Runner's Diet

Not getting injured is more important than any other aspect of running. You must be able to run.  Run slowly, run short distances, run often,  and eat whatever you want.  
 
Measuring distance and time are necessary but the other side of the coin is to ask yourself, "how am I feeling at this point in the run?  How does that compare to last month?  How much of that turkey roll did I run off?"


The goal for most runners and the focus of the industry is on competition.  I believe measuring how you do against others comes later...and only if you choose so to do.  So start by measuring the time you spend running and make it at least 15 minutes (not counting the warm-up and shower).  

Everybody can do this.  If you find yourself fading, slow down!  Spend more time running and less time eating.

Baby Food Diet

Sitting down and cracking a few jars of baby food for lunch with the gang has a lot of good shock value and will produce some laughs the first day or two.  But I would make sure you work in a place with no cruel people or that you are the boss before you try this at work.  I suppose you could transfer the baby food to another container before taking to work but then you lose the convenience that comes with this program.


You eat baby food for breakfast and lunch.  Drink a fiber supplement once or twice a day.  Then you eat whatever you want for dinner. Cool, huh?


There's a lot of variety in baby food now-a-days.  And you can even go organic or vegetarian if you wanted!  

Bolus Diet

This diet idea really would appeal to the technically minded person.

Phase I You don't change your eating habits. You take notes on how many swallows of food and non-water drink you take each day. You also note the bite size.

Phase II You take what you learned and simply reduce the number of swallows of food you take each day while maintaining the average bite size you measured before. So say you normally swallow 50 bolus' of food a day.

Try reducing that to 40 for six weeks and see what happens. Say you swallow 40 sips of cola each day. Reduce that to 30.

You don't have to change what you eat. Just how much. You focus on chewing your food better, increasing water intake while minimizing sugary drink intake.