I'm currently eating 5,000 calories a day and I weigh 255 pounds, which is basically the same weight as when I was eating 2,800 calories per day.

Let me say that again.

I've almost doubled my calories and my weight has barely moved.

If you think that doesn't make any sense, then stick around because I'm going to explain

exactly how that is possible, exactly what I am eating, exactly how it's changed my workouts,

and what it means for you you for how to think about your

calories, metabolism, and building muscle. So for those of you who are avid listeners of the

podcast, you will know last month in February, I took a vacation to Turks and Caicos, and

before that vacation, I was on a calorie deficit.

So my calorie deficit was 2,800 calories.

And I know a lot of you were like, oh, my God, I'd love to have 2,800 calories.

I get it.

That is the perks of being 6-4 and a high metabolism.

Okay.

So when I finished that, I then went into the vacation sitting right around 245 pounds.

There was some fluctuation in my weight.

Maybe some days I was 241, some days was 246, but somewhere around that range.

I went on the vacation. I enjoyed myself to the fullest. I ate what I wanted. I went back for

seconds. I had desserts. I did not do a calorie deficit. So when I got back from vacation, I was expecting my

weight to be up. And it was. It was right around 254 pounds. So you could say I gained roughly

10 pounds of weight. I do not think all of that was body fat. Actually, I know all of that was not body fat.

I would say maybe four, three, four pounds, maybe was body fat. And the rest was just stored

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