No offense at all! I am actually on low carbs...about 100. I refeed on additional carbs about once a week because staying at 1,400 - 1,500 calories a day and trying to train on top of that is impossible. I'm a 47 year old female and it's not the same for us as it is for men to lose fat, watch the cortisol from dieting too hard etc. Additionally, If I lower my calories at the same time as adding a compound theres no way to truly know what the compound is doing as opposed to a diet change. I was at maintenance calories before SR and I wanted to continue that so I knew what the compound was capable of. I'd actually be happy with recomp, fat loss or muscle building. I need it all. So I figured continue to do the best I knew how with my diet and one of those goals would be met since SR seems to be so flexible.
Interesting is that when I was on LGD I didn't lower my calories but actually raised them a tad to keep up with my increased lifting abilities and I lost 3lbs of fat and gained at least that in lean mass (unfortunately this reversed itself after adding in MK-677). So I approached SR the same way. Didn't the mice lose fat and gain muscle while doing nothing? I'm not expecting that but I was expecting with effort in the right directions without starving myself that I'd see something is all. I'm wanting sustainable hacks so I don't have to starve myself the rest of my life to stay lean. If I cut calories even more Ill probobly just gain it back after the cycle after returning to a normal calorie intake because of an altered metabolism. That's what I'm trying to avoid, too.
did you ever think that maybe you had your calories too low? starving yourself will actually not allow you to lose weight and in fact, your likely to gain weight... when you kept your calories higher, you dropped body fat... Now, SR corrects metabolic disorder and increases metabolism but it can only do so much if your not eating enough... just a thought but doing that will actually work against you...