[pct-l] Food and hunger

[Timothy Nye]

I always interpreted it as my body saying: "Holy crap, he's not stopping AND he's carrying stuff!" With the natural result of my body then attempting to re-contour to the lightest mode possible in order to ease the strain. Hunger kicks in only after that rebalancing occurs so that necessarily your burning more calories than you take in for quite awhile. I'm rarely hungry the first couple of weeks.

Ironically, your body is performing the equivalent of an internal pack explosion. Once you hit your optimal weight ( what the body thinks it should be not necessarily your idea of what it should be) the weight loss should end. 

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On Jan 25, 2014, at 5:35 PM, "JPL" <jplynch at crosslink.net> wrote:

> I can vouch for that.  It took me a long time and many hikes of bringing 
> back a *lot* of food before it finally dawned on me.
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: marmot marmot
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:26 PM
> To: pct-l @backcountry.net
> Subject: [pct-l] Food and hunger
> 
> Because it has been mentioned lately I want to suggest that you do not 
> overpack food in the beginning Unless you are unusual, hiker hunger does not 
> kick in until you loose a lot of body fat. Even if you do not see yourself 
> as having weigh that you could loose, there is internal fat. The hiker boxes 
> are full of cast off food at each resupply. Test yourself out. It's only 
> maybe 10-11days to Idyllwild from the border and 5 places to buy food or 
> pick up a cooked meal to supplement what you have on your back. Even now I 
> forget and pack too much for the first 3-4 weeks of hiking.  Often altitude 
> takes away hunger also so you could have it happen all over again in the 
> Sierras. I'm always having people who are new on the trail try to "share" 
> food just to get it off their backs. Further up the trail all bets are off. 
> You are having food fantasies. Marmot
> 
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