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Something that I\u2019ve been thinking about for a while is the fact that last year I spent four months training for a marathon and didn\u2019t lose any weight.\u00a0 None!\u00a0 And now, how can it be that after completing two marathons in eight months, I still haven\u2019t lost much weight?\u00a0 I\u2019m not alone in this. I\u2019ve noticed that a lot of marathon runners (the slower ones, not the 3 hour guys) are somewhat overweight.<\/p>\n

Stumbling the web the other day, I came across a blog<\/a> which seemed to have the answers to these questions. The title of the blog was \u201cWhy Does Endurance Training Make Some People Skinny Fat, And Others Ultra Lean?\u201d\u00a0 Most of what it said about skinny fat athletes seemed to describe me, or at least it described the way I ate and trained up until a month ago. I can\u2019t say I\u2019ve become an Ultra Lean runner (or even lean) but I feel I may have started the move in that direction.\u00a0 (Full disclosure: I love to eat, and one of the reasons I originally took up running was because I believed it would allow me to eat the food I like and still keep my weight in the normal range. It\u2019s true, however, that since then running has become a passion\/obsession in its own right).<\/p>\n

Training Makes A Difference:<\/p>\n

According to the Josh Hillis, author of Skinny Fat and Ultra Lean, \u201cAll of the lean endurance athletes are training one way, and all of the skinny fat endurance athletes are training completely differently.\u201d Over the past month I\u2019ve changed the way I train from more of the same low intensity runs of varying distances to \u2013 in the words of Hillis, \u201ca structured training week hitting different adaptations from long low intensity endurance training, to high intensity speed work, to moderate intensity tempo work.\u201d<\/p>\n

As I mentioned before<\/a> my trainer\/dietician has created a training program for me based on heart rate levels. This regimen includes four runs a week – that\u2019s one more than used to run – and each run is different. The first run of the week is an easy 5-8 mile run (at a target HR of 140-145). The next two are mid-length tempo or interval runs, and the last run of the week is a long run. Every week the distances get longer and more difficult (distances at high HR levels).<\/p>\n

For the first time, I find myself feeling challenged every time I run. Often I find myself at the beginning of a run wondering if I\u2019ll be able to complete it, and at the end of the run I feel like I could keep on going. And hey, I don\u2019t know if all this will pay off in the Rotterdam marathon, but it definitely feels good.<\/p>\n

Eating correctly is much tougher for me than running right. I\u2019m trying to cut out much of the fat in my diet, and eat the carbs my body needs to be able to run. Not easy \u2013 especially since it means making adjustments in my insulin regimen.\u00a0 There have been some (too many) lows.\u00a0 But if I get this right, I might run a faster marathon, lose some weight, and maybe even go from skinny fat to ultra lean, or at least to not-as-skinny fat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stumbling the web the other day, I came across a blog which seemed to have the answers to these questions…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[631],"yoast_head":"\nLosing Weight and Running with Diabetes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=5583\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" 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