Thank for the advice guys. I' m using a version of Mauro Di Paquale's Anabolic Diet. In this diet you stick to 5%/30%/65% with a 1-1/2 day of high carbs on weekends to replenish glyocen. Supposedly this diet allows you to burn fat, sparing muscle tissue. Obviously, this hasn't worked thus far. My goal was to keep caloric intake the same, but by virtue of the diet, I'm about 300 calories a day under the norm.
Good points about the changes. I started doing cardio consistently about 4 weeks ago, then started the diet two weeks ago. I know some strength loss is inevitable with weight loss, but on bench for instance where I was doing 225 x 6, I now can only do 3 or 4...
I'm 47 years old, so my metabolism is slower then most. I want to maintain cardio for health reasons. I've started running 1.75 miles 2 or 3 times a week (slow pace-11 minute mile), and using an elliptical machine. How about if I switch to walking 2 miles, alternating with the elliptical machine?
I saw at this site the recommendation of 45 grams of carbs a day, with two carb up meals a week. I'm thinking I should try this, and up my calories along with reducing cardio. If I keep losing strength, I'll switch to a maintenance diet for a couple of weeks as recommended by P-funk, and regroup. Sound like a plan?
Paul