Bushwalking frequency and weight change?

[photohiker]

Here's an interesting question raised by another post:

Has your weight changed significantly since you started bushwalking, and how often do you bushwalk?

BW in the questions is an abbreviation for BushWalk.

We, as a community of Bushwalkers with an interest in bushwalking might have some interesting statistics to share.

[photohiker]

Need more votes!

13 isn't enough, but the spread is pretty much even so far.

[Tortoise]

Hey photohiker,

I can't really answer, as I started 37 years ago, and my weight has changed a lot up and down in those years for reasons apart from bushwalking.

However, bushwalking has stopped me from becoming the size of a small house. I rely on multi-day walks to keep my weight in check. (I do them for plenty of other reasons too, of course.) I'm completely satisfied with the food I take with me, limited though it is, and I crave nothing. I've had lots of multi-day walks this summer, and my weight is now almost ideal, for the first time in about 30 years.

So there is a very significant relationship for me between weight and bushwalking, and 'none of the above' feels wrong.

[photohiker]

Hi Tortoise,

I knew I would miss several options. Can't change the selections though, it would wipe out the existing results.

Probably, looking at the big picture, you're in the "Stable" or "fallen" categories.

Need more votes!