Obesity....

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

Good catch.

By the way, I just hiked 400 miles, how many calories did that burn? I only lost about 20 lbs, and a fair amount of that was muscle.

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If you actually lost muscle mass you didn't eat enough. According to the chart I linked to, cross-country hiking burns about 400 calories per hour, so if you walked at 2 mph that's 200 hours which would be about 80,000 calories which is probably about a month's worth of meals. How long did it take you?

30 days, and the pace was pretty much 2.5 mph. You're right, I didn't eat enough. I never do on those hikes. When I did the AT back in 89, I dropped from 210 down to 160. That's pretty thin for a 6'3" guy. I couldn't swim any more (I sank), I couldn't hold my arms over my head for more than a few seconds, and I doubt I could have done more than three or four push ups, though I didn't actually try (I was too busy keeping my pants on, though they had fit four months earlier).

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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker

30 days, and the pace was pretty much 2.5 mph. You're right, I didn't eat enough. I never do on those hikes. When I did the AT back in 89, I dropped from 210 down to 160. That's pretty thin for a 6'3" guy. I couldn't swim any more (I sank), I couldn't hold my arms over my head for more than a few seconds, and I doubt I could have done more than three or four push ups, though I didn't actually try (I was too busy keeping my pants on, though they had fit four months earlier).

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Congratulations on being able to do a hike like that! Where was it and what is the AT?