Although my weight has stablizied now, I dropped 20 lbs in the first 4 or 5 months of eating a paleo diet and I was not overweight from a BMI chart. I was 195 lbs @ 74". I was eating way more calories than I was using based on what I thought I knew about matabolism. There seems to be some flaws with the thermo-dynamic theory of weight management. I do not eat as much now as I did when I first started eating paleo but still 2-3 lbs of meat, eggs, vegitables, fruits and fat supplements everyday. Most people think I am a pretty heavy eater but I don't know what that amounts to in calories. I also have recently changed jobs and have been sedentary for the last 2 months. No weight gain, however. I had a physical before I started eating Paleo and had 24% body fat and after eating paleo for 9 months my body fat dropped to 13%. That would indicate that I gained a little lean mass and lost 21 lbs of fat. Wayne >> >>I'm really, really baffled! Unless there is something odd going >>wrong with your metabolism, I can't see why you should lose weight on >>2500 calories a day. That's loads!!! > >It is a lot, but it doesn't strike me as that unusual -- the "FitDay" >program I use to track my diet estimates my maintenance calories at about >3200, and that's about right based on my experience. >