Originally Posted by
magohn
"5,500-6,000 calories a day" - Yikes
I weigh 280lb and the calorie tracking sites recommend around 2200 cals a day for me to lose slowly. Thats a lot of calories a day! When I was 320lb I believe I was instructed to eat 2500 a day.
What sites told you 5500-6000 a day?
FatSecret.com, MyPlate/DailyPlate, MyFitnessPal, a bunch of others. I was biking 12-15 hours a week and that's usually "very active" in their calculations. I even tried setting the activity section to "sedentary" a bunch of times and ended up with 4,000 calories a day, still utterly ridiculous.