Backpacking
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2014 11:56 am
I recently started the McDougall diet after many years of being a vegetarian, and I can already say that I will never go back. In just three weeks of eating this way the moderate acne that has plagued my skin for about seven years (since entering high school) has almost completely vanished, and I look forward to parting ways with the expensive Proactiv system.
Starting this summer I intend on doing a great deal of backpacking, leading up to my goal of hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2015. It is generally recommended that backpackers eat about 3,000 to 4,000 calories a day to stay healthy on long trails like this. I contribute the skin related benefits I have been experiencing to my low consumption of fats and so would like to continue cutting them out, but I am having a hard time brainstorming vegan foods that are very caloric, relatively convenient and light weight, and low in oil and fat.
I guess that my question for you is if you think it is important to continue to watch fat consumption when engaging in such strenuous physical activities, or if it would be more reasonable to add in a lot of nuts and seeds to meet calorie requirements more easily.
Thank you, and I hope this is the right place for my question!
Starting this summer I intend on doing a great deal of backpacking, leading up to my goal of hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2015. It is generally recommended that backpackers eat about 3,000 to 4,000 calories a day to stay healthy on long trails like this. I contribute the skin related benefits I have been experiencing to my low consumption of fats and so would like to continue cutting them out, but I am having a hard time brainstorming vegan foods that are very caloric, relatively convenient and light weight, and low in oil and fat.
I guess that my question for you is if you think it is important to continue to watch fat consumption when engaging in such strenuous physical activities, or if it would be more reasonable to add in a lot of nuts and seeds to meet calorie requirements more easily.
Thank you, and I hope this is the right place for my question!