Run, Diet, repeat...

I am snotty, but feel far better than I did last night. I detest being sick. I have far too much to do, and the inconvenience of it all is just too much! And that is my whine for the day. 138 days until the Marathon, and a 3-mile run on tap for today. I wish I could say that after a month of running and focusing that I am down 10 pounds, but quite honestly I have maintained. Just here on my plateau of 6 months… I feel like I need to tape my mouth shut for a few weeks to just lose a chunk of weight and get the weight loss moving again. I won’t do it, but I’d sure like to know why my body likes to weigh what it does –189. There I said it. I have been between 187 and 193 since June – never more, never less. I know that Marathon training by itself is not very conducive to weight loss, but if I focus on diet as well as my running, I should be able to lose something!?
I honestly don’t mind being an ATHENA. In fact, I kind of like it. I won 2 second place medals this year in my triathlons and it felt really good! I guess I like the recognition that I trained just as hard as those 120 lb wonders – who eat chocolate cake batter by the bowlful and never seem to gain an ounce (yes, my roommate from college – and she’s still 120lbs!!) I will not give up! That Biggest Loser finale really made me think that if all of them could do what they did, than I should too! Right??