*This really is about Paxton.  Patience.*

Lately I’ve been struggling with my nutrition.  No matter how much I’m eating, I still seem to be dropping a little bit of weight each week.

Not that I mind!  Don’t get me wrong!  In all honesty, though, there’s not a whole lot left of me that I really should lose.  Therein lies the rub.

I log my food on MFP every day.  A day like today, I logged what I ate and the calories were surprisingly low.  Not enough.  I’m drinking a ton and I cannot drink a lot and eat a lot.  There has to be some give/take.

I think the problem lies in the heat/humidity of Mississippi.

This morning I only had to run 7 miles.  Now granted, that was a tempo run so I was gutting it out for most of those miles and when I was done, I was astounded to discover that I had lost 4 pounds!!!  That run only took me 1:18.  That is a heckofa lot of weight to drop in that amount of time.

I have been tracking the heat/humidity on all of my runs this summer.  I have also been weighing before and after my runs this summer.  I don’t want to go into a run dehydrated.  I try very hard to replace the fluids lost on a run before the next day’s run.

I’m still losing!

Now, show me a woman who doesn’t want to be thinner.  I mean, really!

There is such a thing as “race weight” and I am pretty darned close to race weight.  The “Ideal Racing Weight Estimator  http://racingweight.com/rwe/index.html#/  says I only need to lose one more pound to be at racing weight.  The way I am going right now, that shouldn’t be a problem for The Berlin Marathon and the Marine Corps Marathon.

I don’t know how I feel about this.

Back in 2013, when I ran my first marathon, I weighed 130 lbs.  I had fought hard to get down to that weight.  Now, two years later, I’m at 105 lbs.  I’ve worked hard and should be pretty pleased with myself.  Instead, I find myself a little concerned.

So, I’ve upped my calories.

MyFitnessPal says for me to maintain my current weight, I should be eating 1200 calories a day.  Now, I’m eating 1400-1600 calories a day.  *Today is an exception.  It is so doggone hot, food is gross.  I’m just drinking…TONS!*

After over 3 yrs on MFP and conditioning myself to 1200 calories a day, I’m having a difficult time wrapping my mind around the fact that presently I can eat more than that!

Anyway…enough of all this nonsense.

The title of this blog is, “The struggle is real.”  This was supposed to be about Paxton!!!  Hahaha!!  I sure did get sidetracked!

A FB friend of mine posted a funny for me.  It is of dogs watching somebody eating.  Seeing as that exact same thing had happened during my lunch today AND I had taken a pic of it….well, it was providential that I should share.

🙂

I had a bacon cheeseburger for my lunch.  Paxton was watching intently.  You never know when a crumb might hit the ground!  HA!