[kfisherx]

Doug you have already answered your own question over and again. Your body doesn't NEED a break from deficit I'd say. You really are not in that big of a deficit. That said if you have having a hard time with compliance it may be a good thing to do anyway. Diet break isn't just about what your body needs. It is also for your mental well being.

WRT you having a hard time chosing goals, I totally get it even though it is annoying to watch it from afar (Old Guy is showing his displeasure with it I see) LOL! The concept of fat loss is very simple. But YOU have to figure out what do you want to do. Refer again to Nov AARR and the choices that you have for body recomping a, b, c, d. You have to decide how you want to lean between a and b. Do you want to drop the weight as quickly as possible with everything else taking second priority? Then go for the fat loss as quickly as possible plan. If you want to lose fat but want to make sure muscle doesn't go away at all then pick b instead of a. Becuase your bf is pretty high, you have the option of doing a pretty quick fat loss plan 2-3 lbs a week without sacrificing too much mucle. If you can handle the deficit and the bit of muscle loss that will occur, that will get you to your goal the quickest (while still being non-retarded). If that doesn't work for you (for whatever reason) go for a slower rate of loss.

Pretty simple in concept and hard to figure out. But in order to figure it out you really do have to pick a goal (one) and a plan (one) and stick to it long enough to understand what is going on.

On a personal level I feel like you should stop reading all of these diet plans and just learn about nutrition as it pertains to you. How is RFL going to do anything different for you? Most of those plans are designed for people who don't wanna learn about macros, counting cals etc. You are already there nutritionally. You count calories, you get macro distribution. All you have to do is stick to that and figure out what cals work for your current goal. Lyle McDonal says it best when he says that for an overweight person ANY non-retarded plan will work just fine for fat loss.