[missjane]

Jenny, I think everyone is different. I happened to lose 20 lbs of fat doing NROL4W. I was following a very low carb diet for the first 5 months of the year while doing NROL4W. Then, I hit a plateau. So, now I have been tracking calories very closely and I have added carbs slowly back in. The weight loss has picked right back up. I have also switched to Power Training by Coach Dos. So, I have continued my lifting all along and have continued to lose fat all along. This doesn't mean it will work this way for everyone. You'll need to see if the heavy lifting and all the other exercise you do causes you to need much more food for recovery -- too much. If that happens, then you will be overeating and can gain. For me, that didn't happen, as evidenced by the scale.

Keep in mind that my weight loss during NROL4W was slow..about a lb a week, with many days that the weight didn't move at all. I just kept plugging away. Now that I've really been monitoring my calories and KNOW I am in a good deficit, the scale is moving more regularly.

I consider everything I do an experiment until I hit on what works for ME. Same goes for you. You'll have to see what works and go for it.