College runner here, currently a freshman. Since the beginning of this year I have been plagued with nagging injuries that have kept me off the trails for some time, including a stress fracture in my left tibia that has me resting for another 2 weeks or so. I never really cared to adjust my crappy diet ever since I stopped running high mileage, because I thought my 19-year-old metabolism could sustain my training/race weight.
Turns out I was wrong. Weighed myself at the gym the other day and I am 15-20 lbs. over my ideal training/race weight (which is