[pct-l] Burning Calories

[brick at fastpack.com (Brick Robbins)]

At 09:03 AM 10/2/03, Richard wrote:
>1 LB OF BODY weight (fat?) is about 3200 cal if I recall
>correctly...anyone have a definitive number?

I went from 180# to 150#  carrying 5000Cal per day, and hiking about 30 
miles, with a base pack wt of 12#. That did NOT count what I stuffed in my 
face in towns.

After doing my meal planning, and looking at what I was using as food, I 
figured that 5000Cal weighed in at about 1kg, or ( 2.2# ). If you lived 
entirely off pure fat (9Cal/g) you could get that down to 0.555 kg, or 1.2#.

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Brick Robbins

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