Have you ever ever been on a backpacking journey and never had an urge for food? Even in case you’re mountain climbing 15 to twenty miles a day?
It’s irritating as a result of you realize you ought to be hungry, and you realize want vitality to hike the following day, however you possibly can’t carry your self to dig in at time for supper.
“We are able to by no means eat what I take…simply not hungry. I eat extra sitting at my desk at work than when mountain climbing 15-20 miles a day on the AT”
There are 3 explanation why you possibly can lose your urge for food on a backpacking journey:
- Totally different Consuming Schedule
- Totally different Meals
- Much less Free Time
Totally different Consuming Schedule
If in case you have a hard and fast routine of meal serving occasions at residence, it could possibly be that your physique and thoughts will not be acclimated to your new backpacking schedule in case you eat at a distinct time, particularly throughout the first few days of your hike. For those who’re like most individuals, and you’ll solely take quick 1 and 2-night backpacking journeys, you may by no means get used to the modified schedule. For those who can keep out longer than just a few days, my guess is that your physique will finally acclimate to the schedule change and also you’ll be hungry once more when dinner is served.
Totally different Meals
It is perhaps that you just favor regular meals over industrial backpacking meals or the type that you just put together FBC type. I’ve largely given up gave up on shopping for freeze-dried or dehydrated backpacking meals and bringing the identical meals on journeys that I are inclined to eat at residence, like cheese, crackers, bread, nuts, granola, tuna fish, rice… simply common meals, so there’s not any “adaption” required.
Much less Free Time
For those who’re sitting at work and munching on meals, it’s since you both have free time or you possibly can multi-task. Strolling is much extra lively than sitting nonetheless and also you may simply must take longer breaks to snack than you do as we speak.
A few years in the past, I might by no means cease for breaks throughout the day and consequently, I ate sparingly between breakfast and dinner. As we speak, I make some extent to load up the again pocket of my backpack with about 1,000 energy price of snacks every morning earlier than I go away camp. I take lengthy breaks each few hours to relaxation and absorb my environment and I really feel relaxed sufficient to munch as a result of I’m not in a rush to rise up and stroll.
