Female Asiatic elephants have an average weight of 6,000 lb and males have an average weight of 12,000 lbs.

A circus elephant weighed 14,850 lbs.

African forest elephants weighs 6,000-13,000 lbs...

male African bush elephants weight 8,800-14,000 lbs and the female weighs 5,000-7,700 lb.

If one pound of body fat equals 3,500 calories and I need to lose 100 pounds...

then my "elephant" is that I must burn 350,000 calories to lose 100 pounds of body fat to reach my goal weight of 125 pounds or approximately 1/2 my body weight.

How big is YOUR elephant?

And if the best way to eat an elephant is to eat it one bite at a time