Originally Posted by Kestrel
You don't want to eat too much less than what is minimum, typically 2000 calories per day. Mainly because your body will compensate by retaining as much fat as it can, and that fat metabolism (since you're missing calories) produces a lot of undesirable chemicals in the body, which, if it's severe enough, can overwhelm your kidneys. And you'll feel like shit as well.
I'm a night runner myself, and during the winter I typically wear a long sleeve T-shirt on top of a regular T-shirt, and if it's really cold I'll wear my MTB jersey on top of that. I also wear long pants, and when I was doing my undergrad at UM I would also put on hats and gloves. It keeps me warm enough to get started for about 0.5 mi or so and then I start taking the layers off. I don't know if that might help you run in the winter... :dunno:
You see, thats another wierd thing. I swear, after all the years I've studied my body, I feel like my body was conditioned just to make it a lot harder for me. I've had a few professionals calculate EXACTLY how many calories my body uses to sustain its weight, and it was charted at 3400 calories or so, give or take a little. Obviously, thatsbull shit.
When I dieted last year, I was on a strict 800 calorie diet per day. When I eat normally, which ends up being around 2000 calories, i gain weight.
Go figure?