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>maybe their antecedote was wrong?
It's my own anecdote, based on how much I was eating to gain/lose weight when I was competing. My daily intake was about 6-10MJ when I was cutting, and between maybe 14-22MJ when I was putting on weight.
>4000 calories in a day
4000 calories is twice twice the RDI daily total, I'm saying that by being a young man with a higher basal metabolic rate than the average woman and doing a reasonable amount of exercise you can get your total daily expenditure to half that.
>4000 calories in a day is athlete levels of calorie burn
It was 21-27hrs of moderate+ intensity exercise a week but tbqhwyf doing 1-1.5hrs of higher intensity stuff felt way harder (e.g. freestyle wrestling and it's warmups vs. bleh stuff like BJJ or boxing classes) and probably burnt more calories than 4.5hrs of the cringe stuff.
>that's like running 12 miles a day.
100 minutes of moderate intensity exercise a day really isn't a crazy number, if a little higher than I'd say most people should aim for on a weekday.
BMR literally varies by like 2.5x between an average large man and a smaller woman anyway, if you're not a manlet you probably can get to 4k calorie expenditure/day pretty easily (after you've put on muscle).