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If you like the taste of peanut butter, this one is great: One serving (2 Tbsp) peanut butter One scoop vanilla flavor protein powder 2 or 3 cups of raw Spinach or Kale It's only 360 calories and, despite the spinach/kale and those nutrients, all you taste is peanut butter.

I put however many calories I am over my goal onto the next day (or spread them out over a few days if necessary). Makes it easier to remember to hit the exercise harder and/or skip the snacks the next day because I'm running a surplus on calories, or a deficit on exercise, which amount to the same thing.

I agree with others that if you're fairly new to running you don't need to worry about speed work, but another way to look at it is that the fact that it was hard means it worked. It will get less hard, and you will get faster. I also recommend the free Adidas miCoach app (or any of the other apps that do the same thing;…

I use miCoach from Adidas. It's free, and it's really great. In fact, it's largely responsible for me being into running. It not only tracks distance, pace, calories, route, etc., and syncs up with your music, it also will create specialized training programs for you to, e.g., train for a half marathon, full marathon, 5k,…