Any Runners trying to train & lose weight?

I just started half marathon training, I'm in week 2. I'm trying to lose 5 pounds too. I feel like my runs will be just a bit easier if I can shed the extra pounds.

I've run 5 marathons and a bunch of other distance races. Then I stopped running for a long while and just started running again. I'm 10 pounds over my race weight, so trying to lose that now. Aiming for a half this fall and a full Marathon next spring.

How much weight do you have to lose? Both marathons I had run I had gone from my kind of normal weight of 165-170 up to my heaviest (190) and lost the 20 pounds over the course of marathon training without doing much change in diet just from the sheer number of calories burned each week. The advice I have always heard was never try to diet (i.e. eat at a deficit) while marathon training... you are going to need to eat to have the energy to run all those miles and not lose muscle mass, but what you can do is shift your nutrition so you are eating better. And do things like eat more carbs before runs/on run days so you actually burn them off. You will see positive results.