"I decided to start trying to count calories. This would allow me to eat whatever food I wanted, whenever I wanted, as long as it kept track of the calories. I went online and found a calculator that could tell me an estimate of the number of calories my body needed every day to stay at the same weight. At my weight of over 375 pounds, I needed 3,400 calories to maintain my current weight, so I decided to eat at a 1,000 calorie deficit, which was 2,400 calories a day, which would allow me to lose around 2 pounds a week. What I ate for those 2,400 calories was pretty much whatever I felt like eating, as long as it was within my calorie limits. This included pizza, burgers, potato chips, French fries, candy, fast food, etc. My only rules were, stay in a caloric deficit, and if I can’t count it, don’t eat it."