Postcards from the Trail

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Location:Post Thru-hike musings
9/20/04
Today’s Miles: 2,174.1

Although not as well known as some of the more famous diets that make it to hardcover, the Appalachian Trail Diet just may be the most effective path to shedding those unwanted pounds. The AT Diet allows you to eat anything and everything you want.  Actually, it demands it.

Words like sacrifice, deprivation, and denial are replaced by pig-out, gorge yourself, and AYCE (all you can eat).  Imagine putting an end to calorie counting or portion control?  Say farewell to fat-free anything and hello to triple chocolate fudge cake.  What diet routinely asks you to polish off an entire half gallon of rich, full-fat ice cream?

As a devotee of the AT Diet you’ll lose your inhibitions that have plagued you your whole life.  When asking for seconds once triggered a mental wrestling match, you’ll now think nothing of visiting the buffet counter three, four, even five times.  Why, you’ll never cower from a carbohydrate again.

So magical is the AT Diet that as you move from main course to main course, you’ll not only drop loads of pounds, you’ll build muscle!  A slimmer, fitter, more beautiful you is just one of the fringe benefits.  Your skin will exhibit a healthy, sun-filled glow, and your lung’s breathing capacity will double.  Those days of listless energy and feeling winded from getting off the sofa will be a distant memory.

Amazingly, the AT Diet also lets its followers travel.  Big sky mountain vistas and cozy meandering trails engulfed by the spicy scent of evergreen will be there to greet you. Yes, a heaven of culinary gluttony awaits you, and all you must do is don a backpack and walk! How easy is that!?

So, say hello to the AT Diet. Who wouldn’t want to eat any and everything one wants while still losing forty pounds and seeing the world?  Those thirty-inch waist trousers and that size 2 dress are just over the mountain.