[pct-l] Burning Calories

[calliger at infolane.com (Richard)]

Chocolate chip cookies, All Flavours of Ice Cream and
Chocolate Candy bars have 0 (zero) calories when you
travel.   <g>  Everyone knows that. 

Richard

At 09:54 AM 10/2/03 -0700, Brick Robbins wrote:
>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#.
>
>--
>Brick Robbins
>
>All that is gold does not glitter,
>not all those who wander, are lost....
>
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