[dougz]

Doug, are you following a specific diet or are you just eating at a deficit with information about macros culled from various newsletters, articles, books, etc.?

Like I said earlier, I started by just eating at a 500 cal deficit (2700), measuring my food with a digital scale, ala Leigh Peele's Fat Loss Troubleshoot..

No specific diet, as far as meal plans, per se....

Just eating "clean", lots of fruits and veggies, and no starches unless after a work out..

That's been working great, and I've lost 20 lbs..

Then, after being stuck for two weeks or so I came on here asking whether perhaps I might get things moving downwards again by tweaking my macros (anything to avoid cardio LOL).. Maybe less carbs, I thought..

And so I learned via this thread about Alan's newsletter, and I read there about his suggested macro breakdown for linear intake, moderate activity (P= 1-1.3g per lbs of bw, C= 1-1.5g, F= .4-.5), which for me, using a target weight of 190, and the lowest carb modifier (1g per lbs), and the highest protein and fat modifiers, gives me 2600 cals a day, and a ratio of F 33%,C 29%, P 38% ..

So I've been TRYING to stick to that..

Hardest part has been getting enough carbs in, as I've been trying to stick to just fruits and veggies, hardly any starches (ala Precision Nutrition)..

And let's just say fruit and veggies aren't the most carb-dense of foods..

NROL has plenty of weight on the bar.

Well, that's relative, of course..

I can squat 255 lbs 3x5 times, or I can squat 155 lbs (or whatever it was when I was doing the NROL break in, I can't remember) 3x15 times..

People (here, and on other forums) were saying I was better off lifting more weight less times..

Are they right? That's still up for discussion..

Could I have eventually progressed to the point where I was lifting 255 lbs 10 times? Presumably, yes..

it wasn't thread crapping, it was simply a fact.

No offense, but one-sentence, non-constructive facts and thread craps aren't mutually exclusive, IMHO..