My Tapeworm

Sorry. That is disgusting...and an exaggeration of course.
I AM eating like crazy though. I am hungry all the time. It started the day after I ran the 20 miler. I mean, that part makes sense...I depleted like, an entire day of calories. I guess my body is just trying to catch up now or something. That's all I can think of because I really have cut down my mileage drastically. I mean, my last run was only 5 miles but I am eating like I ran 20.

It's weird too. I have heard of people in marathon training who sit down to a 10 course meal, but mine is not like that. I can sit down to a regular meal and be full. But then 15 minutes later I am hungry again. And this goes on every 15 minutes or so until I go to bed. This makes it pretty difficult since I am travelling. At least I am staying in a flat instead of a hotel. That way I have all kinds of food stocked up.

I am trying to keep it healthy...granola bars, trail mix, dried fruit and cereal with only the occasional cookie. I know this is probably not a big deal to most people, but I am the fast food queen, so this is not normal for me. It is weird though, because healthier food is all that I want.

I am NOT trying to lose weight or anything, especially these last few weeks. (I read an article on tapering that said you should actually be eating a LOT of calories and a lot of carbs and fat with some sodium, and that you WILL gain weight in the last week but it is no big deal since it will come right off afterwards). However, I don't want to overeat. I have no idea when enough is enough. Argh.