4,000 calories daily is what I ate to lose body fat.

Say what man?!!! How do you know how many calories your body burns daily? I'm asking you reading this. Unless you're hooked up to a machine daily, you don't.  The number is always changing as your body composition changes daily.  I'm a big proponent of fully nourishing your body nutritiously when beginning a lifestyle transformation and as a standard practice.   I also believe in openly sharing the most valuable health information.

 Misunderstood Myth #1: Eat less calories, burn more is the way to go.  At 425 lbs, 4 years ago, I began working out 5-6 days a week, and Daily, I consumed 4,000 (yes 4 thousand) nutritious calories including Healthy Fats throughout 6-8 meals. Body fat was my primary physical goal so I took in 10 calories per poundI of body weight. I didn't count calories, 4250 would have been the exact number, I got within a range that averaged 4000 daily. I lost weight, my body responded, with more energy and physical results, body fat loss and muscle support/gain.

This isn't new information.  What's blocking many who are overweight, obese, or super-obese from knowing, trying, and successfully implementing this for themselves?  Fear of the less than accepted recommendation? Or that it contradicts a widely known belief (falsehood) that has been held for a lifetime? Or it's beyond radical thinking in being twice as many calories of the standard "based on a %daily values on a 2,000 calorie diet" on every nutrition label.

Or lastly, is it that we want healthy change in our lives like never before and we'll do anything to get it, which ultimately means, working out way too much to a number on a machine, consuming less calories, and blindly believing this method is productive.  And then affirming this by thinking, this toughing it, what the real success stories take. My low energy and high irritability are necessary to achieve the weight loss I've gotten time and time again. But this time, it will be different.

I know how this feels; desperation, frustration, motivational will power that is unstoppable for a period of time then tapped out. I've been there, and I've tried it all yo-yo'ing around 1000 lbs in 30 years of dieting.   That takes a weight of the world like toll on one mentally and physically. I'm writing this to educate, help, and stir loose any beliefs that are hurting our health, morale, and planet.  I'm an expert at getting the body to respond with results. Every single body is different and requires a separate successful progression that will be adjusted and advanced along the way.  Keep on rocking all, all the best energy to everyone. Live & love your life!