Exercises like squats and deadlifts and all the one-legged exercises are focusing on the largest muscles in your body, your legs. Lou talked about what happens to your muscles when you do a lot of cardio (and I might butcher this, since I don't have the book in front of me, so someone can fix it): the endurance muscle fibers are given preferential treatment for development over the strength-focused muscle fibers. Now that you're lifting heavy with those muscles, the strength-focused muscle fibers are being built up, and the strength-focused fibers take up a larger volume compared to the endurance fibers.
What did the calculations in the book say for your workout and non-workout days? Most of fat loss comes from the nutrition side. You seem to be doing a lot of moving through the week, so you might actually need to eat more than 1800 cals and then see from there what can be cut back. It seems counter-intuitive, but as the book frequently pointed out, sometimes you have to eat more to lose more.
And you know, I was looking over the program last night after I had looked at several logs of guys on NROL. The "Fat Loss" workouts in that book looks mostly similar to our Stage 7. I know we're women, so when we hear of a new "exercise program," we immediately think of fat loss. But the more I look at and work with this program, I'm thinking that that isn't really Alwyn's goal. His goal is to make us stronger and more confident with what our bodies can do. Only then does he throw us into an extreme fat-targeting workout (3x15-25! w/ 30s rest!), when we're stronger and can 1) make it through the whole workout and 2) lift weights that make the workout worth our while.
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