reading the responses reminds me of my friend EJ. He joined my wrestling team in his senior year. During preseason lifting, he was tipping the scale at 210 lbs. By the time the season started he was 200. 10 weeks later, 160. He stopped eating crap and started eating healthy and with a wrestling workout that could burn 600 calories easily, he lost all that weight.
During my wrestling days, I could eat more than almost 4000 kcal a day and still managed to lose tons of weight.
although when the season ended, I kept eating like that for a bit and...well lets say I won the pig award two out of my three seasons. Its who gained the most weight between the end of the season and the banquet- 25 pounds :-)
I always pictured my metabolism as a huge boulder. It takes alot of energy (calories) to start the boulder rolling but to keep it rolling takes significantly less. By that I mean that to keep your metabolism going, you have to eat fruits and vegetables (prefferably veggies) through out the day to keep the metabolism rollin along. I believe kent or someone mentioned something of the same already, not sure, maybe I'm retarded.
I reccommend runing or skating. Keep in mind, to make something a habit, you gotta do it for at least two weeks. Eat healthy!
Good luck to all!!