> As a male you would also consume 2000 calories just doing nothing, so that puts you at 4000 calories in that day you would have consumed. So that's not that excessive.

Thats my point 4k calories is not much. Its super easy to consume it 4k calories, its a shit load of effort to burn 4k calories.

Check out this, eat and burn 10k calories in a day. You can guess which one is harder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZTz9LDFg1E