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Old Fri, Mar-26-04, 06:35
Tornado Tornado is offline
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Plan: Atkins, KISS
Stats: 235/200/183 Male 6' 1
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Progress: 67%
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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LadyBelle's advice is probably the best you can get. Everybody is different and listening to your body and how it reacts is often just as important, if not more so, than all the opinions about ratios, calories, bodyweight etc.

Looking at your history you have already done a great job and well on your way to your goal. You are doing a lot of exercise - two hours a day is a lot - and at that rate anybody should increase their lean bodyweight ratio over time. This is key: With an hour a day at the gym, assuming weights are involved, you will have increased your lean body mass, which affects a number of calculations. Your target weight will be more challenging to attain because, well, basically you are not as fat as you were (Rather blunt way to put it!) You are leaner for the same weight. And your body will be burning more energy as a result of the increased metabolism that comes with more muscle. So your weight loss will slow but this does not neccessarily translate linearly to the rate of fat loss. This is a good thing. You are getting buff!

Be sure not to overdo the exercise. Rest when you need it. Listen to your bod.

My only other comments are that i) LadyBelle's suggestion of a lower protein count seems reasonable and ii) You might like to check out a BMR calculator and add in, say 500-800 calories to work out your daily caloric output. From there you can take off maybe 350 calories a day and use that as your intake guide.
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