Thread: Diet for hubby

I'm looking for a decent "cut" diet for the hubby. He's military so he's in OK shape/weight, but he's built stocky. He has a real hard time meeting his weight standard, which has actually gone DOWN since he joined 16 years ago. He "should" be 185 or less accdg to the charts, but really has a hard time getting to 195. He's comfortable in the early 200s, sits at 210 without dieting.

His issue is the belly and chest flab. He can cut it down but has always had a hard time, and hasn't really ever gotten rid of it. He's a little self-conscious in tees that are too thin because of his chest, he thinks he has man-tittys (personally I don't think he's that bad, you can't tell at all in clothes at all but that's what he sees).

He's been an Atkins fan for years, goes on and off it depending on when he has to cut down for a weigh-in. After they lowered his wight standard to 185 (started at 205, then 195 like 7 years after, keeps dropping) he has to pass by body fat percentage. He's at 24%. They tape his waist and neck, and the problem is, he'll lose girth in both, so the math works to his detriment. THere's guys that are SO overweight but make it because their necks are huge.

ANYWAY, he's trying to lose the flab. He broke his wrist a couple years back, has a pin in there, and can't flex his wrist back all the way and has a little trouble with some exercises. He has to do the cardio with his unit. He is a little on the thinner side AFA muscle mass at the moment.

He's 5'9, right now 197 lbs, 24 percent body fat accdg to the military.
Diet: heavy protein, don't know percentages but I can figure that out in a few days if I track for him. I wouldn't call it clean, he eats Atkins but includes hot dogs, low carb tortillas, lots of hamburg and sausages and cheese, few veggies at all. Cheat when he does it is about once a week. Really very few carbs at all.
He's 40.

Find some cutting diets on bodybuilding.com that look like something that he could handle and put him on it lol.