Talk to me about Nutrition while training

 Ok, so I struggled to up my calories to about 1,000 a day and most days I'm still not there, closer to 800 if I'm honest.  I'm steadily losing at 1-2lbs a week still and I'll look at stopping somewhere in the next 10lbs or so (weighed in at 148 today [a normal BMI] and don't know where I plan to stop but would like to see the 130s).  My runs are now up to 6-10 miles and I'm finding by mile 5.5 or 6 I really feel that drain on my body.  I've added G2 to my hydration belt rather than jus****er and that helps me through the shorter 6 mile runs, but by 8 miles I'm about to keel over.  I'm thinking I need to add some sort of nutrition in on the run.

I don't normally eat anything before the run, just drink a cup of coffee with about 1/4 cup of skim milk in it, then when I get home I have a cup of skim chocolate milk.  I'd REALLY like to get my Army 10 miler time down to 1:45, I'm currently doing it at about 1:50, and I'm thinking (maybe wrongly) that getting a little more calories in may just help with the extra energy.

Anyway, love to hear from ya'll.  Thanks!

 Go to a running store and pick up a bunch of different brands and flavors of gels. For runs of those distances a gel at the halfway point goes a long way. You might have to try a few to find ones you like. My favorites brands are GU and Honey Stinger

Won't the gels cause us RNY'ers to dump? I have shied away from them for fear of this. I am new to running but have recently gotten up to a 10K distance and feel that same fatigue beginning to draw in at that point. Any dvice would be great ladies

 If you've dumped before, I'd try the GU at home to see how you tolerate it. Anything new I've added to my training nutrition, I've tried at home to see if it bothered me before bringing it on the trail.

 Here's what I discussed with my NUT: in training for my half-marathon, she recommended that I start trying out higher-carb fruits to test my tolerence. Things like bananas, no-sugar-added dried fruit, granola/cliff/fiber bars, yogurt, cereals, peanut butter, G2. Something like for every hour of running, we're to consume 17g carbs to not hit a wall. She even broke down my nutrition for the day of: 1600 cals total, 100g protein, 65g fat, and 154 g carbs. I nearly freaked out at those numbers but she really stressed that I HAVE TO consume carbs to keep my body going for hours of running. She also stressed pre-hydration, pre-carbs, during carbs, and post-carbs. Good luck!!!

 Thanks!  I'm waiting like 6 weeks for an appt with my NUT so well after my next race.  Today I did 9 miles, I drank a cup of chocolate milk before my run, had G2 in my hydration belt, then consumed 1 gel at mile 4.5.  Since mile 6 is where I usually hit the wall I figured that was enough before to help me out.  I did well with the 9 miles this week, so I think it worked.  Luckily I don't have to really worry about dumping.  I have pretty much upped my carbs to that level as that's the only way I feel like I'm not ready to fall over!