Secrets of Endurance: Eating to Go (and Go and Go) - New York Times

Secrets of Endurance: Eating to Go (and Go and Go) - New York Times: "The need for calories is just as important during training. It wasn’t until she met with two nutritionists that Shelley Lawrence, a 40-year-old principal of a school in Westwood, Calif., realized she was asking her body to do the impossible: endure 30 miles a week of marathon training on a stingy amount of calories. “I live in L.A.,” she said. “The expectation is that women don’t eat that much.”

Nancy Clark, a registered dietitian and the author of a best-selling sports nutrition guide, persuaded her to eat more by using this logic: “If your little baby were crying, and you didn’t feed it, that would be called child abuse,” Ms. Clark said. “If you’re hungry, it’s called, ‘Oh, I’m on a diet.’ But it’s still abuse and it takes a toll.”"