The burning lets you know it's working. Yup, when my hunger drive keeps going, I know I've hit a good one. When I feel like eating every hour I know I'm on track. It was impossible to gain weight when I had this manual labor job and was lifting and going to martial arts classes. I would go through a picknick family sized cooler of food a day. Only 70% was healthy food too. Half my lunches with the fellas were 2 tripple whoppers and fries and a half gallon of whole milk. Easily scratched 7500 kcal a day some of those days. I miss that truely hungry feeling. Proud of ya Aaron. It's hard to do as we get older and even more so with you having the little man and basically 3 jobs of work and playing soccer. Thanks for the positive words. I am so cranked into my schedule, I am almost dependent on my work outs. Still slowly dropping a little weight here and there. Speaking of jobs, considering being a manager for a DJ I know. Wouldn't be too much, but we will see.