This Former Marine Hiked Appalachian Trail - Before And After Pic Are Crazy!

non.sari · Post time 25-10-2014 10:34 PM

For the past 5 months, former Marine Gary Sizer made his way up the Appalachian Trail, which runs from Georgia to Maine.

This week, Sizer posted pictures of himself on Reddit before starting his journey and after completing it. He doesn't even look like the same person.

Here is Gary Sizer in all his glory before and after his adventure.

Sizer says he burned between 5,000 and 6,000 calories a day on the trail. He ate throughout the day while hiking because of the exercise.

The real treats were days where he was "zeroing." That is, hiking zero miles. On those days, he binged on pretty much any and all unhealthy, fatty foods that he could get his hands on. Sizer described his nutrition during the trip as a "five month cycle between starvation and binge eating."

My nutrition was atrocious. It was a five month cycle between starvation and binge eating.

On the trail, I'd typically have:

Breakfast: Two pop tarts and an instant coffee with a Carnation Instant Breakfast mixed in.

All Day: I was continuously eating clif bars, snickers, twix, cheetos, trail mix and beef jerky. And I coated it all with peanut butter or Nutella whenever possible.

Dinner: Usually some version of the Knorr pasta side with a package of tuna and a few ounces of instant mashed potatoes mixed in to thicken the gruel. I'd pair that with a whole wheat tortilla onto which I had smeared a thick coating of cream cheese, mayonnaise, or both. Sometimes I'd eat a few ounces of Gouda or cheddar, but all that stuff's heavy.

I'd get all this stuff while in town. The AT takes you near a small town every 3-5 days, and generally I'd hitchhike to the nearest grocery store or gas station and get as much of those things as I could. If I was "zeroing" (staying in town, doing zero miles that day) I'd have the biggest, most calorie rich meals I could find. Cheeseburgers, beer, ice cream, fries, wings, pancakes... all in absurd quantities. I was burning 5000-6000 calories per day.

That is one heck of an exercise program. Good on Gary for sticking to it and completing the adventure of a lifetime. Maybe we will start hiking instead of going to the gym...

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