My Life & Body Transformation: Fri 10/9 - Tue 10/13 - Appalachian Trail Hike in the Great Smoky Mountains

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Fri 10/9 - Tue 10/13 - Appalachian Trail Hike in the Great Smoky Mountains

Hiked for 5 days on the Appalachian Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains. Incredible trip and experience. I packed and carried everything I needed for those 5 days, including food, water, shelter and clothes. For food, I carried about 2 pounds of food per day, totaling around 3,500 calories. I ate basically the same thing every day. Macro breakdown was for a day was:

		Prot	Carb	Fat	Cal
TOTALS:	Grams	171	434	116	3,464
	Calories	682	1734	1042	3,458
	Percent	20%	50%	30%	`

The 5 section hikes were as follows:
Day1 Newfound Gap to Double Spring Gap Shelter. 10.8 miles in ~8 hours.
Day2 Double Spring Gap Shelter to Derrick Knob Shelter. 11.1 miles in ~7 hours.
Day3 Derrick Knob Shelter to Mollies Ridge Shelter. 12 miles in ~8.5 hours.
Day4 Mollies Ridge Shelter to Fontanna Dam Shelter. 11.1 miles in ~7.5 hours.
Day5 Fontanna Dam Shelter to Yellow Creek Mountain Road. 7.5 miles in ~6 hours.

We drove to Newfound Gap and parked the car. Then we hiked for 5 days to Yellow Creek mountain Road and had a shuttle pick us up and drive us back to Newfound Gap to get the car and drive home.

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A little about my journey...

Hi, my name is Kip. On July 24th, 2011 I made a decision to change my life. At the time I weighed 250 pounds, was sedentary, my blood pressure was 170/110 and I was already on a max dose of BP medication to control it. I was well on my way to turning 40 and having a heart attack. This blog is about what I’m currently doing to improve my health and my journey to get my life and health back under control to get to where I am 9 months after starting (Apr 2012) - which is 170 lean pounds, no blood pressure meds and a new outlook on life.

I decided to start this blog for 2 reasons. First, it's a record where I can look back to see what’s working and what isn’t so I can make improvements. Second, a lot of people have asked me what I've done to transform my body, so hopefully it can help someone else glean some helpful information they can incorporate into their lives to make positive impactful changes. So, here it is. Since I'm just starting this blog 9 months in, I'll post a few blogs to recap in more detail where I was and how I got here. Going forward I'll be posting workouts and training/diet/nutrition information I think others can benefit from. I didn’t re-invent the wheel, so I’ll be referencing materials I use along the way. Below there's a picture taken shortly after a body fat test in May 2013.