Yes - this is about as far as you could get from the aims and ambitions of members here.
...But I am doing a "challenge" hill walk on Monday.
It is only six miles and is about double what I do regularly in "training".
...But I have been losing weight for about a year - and my glycogen reserves are probably depleted (and I did a 45-hour fast last week).
...and I am seventy this month, and I was disabled for five years up till last September.
As I am at my target weight, I put on four pounds before the fast - and lost it, and still lost a pound over the week... so, I expect to put on four pounds or so this week.
This Sunday is Maintainers' weigh-day... so I will have some explaining to do!
When I cycled 760 miles in 90 hours... I gave up trying to lose weight a week or two before the event!
Hidden : If I top-up my glycogen reserves, how much weight will I put on?
If a pound of fat is 3,500 calories, and our glycogen reserves are a maximum of 2,000 calories, if I depleted my glycogen by 50%, I would only need about half a pound of fat to top it up?
If the energy densities of glycogen and fat are similar, and each gram of glycogen retains 3 grams of water, this would result in a weight gain of two pounds?
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