Did I ruin my season by not eating enough two days?

If the furnace is hot enough, it will burn anything.

No, unlikely that undereating *by itself* would have had that effect. However, if it was part of a pattern of *under-recovering*--maybe. Have you had shorter and/or irregular sleep hours?

Nope; sleep and diet besides have been perfect. At least 9 hours a night. Perhaps I was still eating too much outside of the two days? I was 7ish pounds more than I was in the summer, which I blamed often on the cafeteria food.

How much is a lot of weight? I doubt you lost more then 5 lbs. Thats me being generous. Unless you didnt drink water...at all...then i dont see how you lost so much weight in a 2 day period. So how much weight did you lose?

I highly doubt two days ruined your entire season and I would give you a troll rating but...maybe...I misread something? Sometimes I only have bfast and a small dinner because I have class in the afternoon and this is several times a week for a few weeks and I only got faster as the season went on.

I am going to say...you are a mental case who actually thought two days affected you weeks after. And its not even like you didnt eat at all, so you are either a shitty troll or a complete mental case

I went from 152.8 on a Mon morning to 146.8 on a Wednesday morning. I drank very little water as well with the hope of losing some extra water weight.

Yes, I am a mental case I'm sure. I overanalyze and do thing that aren't best for me...and I'm still not that fast.

lease wrote:

No, unlikely that undereating *by itself* would have had that effect. However, if it was part of a pattern of *under-recovering*--maybe. Have you had shorter and/or irregular sleep hours?

Or maybe it rained or was cold, and therefore there was not enough OXYGEN in the air.

Okay, glad to hear you're getting the sleep. Now let's go to the usual fallback in these cases: get your blood checked.

You do eat meat, right?

Yes I eat meat. I am 100% confident my diet could not have been better. Although if I was anemic I wouldn't know.

Dude, I lose that much weight in an hour working out on the eliptical. At most you lost about 2/3rds of a pound of fat. The rest was water. 150 seems pretty heavy for a distance runner unless you are about 6'3". I would cut the calories a couple months instead of a couple days and you will be in the 28s next year.

Hopefully you are a chick.

A: you are an idiot

B: you season was ruined the day you were born with only enough talent to run 29:XX in an 8k

Two days. Are they tasty?

Undereating for two days likely had ~0 effect on your season as a whole. Your training probably had much more influence. You either peaked early or the training you were doing in the summer just worked better than the training you did once the season started.

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I went from 152.8 on a Mon morning to 146.8 on a Wednesday morning. I drank very little water as well with the hope of losing some extra water weight.

You ate enough.

You were dehydrated from not drinking enough water.

It's essential to drink plenty of water when aiming to lose weight.

From Pfitzenger:

Worst of all, dehydration tends to catch you unawares. If you replace a little less fluid than you lose each day, after a few days you will run poorly but may not know why. Exercise physiologist and marathoner Larry Armstrong, Ph.D., induced dehydration equal to 2% of body weight in runners and observed a 6% decrease in speed over 5K or 10K. That's a 3% decline in performance for each 1% decrease in bodyweight due to dehydration.

http://pfitzinger.com/labreports/dehydration.shtml

Keep the low-cal gatorade flowing during the day.

I lost weight eating cookies once, but my time improved or stayed about equal. I was going to eat the cookies regardless; so, I figured I would eat them for lunch and save myself some money and the extra calories.

It was very gratifying because one person told me the cookies would make me fat, and I actually lost weight and then hawked that person down the home stretch of the next race.