db wrote on Mar 3^rd, 2011 at 7:16am:

... Nutrition never crosses my mind. If it's cold I eat more. I'll eat candy on trips I'd never even consider eating at home. For some reason I have a taste for it up there and I'll bring a little of different things.

This comment from DB resonates with me.  I am damn impressed with the very articulate and detailed thoughts from J_S and S_D in this thread.  But while I think I eat pretty healthy while canoeing and in "civilized" life,  I just don't think much about it, and my body doesn't seem that sensitive to what I eat, or don't eat.  I paddle with friends who are much more easily affected if they don't get enough of something..., but I'm not.  Amazing how our bodies are so different with regard to their tolerances.  

I am not overweight.  I exercise moderately.  I eat to live, not live to eat, no matter where I am.  

prouboy