[MikeB]

Steve, you and I concur on the caloric intake however your information is quite different than I have access to on multiple meals per day, metabolism changes etc. Remember for every 1 study you may quote there are probably 2 more that go the other way. I'm lucky to have access to world and olympic level wrestling nutritionists/fitness people as a guideline for my information. I've recently completed my Bronze coaching certification and moving onto my Silver one of the things that we have to concentrate on is nutrition and weight training. The thoughts that I put down concur with the information given to me and the studies that were done to back them up.
Sorry man, I'm going to go with what I know works and continue giving people that information. As with anything fitness there are 500 viewpoints on almost everything.

Boyd the key is you're going to have to make some changes, for me personally if I don't eat every two hours I binge later in the day and end up eating 3-5K calories of crap instead of 2-3K calories of healthy stuff, that may be different for you. I swag'd at 2400 calories but Steve is right, you need to find our your Lean Body Mass (LBM) and calculate your required intake from that, the fat requires no energy to maintain itself.

Mike