Mark, IMP experience, the “I worked out so I can eat more” thing is not cr@p, but total truth !
11 years ago, I lost about 130 lbs of fat, mostly with diet alone, in about 8 months, and that was before I started working out.
At that point I was eating around 2000 cals a day. For me, being skinny felt good for about 1 day.
So then I started working out… And after 6 months, like a freaking madman. Within 1-2 years, I was eating 4500 cals a day just to break even ! That was expensive
But the worst thing about that period of my life, was that it didn’t matter how much I ate, I was always freaking starving !
Still, after 5 years of that, I felt like freaking Superman.
What all of this taught me is, diet is easy. Working out 6 or 7 days a week, both resistance and cardio, is very hard, but ultimately, extremely rewarding.
Now, if I could only get myself to take that first step again… Only this time on the Keto diet, instead of a modified Paleo…
Think I will at least stay more satiated, plus maybe finally be able to go below 10% BF. Best I did was 229lbs @ 11%BF