Thursday, May 01, 2008
Lose ten pounds in one week!
I was going through the latest issue of National Geographic Traveler and read an article about a guided trip to the North Pole--the company drops you on a floating island 1 degree from the pole, then you ski the rest of the way, about 70 miles. Doesn't sound too bad, except that because you're on moving ice, those 70 miles can be a lot longer--if you're going one direction and the ice is moving another, it can be like skiing on a treadmill, where you're constantly moving but not moving forward. Add to that the fact that you're dragging a sledge with all of the stuff you need for the week, and scrambling over large boulders of ice, and crossing cracks in the ice over open water (of course the group is also dragging a kayak just in case) and what this amounts to is burning 10,000 calories a day, but you're only taking in 5,000 calories. It takes 7 days to do this trip, giving you a caloric deficit for the week of 35,000 calories--what you need to lose 10 pounds.
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PERFECT! I will do that 6 times in a row and be back on track to normal. Except, I feel fairly sure that this would qualify as trauma, starvation and famine.
Nah, it wouldn't because it's only temporary. But I found some interesting stuff about starvation mode that I'm going to post another day--I started looking into it when someone brought it up on a messageboard. But the short answer is it wouldn't count as starvation/famine/trauma because your BMR wouldn't change and your caloric intake would be well over your BMR, so what you'd be burning would be fat. The people with problems would be people with low body fat to begin with--they'd be losing muscle and would end up weak and shaky. This is why women tend to do well in endurance and survival situations--even the very thin ones start out with a higher percentage of body fat than men.
There have to be easier ways to lose weight!!!!!!!
So, would this be cheaper than a month of Jenny Craig or an equivalent? Aren't those meals about $1,000 a week? haha
You could always go to India like I did. Why go somewhere cold, just go somewhere you can't safely eat. Although when you get back all you will want is steak.
Who's up for Mexico? Oh wait, I would probably drink tequila and eat guacamole all day so that's not a good diet. Hmmmm ...
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