rebel bunny's Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 i always thought we were an active family, but since we started geocaching (ok weve been a bit gung-ho) both our children have gone down a pant size (luckily i didn't throw out their jeans from last year) hubby has lost 10lbs and i've lost 7. did anyone else notice weight loss when you started ? Quote Link to comment
+Okiebryan Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Oh yeah... 8 lbs and one pant size since August. The funny thing is, this is usually the time of year I am putting weight on for winter! Quote Link to comment
+Kabuthunk Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 I've noticed that the little bit of a belly that I'd been growing has since shrunk back to basically flat. Then again, it's probably both sad and pathetic that I'm losing weight, since I'm basically a twig at 130 pounds at best anyway Well... maybe I'll grow some muscle and put on weight that way with geocaching Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 On the other hand, I've gained twenty pounds since I took up geocaching. Oh, well. Quote Link to comment
+Sioneva Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Thirty pounds since January... I think I've noticed a bit of a change. Yes. Quote Link to comment
+yorelken Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Unfortunately, I also took up pub lunches with my geocaching partners. So far I'm holding even. Quote Link to comment
+ThePropers Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 I've had to add an extra meal to maintain my obesity. Quote Link to comment
+fishingfools Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 yes, yes i have Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Didn't lose a single pound. I did however gain stamina, the ability to hike further, especially vertically and am in better shape than I've been in a long time. Well..until this summer when caching had to go by the wayside. Quote Link to comment
+ThePropers Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Didn't lose a single pound. I did however gain stamina, the ability to hike further, especially vertically and am in better shape than I've been in a long time. Well..until this summer when caching had to go by the wayside. I noticed the same thing the other day when I was doing a huge elevation change over a short distance. My stamina has improved tremendously. However, I am about ready to start my winter hibernation cycle where the most exercise I get is complaining about having to snowblow the driveway (I do so much complaining that I probably burn more calories doing that than actually doing the driveway). Quote Link to comment
+mtn-man Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 On the other hand, I've gained twenty pounds since I took up geocaching. Oh, well. Yeah, I found Frappuccinos about a year after I started geocaching. Have lost about half of it back though recently. Quote Link to comment
+Acid Rain Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 I think I lost some distance stamina, but gained elevation stamina. Before there was no motivation to climb a summit. Now I will climb just about anything that doesn't require equipment. Quote Link to comment
+NorthWes Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Lost weight and gained stamina. Also developed an uncanny ability to successfully navigate via GPS on inadequately-marked road systems in far-off exotic lands (like New Jersey...). Friends & family are now tolerant of my wierd stops for photos of benchmarks, as long as I can find the nearest outlet mall / good hotel / great restaurant with my handy Garmin mapping software (my wife says I have to sprint to the marks to save time - thus keeping my stamina up while doing 'drive-up' benchmarks... ) Quote Link to comment
+hikerT Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 I suffered a back injury at work in Jan. 2004, and it keeps acting up, and have bone spurs in my foot. Two really painful reasons to keep me on the couch. I have been caching (almost daily)for 2 months now and have lost at least 10lbs, and have had absolutely NO back or foot pain. Have not taken pain pills since I started, and I was taking 3 a day. The water I am guzzling is replacing the Diet Pepsi. So yep, I notice a big difference. Quote Link to comment
+Harry Dolphin Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 On the other hand, I've gained twenty pounds since I took up geocaching. Oh, well. Yeah, I found Frappuccinos about a year after I started geocaching. Have lost about half of it back though recently. I used to hike longer distances. Twelve mile hikes. I've even backpacked almost half the AT (in ten years). Swift Run Gap to Pinkham Notch. Now, I've settled for two days a week of five miles of hiking for caches. And I've gone from 185 lbs to 205 lbs as a consequence. Oh, well. Circumstances have changed, and I'm a bit older now. And I hated the Presi Transverse. Madison Springs Hut to Pinkham Notch is not hiking. Miles of climbing over sharp boulders. Not my cup of tea. The Presi Traverse is is 26.3 miles. It took us 35 hours of hiking. We did bag seven of the 4000 foot mountains in New Hampshire on that trip! But, it took us four hours to hike the one mile from Madison Springs Hut to the peak of Madison! With the promises of Wildcat Ridge and Mahoosuc Notch being even worse. My sister (and New England backpacking companion) did not enjoy our assault on the Hundred Mile Wilderness. We accomlished 48.6 miles of our 75 mile planned hike before she decided that she just wasn't having fun. We made it from Daicy Pond to Jo-Mary Road, and hitched a ride back to Millinocket. Don't get me wrong. It isn't geocaching that cause the weight gain. I was more the decline in exercise. Hey, I'm growing older. But! I have gained twenty pounds since I started geocaching. And it wasn't the frappuchinos Quote Link to comment
nonaeroterraqueous Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 We haven't lost an ounce since we started, thankfully. However, we do tend to find ourselves eating more junk simply by being on the road longer than we expected and getting the munchies. We both lost quite a bit of weight before we discovered geocaching, and I'm doing my best to get my wife to gain some of it back. Quote Link to comment
+Snoogans Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 I lost 50 pounds right off when I started cachin' in 2003. I've pretty much kept it off too. At the time, I proclaimed myself to be the Jared of Geocaching. I was pretty much living off of Chic-fil-a & Taco Bell at the time too, so I figured that I could get an advertising contract and make a million bucks like the real Jared. Quote Link to comment
+geochicken Posted November 1, 2006 Share Posted November 1, 2006 Nope. When I come home from cache runs I am thirsty and tend to drink mucho cerveza. Quote Link to comment
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