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PCT Section I, 24th to 27th August 2006

Food

My food experiment failed miserably.  I quickly ran out of energy but was never hungry.  A large part of this can be attributed to not giving myself time to acclimate to the altitude, although I knew this would happen and packed fewer calories accordingly.  I think the food was way to high in fat content when what I really needed was easily/quickly  metabolized carbohydrates, oh well.  Even though I allocated 2280 calories per day I only consumed 1760 calories per day.  Based on the distances I was covering I was probably burning over 5000 calories per day.

Here is the food I brought for each day, quite frankly it doesn't seem like much.

Calories, Ounces, Unit, Item
360, 3.4, 1 packet, Milkman powdered milk
440, 4.1, 1 packet, Milkman plus 4 tablespoons Ovaltine
140, 1.3, 1 bar, Trader Joe's (TJ's) Blueberry
140, 1.2, 1 bar, TJ's Chocolate Chip Granola
280, 2.1, 1 bar, Snickers
400, 2.5, 1.5 cups, Frito Lay Corn Chips
130, 1.4, 2 tablespoons, Good and Plenty Candy
220, 1.5, 0.25 cups, Peanut M&M's
170, 1.0, 0.25 cups, TJ's Roasted and Salted Almonds

2280, 18.4; total calories and ounces per my food spreadsheet however when I actually weighed all of the items the total was 20.5 ounces per day, including the packaging you see in the photo.  Some, but not all, of the extra weight can be attributed to using "heaping" 1/4 cups of M&M's and almonds.

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