Stop eating!

This paragraph from an NY Times article about American diets kind of shocks me:

The study, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and reported in the current edition of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, found that in 1971 women ate 1,542 calories on average, compared with today's 1,877, while men went from 2,450 calories a day to 2,618. Those numbers dwarf the government's recommendations of 1,600 calories a day for women and 2,200 for men.

2618 calories for men? Holy crap. I try to keep my calories to a 2000 a day limit, and this is coming from somebody who used to weight 250lbs. I'm a big boy, but by the government's statistics, not only do I not eat enough but I'm 600 calories below average. How does this compare to your diet?