Yeppers. The whole idea that if eating 1800 calories will allow you to lose 1 lb a week, eating 1300 calories will allow you to lose 2 lbs a week just doesn't measure up. I burn, on average 2400 calories a day w/o even exercising. When I was doing a very intense program I was up to 3300 calories expended. I was eating 1900 and thought that was more than enough - after all it was well over 10x my body weight. I wasn't losing anything. When I dropped the exercise for a week and increased calories to 2200-2300 all that fat I had been 'losing' for those 4 weeks fell off in 10 days (8 lbs of it).

All calories, like all carbs, are not created equal. If this were the case we'd be able to simply eat 500 calories less our maintenance level every day in the form of Snickers and Coke Classic and lose a pound a week. It just ain't gonna happen.

Nat