Food & Exercise -- 10/30/2005

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Chris Braun - 31 Oct 2005 01:55 GMT

Went hiking today with my friend Mike & his friend Greg in the George
Washington National Forest. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, and a
beautiful hike. It was a 6.5 mile hike with 2200 ft. rise in
elevation. This climb was virtually all in the first 2 miles, which
were pretty strenuous. The rest was an easy 3 miles along the ridge
(along the border between Virginia & West Virginia), with beautiful
views, and then a rather steep downclimb.

Food:

* 7:15 (home): 2 poached eggs on 1 slice whole wheat toast w/ 3 slices
melted f/f cheese & 10g grated parmesan
* 10:00 (just before arriving at the hike starting point): energy bar
* 12:15 (on the ridge): meatloaf sandwich: oat bran English muffin,
102g turkey meatloaf, 2 slices f/f cheese; Power Ade
* 3:45 (on arriving at the bottom): banana
* 4:30 (from convenience store stop on the drive home): 1 pack (1.5
oz.) Ritz bits (miniature Ritz crackers sandwiched around cheesy
filling)
* 7:00 (home): 157g turkey meatloaf w/ 3 slices melted f/f cheese &
catsup

Totals: 1618 calories, 46g fat (26%), 190g carbs (47%), 113g protein
(28%) {Not a lot of calories, given the exercise. A bit heavy on
carbs, but that was appropriate for the climb -- biggest single source
was the Power Ade.}

Exercise: 6.5 mile hike/climb

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

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Beverly - 31 Oct 2005 02:10 GMT

The hike sounds wonderful.

I've been meaning to ask about the turkey meatloaf. Do you make it? If so,
any special recipe?

Beverly

> Went hiking today with my friend Mike & his friend Greg in the George
> Washington National Forest. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, and a
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> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

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Chris - 31 Oct 2005 16:16 GMT

The hike was indeed wonderful :-). Looking at the maps again, we think
we covered more than the 6.5 miles we'd estimated, though -- probably
more like 8.5.

Anyway, yes, I make turkey meatloaf. I don't use a recipe, but here's
more or less what I use -- makes two regular-sized loaves (plenty of
leftovers :-) ):

2-3 lbs. ground turkey (I don't use the one with just breast meat, as I
find it makes the meatloaf a little too dry. Sometimes I include some
sweet Italian turkey sausage, if I can find it in the store. It's a
little higher in calories with this.)
4-6 slices torn-up whole wheat bread (stale bread is fine)
3 eggs
1 small can or jar of sliced mushrooms
some catsup (I just use a healthy squeeze or two from the bottle --
maybe 1/4 cup)
a healthy splash each of Worcestershire sauce & liquid smoke
spices: pepper, minced onion, garlic powder, oregano, basil

Mix up, put in meatloaf pans, bake for an hour at 350 degrees.

Obviously, this can be adapted however one wishes. Lots of people like
veggies like onions and peppers in their meatloaf. I don't, but they'd
work fine.

I have rough nutritional information for this at home. (I figured it
out once, measuring everything I used. Now I just use the same data,
even though I never make it exactly the same way.) If I remember I'll
post it tonight.

Chris
262/130s/130s

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janice - 31 Oct 2005 09:57 GMT

>Went hiking today with my friend Mike & his friend Greg in the George
>Washington National Forest. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, and a
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>(along the border between Virginia & West Virginia), with beautiful
>views, and then a rather steep downclimb.

Sounds wonderful, Chris. I had a lovely 10 mile walk on Saturday. We
don't really have autumn (fall) colour here yet. I wonder if the
forest you were walking in was in colour or whether the trees have
already lost their leaves.

janice
(whose favourite form of exercise is walking)

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Nunya B. - 31 Oct 2005 14:18 GMT

>>Went hiking today with my friend Mike & his friend Greg in the George
>>Washington National Forest. It was an absolutely gorgeous day, and a
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> janice
> (whose favourite form of exercise is walking)

The trees up here have finally lost their leaves though it was much later
because of the dry weather. We went for a 15 mile bike ride through the
woods and it was still lovely. Next weekend we're planning a hike in the
mountains and our final round of golf for the season - until we go south for
vacation this winter. Golf is a little more challenging when the leaves are
all over the ground :)

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Chris - 31 Oct 2005 16:18 GMT

The colors are pretty much at their peak for the years -- still most of
the leaves left. It isn't as good a year for color as some as it has
been very dry, but the sugar maples are gorgeous. Yesterday was
crystal clear -- not a cloud in the sky -- with high temperature around
65 -- pretty much perfect.

Chris
262/130s/130s

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