If I only had 2000 calories a day, I wouldnt be doing this WOE too much longer. I would CONSTANTLY be hungry. One 12 ouce ribeye is almost 1000 calories, then you have breakfast with eggs and bacon/sausage you have 5-600 more...add in the Olive oil for your salad and you are WAY over 2000 calories.

Im sorry, but I have read it 100 times, it is 10-12 times your weight, not your GOAL weight. Your calories decrease as your weight does. That makes a hell of a lot more sense. Your calories decrease because your appetite decreases. If Im wrong about this, Im man enough to say "I was wrong". Besides, we dont even need to "count" them. Just eat.