Thanks everyone for the encouragement. It really hasn't been easy but I suspect that if it was easy then everyone would be doing it. The truth is though that I am getting amazing results. I weighed in yesterday and took my bf and I am now at 22% bf with a weight of 130 lbs. I started just over 6 weeks ago at 31% and 134.5. By my calculations that is @13 lbs of fat lost and @9 lbs of muscle gained. I think that is a rate of 2.1 lbs per week. Not too bad but obviously a bit too much as I did end up with a bit of a crash. During this time I was only consuming around 1400 kcals a day with very low fat.
The fantastic news is now with all this data I can do some Math and come to some real accurate numbers of what I am actually burning in cals a day. By my calculations I am burning an astounishing 2480 kcals a day with my current work out schedule. I am sure as more of my body turns to muscle this will change somehwat but I feel pretty confident on these numbers. So that means that if I continue to strive for the 1700 kcals a day that will keep me at a 1.x lbs a week change and will keep me feeling more energized as well.
It ain't exactly what is recommended in NROL but I know it will serve me well this upcoming month until I've had time to adjust. I have about 3 months of this rate of loss before I will have to turn it around and start gaining so I am preparing for this mentally and physiclly in the next 3 months. At some point I am going to have to get into the 2400kcal range if I want to beef back into the strong and beautiful body that I want to ultimately have.
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