Re: Ever get a bruised knee bone from doing a long hike?

Dennis,

Thanks!

Last October I started doing Intermittent Fasting (see my Google Profile
for tons of links, I'd start with Eat-Stop-Eat and Fast-5) and lost 35
pounds in less than 4 months in the easiest diet I ever found and did my
JMT hike at 162 pounds this year.  It did help but it did not prevent my
problem.

I still do intermittent fasting (the Fast-5 diet where you only eat (as
much as you want) for a 6 hour period in a day--you're fasting 18 hours a
day in other words)) on work days (I still work).  On the JMT though I ate
5-6 times a day throughout the day though.

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On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Dennis Phelan <[email protected]>wrote:

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>
> I never had knee problems until a few years ago when I had to hike down a
> 4000 foot drop in 3 miles.  My knees were so sore I could hardly walk.  I
> thought I was going to have to be hauled out by the forest service.  I
> still get sore knees when I do long down hill slopes, but walking on the
> flat or climbing doesn't bother them.  I am afraid that being 67 years old
> and 20 pounds overweight may have something to do with this (don't like to
> admit this).  I have been advised the best thing I can do is exercise a lot
> and keep the muscles around my knees as strong as possible (and lose the 20
> pounds).
>
> Good luck and welcome to the old guy sore knee club :-)
>
> Dennis
>