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In the first 40 or so days on the trail in 2003 I lost about 12 - 14 lbs ...but then is started to melt away faster than I could put it back on. By the time I got to Harpers Ferry I had lost about 38 lbs - - fortunately that's about where I levelled off.
Needless to say that once I got back home it took less than 3 months to regain everything I had lost ...and then some !
'Slogger