bit more, although to be fair I'm ow a lot less worried about weight as such, given that my suits are now all a bit big for me.

With a job that takes ~60 hours per week

I was in the realms of opting to send an email rather than three flights of stairs and talk face to face. Not a good place to be, for a whole host of reasons.